OPINION: Critical Race Theory is poisoning our military
If soldiers, sailors, and airmen/women are taught their NCO or commanding officer dislikes them because of their melanin level, winning a battle, much less a war, becomes problematic.
Timothy Furnish | Faculty, Reinhardt University
Thursday, November 3, 2022 8:48 AM
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Recently I wrote about one of the worst ideas to come from higher education: defunding the police. I now want to examine another: Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT is perhaps even more dangerous to America, especially if it continues to penetrate our military.
CRT, like “defund the police,” is structurally similar to Marxism. But instead of focusing on the founder of Communism’s “class struggle” between the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production) and the proletariat (lower-class wage-earners), it focuses on the “racial struggle” between Black and White Americans.
The core concept of CRT is “systemic racism,” the notion that racism pervades American institutions even in the absence of explicitly racist laws or animus. This concept is now firmly embedded in the Democrat Party platform. And President Biden signed an Executive Order mandating its promotion in the federal government.
These developments come on the heels of the military progressively adopting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into its training initiatives.
https://campusreform.org/article?id=20551
