My professional life regularly leads me off of the valley’s beaten paths. I have noticed that the farther away from civilized hubs I travel, the more likely I am to see yard signs that read “Save Our Children.”
Of this otherwise uplifting message, I began to suspect foul play when these signs popped up next to Trump banners — the biggest bully in recorded history, barely edging out Herod and Ivan the Terrible. Further investigation revealed the signs are intended to oppose something called Critical Race Theory. Friends of the Republic, this debate is utterly stupid.
I’m not sure what is more amusing; Your oversimplified, explanation of what Critical Race Theory (CRT) is (or isn’t), your attempt to sweep it away as though it’s a figment of our imagination, or your overblown opinion of yourself as some kind of intellectual giant, and urban sophisticate.
First and foremost, CRT is very real and has been being actively taught in all of our “Institutions of Higher Learning” for some time. Along with “Social Justice” and “Activism”. It wasn’t until the George Floyd incident that it burst onto the scene in the Primary and Secondary public schools across the Nation. How do I know this? Because after my retirement from the military (22yrs), I worked as a school administrator (17yrs) from which I retired less than 5 months ago.
Immediately after the “Summer of Love” riots began we all had to attend, “Emergency Meetings”, read all the latest books, like White Fragility, attend lectures, seminars, and retreats. We even hire a consulting firm (a topic for another time) to help us to “untangle the web of our own White Privilege”. All in the name of Critical Race Theory, Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It was almost as if “on cue” we would be forced to adopt this “new paradigm”. And there would be no questioning, turning back, or debate about it.
What we can agree on, is this; CRT is the worst type of pseudo-intellectual clap-trap to be foisted upon us since post-modernism reared its ugly head.
Luckily, due to the last year or so of online learning, parents got a glimpse of nonsense being presented to their children firsthand. And, as it turns out, realize just how divisive, corrosive, and frankly insane this stuff is.
And, while we all know about your high opinion of yourself, based on this, and other previous tombs, you are no Dr. Sokal.
By the way, there are some very bright, “bumpkins” in the surrounding environs who could run circles around you without losing a beat, and they read actual books too.
I’ll leave off my alphabet soup of credentials. Nobody cares...
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Oh Q,
I’m not sure what is more amusing; Your oversimplified, explanation of what Critical Race Theory (CRT) is (or isn’t), your attempt to sweep it away as though it’s a figment of our imagination, or your overblown opinion of yourself as some kind of intellectual giant, and urban sophisticate.
First and foremost, CRT is very real and has been being actively taught in all of our “Institutions of Higher Learning” for some time. Along with “Social Justice” and “Activism”. It wasn’t until the George Floyd incident that it burst onto the scene in the Primary and Secondary public schools across the Nation. How do I know this? Because after my retirement from the military (22yrs), I worked as a school administrator (17yrs) from which I retired less than 5 months ago.
Immediately after the “Summer of Love” riots began we all had to attend, “Emergency Meetings”, read all the latest books, like White Fragility, attend lectures, seminars, and retreats. We even hire a consulting firm (a topic for another time) to help us to “untangle the web of our own White Privilege”. All in the name of Critical Race Theory, Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It was almost as if “on cue” we would be forced to adopt this “new paradigm”. And there would be no questioning, turning back, or debate about it.
What we can agree on, is this; CRT is the worst type of pseudo-intellectual clap-trap to be foisted upon us since post-modernism reared its ugly head.
Luckily, due to the last year or so of online learning, parents got a glimpse of nonsense being presented to their children firsthand. And, as it turns out, realize just how divisive, corrosive, and frankly insane this stuff is.
And, while we all know about your high opinion of yourself, based on this, and other previous tombs, you are no Dr. Sokal.
By the way, there are some very bright, “bumpkins” in the surrounding environs who could run circles around you without losing a beat, and they read actual books too.
I’ll leave off my alphabet soup of credentials. Nobody cares...
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