What is critical race theory? Schools, lawmakers, and scholars are divided. - Vox
This mischievous article claims that GOP bills are to try "to stop schools from teaching about racism or any topics that confront America’s history of racial and gender oppression", which is an outright lie.
For example, Texas House Bill 3979 says that teachers "may not be compelled to discuss a particular current event or widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs" (i.e. it's against compelled speech, and unless current affairs is a school subject why would this be controversial?).
It also says that teachers must "strive to explore that topic from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective". In other words, it is against indoctrination (which liberals used to also be against, when they didn't like what students were being indoctrinated with)
It also says that teachers cannot "require, make part of a course, or award a grade or course credit, including extra credit" student political lobbying or activism
Also, teaching the following is banned:
Racial/sexual superiority
Inherent racial/sexual guilt
Advocacy of racial/sexual discrimination
Condemning people based on race/sex
Collective guilt/responsibility based on race/sex
Meritocracy/hard work are racist/sexist
Slavery was the true founding of the US (or otherwise teaching the 1619 project)
Slavery and racism were the authentic founding principles of the US
Opposing almost all of these (certainly, all but the last 3) are views that liberals used to have before Critical Race Theory came along. So the fact that liberals are now upset that you can't teach students racial/sexual superiority reveals how they now support racism and sexism, and the fact that they claim that these bills are against "teaching history" suggests that they don't know what they are talking about, or do and are lying about it.
Similarly (via reddit), in Idaho, public schools are not allowed to teach that:
That any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior;
That individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin; or
That individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin.
Also, "No distinction or classification of students shall be made on account of race or color".
Apparently these are all bad things to mandate, and liberals believe that some sexes, races, ethnicities, religions, colours and national origins are inherently superior or inferior, that people should be adversely treated based on these and that there should be collective responibility based on this.
So, apparently, liberals are saying that we should blame all Muslims for Islamist terrorism that they were not personally responsible for. Oklahoma basically combines Idaho and Florida, together with a prohibition on mandatory diversity training.
Meanwhile, Florida's Rule: 6A-1.094124 states that:
Instruction on the required topics must be factual and objective, and may not suppress or distort significant historical events, such as the Holocaust, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the civil rights movement and the contributions of women, African American and Hispanic people to our country, as already provided in Section 1003.42(2), F.S. Examples of theories that distort historical events and are inconsistent with State Board approved standards include the denial or minimization of the Holocaust, and the teaching of Critical Race Theory, meaning the theory that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but that racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons. Instruction may not utilize material from the 1619 Project and may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence. Instruction must include the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments.
Apparently factual and objective teaching of history without suppression or distortion is a bad thing, and that not teaching that "racism is embedded in American society and its legal systems in order to uphold the supremacy of white persons" is the same as not teaching racism; indeed, a classical definition of racism would hold that teaching *this* is itself racist. Presumably liberals would claim with a straight face that The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits racial discrimination is an evidence of embedded racism to uphold white supremacy, but since teaching is meant to be factual and objective this disqualifies that claim.
The only arguably contentious bit of the state bills "banning Critical Race Theory" is some's stipulations about teaching American independence, but that is clearly a response to the excesses of the 1619 project. Of course, Vox pretends that only conservatives oppose the 1619 project, when in fact many historians have, for example 12 Civil War historians and political scientists who research the Civil War, and a fact checker for the project blew the whistle on his correction being ignored. But whatever it is, this is very different from, as liberals claim, banning discussion of racism or history.
Indeed, even by Vox's description of it, Critical Race Theory is poisonous, since one of the tenets of Critical Race Theory Vox mentions is that "colorblindness, objectivity, and neutrality" are a bad thing.
