Here is how the title question comes up. Lately, some parents and political commentators in America have been complaining that grade school kids are being taught “Critical Race Theory”. This may be a misuse of the term “critical race theory”, but that's not important. The actual criticism is that kids are being given lessons that are racist (against whites) and anti-American. When they’re not busy caviling about the use of the phrase “CRT”, the left say that the schools are not teaching racism or anti-Americanism but are simply teaching accurate history. A lot of bad stuff in fact happened in America’s history, such as slavery, Jim Crow, dispossession of the Native Americans, etc. You don’t object to teaching the truth, do you? You’re not for lying or covering up our history, are you?
Can Teaching the Truth Be Racist?
Can Teaching the Truth Be Racist?
Can Teaching the Truth Be Racist?
Here is how the title question comes up. Lately, some parents and political commentators in America have been complaining that grade school kids are being taught “Critical Race Theory”. This may be a misuse of the term “critical race theory”, but that's not important. The actual criticism is that kids are being given lessons that are racist (against whites) and anti-American. When they’re not busy caviling about the use of the phrase “CRT”, the left say that the schools are not teaching racism or anti-Americanism but are simply teaching accurate history. A lot of bad stuff in fact happened in America’s history, such as slavery, Jim Crow, dispossession of the Native Americans, etc. You don’t object to teaching the truth, do you? You’re not for lying or covering up our history, are you?