Tag: critical race theory

Live Q&A: DOJ Targeting Parents for Harassing School Admins; Google Ordered to Track Certain Users

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is defending its agreement to begin targeting parents accused of harassing or threatening school administrators amid growing tensions around critical race theory topics being taught in schools, in addition to vaccine and mask mandates. And in other news, the U.S. government allegedly gave secret orders to Google to begin tracking…


Rep. Bob Good: Teaching CRT Violates Students’ Civil Rights

Teaching critical race theory (CRT) in federally funded institutions would violate a student’s civil rights and should be punishable by law, Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told NTD. On Sept. 30, Good introduced a bill named ‘‘Defending Students’ Civil Rights Act of 2021,’’ (pdf) outlawing teaching CRT in public educational institutions. “One of the most dangerous…


The Fallacy of ‘Whitelash’

Commentary In Woody Allen’s classic film “Annie Hall,” we encounter the paranoia of the lead character Alvy Singer, who spots anti-Semitism even where there is no anti-Semitism to be found. At one point he tells his friend Rob that an NBC executive kept asking him, “Jew eat?” Of course, the man was asking Alvy, “Did…


The Truth Behind Critical Race Theory

In this episode of “Counterculture” with Danielle D’Souza-Gill, she explains the history of critical race theory and its origins. Where did this theory come from and how did it become so powerful in America? D’Souza-Gill dives deeply into how critical race theory was latched onto by Marxist professors and the radical left, and how we…


North Carolina County to Discipline, Fire Teachers Who Say America and Founders Are Racist

A North Carolina school board has adopt a policy that would discipline or dismiss teachers if they incorporate critical race theory (CRT) into their teaching of the history of the United States. The Johnston County school board on Friday unanimously voted to approve an amended code of ethics policy after the county’s Republican-run board of…


Maud Maron on NYC Schools Pushing Critical Race Theory; the Assault on Merit; and the Emerging ‘Community of the Canceled’

“You can teach kids how to treat each other with respect and dignity without trying to racially essentialize kids.” Today, I sit down with Maud Maron, an elected New York public school council member and public defender who was fired from her job at the Legal Aid Society after speaking out against race essentialism in…


School Boards Ask Biden Admin to Treat Parents’ Protests as ‘Domestic Terrorism’

The national organization of public school boards is calling on the Biden administration to protect its members from “angry mobs” of parents who protest against COVID-19 restrictions placed on students and the teaching of critical race theory, characterizing the protests as “domestic terrorism.” The National School Boards Association (NSBA), which represents more than 90,000 school…


Mary Grabar: The New York Times Falsified History With Its ‘1619 Project’

American schools are teaching a new form of revisionist history called critical race theory, and part of this comes from the “1619 Project” published by The New York Times. The problem with the “1619 Project,” however, is that much of what it presents is false history. To learn more about these falsehoods, and about the…


Ostracizing University Faculty With Nonconforming Opinions Has Become a Common Trend: Constitutional Lawyer

Having a dissenting view within the prevailing orthodoxies of many universities today can lead to “a death by a thousand cuts,” according to a lawyer who specializes in constitutional law. Samantha Harris, with Allen Harris Law in Connecticut, represents Stephen Porter, a professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Porter filed a lawsuit on Sept….


Despite Bans on CRT, Educators Are Teaching Other Educators How to ‘Back-Door It’ Into the Classroom

Despite the passage of laws in some states banning Critical Race Theory (CRT) from being taught in schools, some educators are teaching other educators how to “back-door it” into the classrooms. A teacher in Iowa posted a video teaching other educators how to circumvent the ban on teaching Critical Race Theory in her state. In…