{"id":68928,"date":"2021-06-11T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68928"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:23:21","slug":"68928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68928","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Bans Critical Race Theory in Schools.<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Florida Department of Education approved a policy that explicitly bans Marxist critical race theory (CRT) from public schools.<\/p>\n

The original rule, proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), did not explicitly condemn critical race theory, but barred teachers from attempting \u201cto indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final version, however, prohibits \u201cfiction or theory masquerading as facts, such as critical race theory.\u201d By voice vote, the seven-member Board of Education adopted an amendment sponsored by board member Tom Grady. The board then unanimously passed the amended version, Just the News reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstruction on the required topics must be factual and objective, and may not suppress or distort significant historical events, such as the Holocaust, 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,\u201d the proposed rule read.<\/p>\n

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The Florida Education Association (FEA), the state\u2019s largest teacher\u2019s union, opposed the inclusion of the word \u201cindoctrinate\u201d in the rule because partisan ideologues can interpret that word in various ways. FEA also called on the board to expand the definition of \u201csignificant historical events\u201d beyond the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

While the board did not remove the word \u201cindoctrinate,\u201d Grady\u2019s amendment added language addressing the Civil War, Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and other \u201chard truths\u201d of history.<\/p>\n

Critical race theory justifies blatant racism in the name of promoting \u201cequity.\u201d One of its architects has even supported racial discrimination to counter historic discrimination and has called for a totalitarian bureaucracy to enforce his vision of \u201cequity.\u201d This new racism masquerades as \u201canti-racist,\u201d but it judges people according to the color of their skin, not the content of their character.<\/p>\n

Marxist thinkers invented CRT in order to upend society by claiming that hidden racism pervades American institutions. CRT teaches people to seize on any racial disparity as ipso facto proof of racial discrimination, despite the clear prohibitions on racial discrimination in federal law. Advocates claim that the American status quo is racist \u2014 if not \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d \u2014 so extreme measures to reverse historic injustices are the only \u201canti-racist\u201d option.<\/p>\n

Since American society must be secretly racist, CRT advocates attribute various aspects of society to the nefarious impact of \u201cwhiteness.\u201d The Smithsonian briefly published a \u201cteaching tool\u201d infographic on \u201cwhiteness.\u201d That infographic claimed that the nuclear family, science, capitalism, the Judeo-Christian tradition, individualism, \u201cobjective, rational linear thinking,\u201d and even values such as \u201cbe polite\u201d are aspects of oppressive whiteness. The Smithsonian rightly removed the graphic after facing criticism, but this incident illustrates just how mainstream CRT has become.<\/p>\n

The demonization of \u201cwhiteness\u201d has often translated into a demonization of white people. Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, an associate professor of practical theology at Mercer University, published a devotional that included a prayer asking God to \u201cplease help me to hate white people. Or at least to want to hate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

CRT is spreading throughout American schools at all levels. When a superintendent in Oregon said CRT-style \u201canti-racism\u201d training \u201cisn\u2019t optional anymore\u201d and suggested that teachers who disagree should seek work elsewhere, school board members defended him, as did the Oregon Department of Education.<\/p>\n

Yet parents, teachers, and elected leaders are fighting back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woke class wants to teach kids to hate each other, rather than teaching them how to read, but we will not let them bring nonsense ideology into Florida\u2019s schools,\u201d DeSantis said in a statement on the finalized rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Governor of Florida, I love this state, and I love my country. I find it unthinkable that there are other people in positions of leadership in the federal government who believe that we should teach kids to hate our country. We will not stand for it here in Florida. I\u2019m proud that we are taking action today to ensure our state continues to have the greatest educational system in the nation,\u201d the governor added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo child should be classified as a \u2018victim\u2019 or \u2018oppressor\u2019 based on their race or ethnicity,\u201d DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw told Fox News. \u201cRace essentialism in any form is destructive, especially in a diverse society where each person should be judged only by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n

CRT advocates claim that Republican efforts to prevent schools from teaching CRT are whitewashing history, removing the painful parts of America\u2019s past from the curriculum. This is not the case, however. Hillsdale College required me and my fellow students to engage with the ugly truths of American slavery and the causes of the Civil War while at the same time heralding the values of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal and enjoy the same fundamental rights. We wrestled with America\u2019s ugly history without embracing racialist ideas like CRT.<\/p>\n

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