John Stossel
Glenn Youngkin recently was elected Virginia’s governor partly because he promised to ban teaching of CRT.
CRT stands for critical race theory, which argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy.
Before Youngkin’s surprise victory, the media mocked him for complaining about CRT.
NBC’s Nicolle Wallace said it isn’t even taught in public schools. “That is like us banning the ghosts!” she laughed.
She is wrong.
In my new video, journalist Asra Nomani reveals some rather creepy CRT lessons that are taught in many schools.
Nomani filed Freedom of Information Act requests that forced school districts to reveal how they pay consultants to spread critical race theory.
“We found 300-plus contracts,” says Nomani. “Every day, I’m getting a new contract. For them to deny it is just part of their campaign.”
A CNN guest, history teacher Keziah Ridgeway, admits that CRT influences how some teachers teach. “That’s a good thing, right?” she says. “Because race and racism is literally the building blocks of this country.”
Really? The building block?
No!
America does have a long, nasty history of racism. Some racism persists. But it’s not the “building block.”
“They want to look at all of society through issues of race,” complains Nomani. That’s “propaganda that’s claiming our children.”
“Claiming the children?” I push back. “That’s exaggeration.”
She pulled out some of the children’s books that are now part of the curriculum at some schools.
“Woke Baby” teaches kids to be “a good revolutionary.”
“A Is for Activist” reads like a union recruiting manual. “M is for ‘Megaphones Marching.’ … Hooray! It Must be May Day!”
“Not My Idea” calls “whiteness” a deal with the devil. It portrays a white person with a pointy tail and goat hooves and tells children that they sell their souls because “whiteness” gives them “stolen land” and “stolen riches.”
The author, Anastasia Higginbotham, says, “I made a book for white children that encourages them to connect with their heartbreak about racism.”
Nomani says, “Just imagine if a black child was to get a book that said ‘blackness is a bad deal?’ … Shame is used as a lever of control over people. It should not be done with children.”
“America has a history of racism,” I say.
“We have to confront it,” she says. “But America does not have a monopoly on racism. I come from a nation of people of ‘color,’ and they are racist.”
India, her home country, had a nasty caste system for thousands of years.
Slavery began in the Middle East. It thrived in Africa long before slaves were brought to America. Americans (along with Brits, the French and Mexicans) actually helped end the practice.
This is “state-sponsored indoctrination,” says Nomani. “It is a bigotry that they are teaching. … It’s just so immoral. I am a brown Muslim woman, an immigrant in America. I know more freedoms in this country than I could in any Muslim country in the world.”
“But they’re not in a Muslim country,” I point out. “They’re in America, and there is still racism here.”
“But to suggest that this is all of America is as racist and bigoted … as being racist and bigoted against people of color,” she responds.
People need to care about this, says Nomani, “because it’s the taxpayers that are funding this.”
Some conservatives want to ban the teaching of CRT. That’s not a good idea. Government shouldn’t be banning ideas or taking choices away from teachers. Bans shield students from important topics.
A better solution is legalizing school choice.
Let parents take our tax money to a school we choose.
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“They” will do anything to produce more and more chaos.
Stossel will never mention who “they” are.
Hardly anyone does, gatsby. Hardly anyone dares.
(((They)))?
The ever present, ubiquitous, “they”.
‘..CRT stands for critical race theory..’
On the planet I was synthesised, CRT stood for Cathode Ray Tube. We used them to crate devices called ‘oscilloscopes’, ‘monitors’ and ‘television sets’, as well as many other extremely complex scientific devices.
Unfortunately, the invention of the ‘television set’ (or more specifically, the control and the quality of the information it projected), was what ultimately doomed our race, and our planet.
Sadly, very few of us escaped the chaos.
We elected to come to planet Earth because it had dolphins, a sure sign of intelligent life.
However upon arriving on Earth, we were terribly disappointed to discover humans were the dominant life form (we’d assumed they were just a kind of talking animal), and had adopted similar technology and was being led by the nose by the same force down the same road.
The similarities are striking.
‘Out of the frying pan and into the fire’ it would seem, is a universal constant.
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Dolphins Smart??? Flipper, yes. Don Shula, no. Blew it to Namath in SB III. After Marino’s rookie year (83?), the Fish were mediocre at the best. Just because he wons a bunch of games over a too long career (a la George Halas) is no excuse. At least Halas founded the NFL. And his heirs still own it, not the owners. They just run it.
Bear got it right when he quit, knew when it was over. Bowden didn’t. Paterno didn’t. And protected a rapist pedo. F*** State Penn.
INSANITY: California Op-Ed Suggests Outlawing Parenthood
“My solution — making raising your own children illegal — is simple, and while we wait for the legislation to pass, we can act now: the rich and poor should trade kids, and homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors.”
https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/01/14/insanity-california-op-ed-suggests-outlawing-parenthood/
The first time (that I’ve heard) they’ve stated their intent openly. This has been the intent since the 1960s. First “Women’t Lib”, followed by more militant feminism. Then, gay rights. Then gay marriage. Then Trans rights. Soon to be followed by pedo rights.
All while constricting parent’s options in the raising of their own children by crushing the standard of living such that both parents needed full time employment to provide for their children. Compulsory Day Care for said children. Limited time and opportunity for parents to have input into how their own children were being raised by those “in loco parentis”. Declining interest of parents in actual parenting. Increased involvement of CPS kidnap squads for any manner of perceived “problem” from the point of view of a social justice warrior fresh out of grad school with a sociology degree.
All with the obvious — VERY VERY OBVIOUS — purpose of making all children the the property of the State.
And no one noticed.
Why do parents want their children in the daily custody of these racists? Why do the Chicago’s parents want the teachers back? Seriously, can you honestly trust these racists with your children? The time for government monopoly education has passed…if there was ever a time. Parents need to finally show that they care, and forcing the horrible teachers back into the classroom is not the way. Time to walk away and work to abolish the system that hates your children and their race.
Liberty,The parents only care about the “free” babysitting service. Most don’t know and don’t want to know shit about what goes on in schools.
True indeed, but it simply amazes me when parents DEMAND that teachers who simply do not want to teach anymore (but surely want to get paid) be FORCED back into the classroom to have access to their children and their minds (and bodies). Seriously? Its like being upset that the child molesters that were sexually abusing your children were finally arrested and you complain that their incarceration will screw up your lives because you have no daycare services so want these folks back. Oh, and heaven forbid they have to pay full price for the service without the rest of society being STOLEN FROM to help out. Why did you give birth to these children after all???????
There’s no longer any way to understand why most Americans even have children.
Nicole Wallace is indeed wrong but she is also a liar. She knows that CRT is taught under any number of misleading names. There is little value in debating with communists. I agree with a lot of what Stoessel says but intellectual engagement with communists is a waste of time.
You’d have more productive conversation talking to a broken toaster.