Controversy around critical race theory has grown—recently expanding beyond race to matters of sex and gender. But what is really happening in schools?
With the help of Mr Rufo, now a director of an “initiative” onat the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank, critical race theory, once an obscure academic topic, became a prominent Republican issue in a matter of weeks. Mr Rufo appeared on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson show in September 2020. “It is absolutely astonishing how critical race theory has pervaded every institution in the federal government,” he said, and was being “weaponised against the American people”.
Some progressive policies have clearly gone too far. San Francisco’s school board is a notable example. Rather than striving to get children back into schools during the pandemic, it fretted about renaming 44 schools named after figures linked to historical racism or oppression. The list included Abraham Lincoln. Voters fired three members of the board.
I can describe the academic discipline of Critical Race Theory which, in many ways, is irrelevant to this conversation…
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