No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t About Teaching That ‘Slavery Is Real’Parents who oppose teaching critical race theory in schools have nothing against teaching America’s checkered history of race relations.BY: JULIAN ADORNEY
OCTOBER 06, 2022
Prominent voices continue to frame the debate over whether critical race theory (CRT) should be taught in schools as a debate over whether we should teach accurate racial history.
A few days ago, in an interview with Time magazine, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone (author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity”) said of the controversy: “…one of the major reactions is this resistance to the teaching of the past. … Slavery is real. Racial domination is real. But they’re doing their best to deny it, to affirm the innocence of whiteness.”
This is a strawman attack. Few Americans of any stripe or generation object to teaching about slavery and Jim Crow. The problem with CRT in schools is there’s a lot more to it than just teaching America’s checkered history of race relations, and it’s this “more” that many parents are objecting to.
For starters, CRT is essentially postmodernism. Stephen Sawchuk, associate editor of Education Week, notes in a piece praising CRT that, “Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought.”
Postmodernism is the idea that there is no truth, no universal morality, and no reality except what we create. There are no facts because everything is socially constructed. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica’s entry on postmodernism, it dismisses as “naive realism” the idea that “there is an objective natural reality.”
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/06/critical-race-theory-isnt-about-teaching-that-slavery-is-real/