CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION # 2 OF 2

 CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION # 2 of 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOG, "CINOPS BE GONE: - FRI. JUNE 25, 2021

Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2021,  Free Expression: By Gerard Baker

"Critical Race Theory is the Opposite of Education"

 

    This is the essence of a liberal education: the nurturing and development of independent minds by erudite teachers of various ideological persuasion through exposure to the widest range of intellectual inquiry. It is what made England, and then America, the greatest force for civilizational progress the world has known. And it is in peril.

    The crisis engulfing our institutions represents the struggle for ascendancy of an ideology that is literally the antithesis of the educational values that have driven the West's unrivaled economic, social and technological progress for the past few centuries.

 

    Critical race theory - and its and its variable postmodern cousins is not some interesting interpretation of social and political history that we are free to examine, embrace or discard. It proponents do not seek to frame a critique of modern America to be tested alongside alternatives.

    They insist that a traditionally liberal approach to evaluating the merits of competing ideas is itself an outgrowth of an illegitimate system of oppression. Rejection of their critique is the product of false consciousness, since critical thought is itself invalid, the product of white male hegemony.

 

    This isn't really education at all, not in the sense in which the term has been understood in the post-enlightenment era. It is closer to pre-enlightenment religious instruction: the imparting of doctrinal truth with the practical aim of saving souls and reordering the world. Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where the practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds.They have taken to heart the old Jesuit maxim about the first seven years of life. 

    There are encouraging signs that this recent migration itself may be sowing the seeds of its own destruction. Parent across the country and the political spectrum are vocally resisting. In local elections voter have seized the opportunity to oust the ideologues pushing this un-American extremism on their children.

 

    Growing numbers of professionals, however eager to display their progressive credentials, know that they owe much of their success to a steeping in the cannon of Western of Western thought and are growing uncomfortable with the idea that their children might now be taught that Ibram X. Kendi has more to offer than John Locke or Jane Austen.

    Most telling, the attempts by the ideology's defenders to redefine critical race theory suggest they know how indefensible it is. Efforts by multiple states to restrain its spread have been falsely characterized by journalist and progressives as attempts to stop children from learning about slavery and segregation. When you have to disguise your own ideology to purge it of its noxious core, you know you're losing.

     I learned economics from a Marxist. But the most important thing he taught me was that open inquiry was the antidote to ruinous extremism. It's a lesson we may finally be relearning.

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WINNING THE CULTURAL WAR

1. You attend religious services on Saturday or Sunday. Then make sure that one or two from your group is attending: a City Hall or School Board Meeting the following week. 

2. Be knowledgeable that Planned Parenthood and Hollywood are a deadly and destructive influences on all Americans, especially Black Americans.

 

3. The News Media's deliberate betrayal of the truth, common sense and outright censorship in reporting the news is an act of treason against the American people. We are seriously burdened with an irresponsible press.  The New York Times promotion of the 1619 Project is an act of Child Intellectual Abuse and the matter should be brought before the Supreme Court for treason to our historic laws and Constitution of the U.S.A.

4. What can we learn and what must we do to recall what happened in America on Wed, June 23, 2021. 

# 1 - Arvada, Colorado: We viewed the cold-blooded killing of a Police Officer. The suspect stated, "I have always hated the Police."

# 2  - Chicago, Illinois:  From the streets of Chicago, a father and mother in their twenties are stopped and pulled out of  their car & deliberately murdered. The baby and toddler in the car are now orphans. 

George H. Kubeck