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The following is an excerpt from an Imprimis article Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It by Christopher F. Rufo.

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HOW IT WORKS

What does critical race theory look like in practice? Last year, I authored a series of reports focused on critical race theory in the federal government. The FBI was holding workshops on intersectionality theory. The Department of Homeland Security was telling white employees they were committing “microinequities” and had been “socialized into oppressor roles.” The Treasury Department held a training session telling staff members that “virtually all white people contribute to racism” and that they must convert “everyone in the federal government” to the ideology of “antiracism.” And the Sandia National Laboratories, which designs America’s nuclear arsenal, sent white male executives to a three-day reeducation camp, where they were told that “white male culture” was analogous to the “KKK,” “white supremacists,” and “mass killings.” The executives were then forced to renounce their “white male privilege” and write letters of apology to fictitious women and people of color.

This year, I produced another series of reports focused on critical race theory in education. In Cupertino, California, an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” In Springfield, Missouri, a middle school forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” based on the idea that straight, white, English-speaking, Christian males are members of the oppressor class and must atone for their privilege and “covert white supremacy.” In Philadelphia, an elementary school forced fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to free 1960s radical Angela Davis from prison, where she had once been held on charges of murder. And in Seattle, the school district told white teachers that they are guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”

I’m just one investigative journalist, but I’ve developed a database of more than 1,000 of these stories. When I say that critical race theory is becoming the operating ideology of our public institutions, it is not an exaggeration—from the universities to bureaucracies to k-12 school systems, critical race theory has permeated the collective intelligence and decision-making process of American government, with no sign of slowing down.

This is a revolutionary change. When originally established, these government institutions were presented as neutral, technocratic, and oriented towards broadly-held perceptions of the public good. Today, under the increasing sway of critical race theory and related ideologies, they are being turned against the American people. This isn’t limited to the permanent bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., but is true as well of institutions in the states, even in red states, and it is spreading to county public health departments, small Midwestern school districts, and more. This ideology will not stop until it has devoured all of our institutions.

FUTILE RESISTANCE

Thus far, attempts to halt the encroachment of critical race theory have been ineffective. There are a number of reasons for this.

First, too many Americans have developed an acute fear of speaking up about social and political issues, especially those involving race. According to a recent Gallup poll, 77 percent of conservatives are afraid to share their political beliefs publicly. Worried about getting mobbed on social media, fired from their jobs, or worse, they remain quiet, largely ceding the public debate to those pushing these anti-American ideologies. Consequently, the institutions themselves become monocultures: dogmatic, suspicious, and hostile to a diversity of opinion. Conservatives in both the federal government and public school systems have told me that their “equity and inclusion” departments serve as political offices, searching for and stamping out any dissent from the official orthodoxy.

Second, critical race theorists have constructed their argument like a mousetrap. Disagreement with their program becomes irrefutable evidence of a dissenter’s “white fragility,” “unconscious bias,” or “internalized white supremacy.” I’ve seen this projection of false consciousness on their opponents play out dozens of times in my reporting. Diversity trainers will make an outrageous claim—such as “all whites are intrinsically oppressors” or “white teachers are guilty of spirit murdering black children”—and then when confronted with disagreement, they adopt a patronizing tone and explain that participants who feel “defensiveness” or “anger” are reacting out of guilt and shame. Dissenters are instructed to remain silent, “lean into the discomfort, and accept their “complicity in white supremacy.”

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Read the entire article: Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It

How can this kind of thing be happening in America?! This is sick! It is just so shocking and so evil, it is just hard to believe. Could you coerce me into doing something like this? Absolutely not! My job is not that important to me! My life is not that important to me! To me this is analogous to someone taking their own feces and rubbing them in your face and telling you to eat them if you want to keep your job. This is abuse and humiliation of the most shocking order! And it is happening right here in America! How could things have come to this in America? How could any decent person allow this kind of thing to happen?! How could things have gone this far without a great, angry, uprising?! Just what does it take to make White Americans angry? I think they would suffer any kind of indignity to keep their jobs.

This is no kind of civilized country! This is no kind of country for anyone to live in! Someone get angry, please! Really angry!

We are dealing here with a sick, frightening, and dangerous ideology. These people behind this are sick!

For me, there would be a way out. I would leave the country. For many people, it might not be that easy. Our parents and ancestors built this country and this is what the liberals have turned it into. They have turned it into something unlivable!

In the past many American men were drafted to fight in various wars such as World War I, World War II, Korean war, Vietnamese war, etc. They complied and fought. Many died. Right now I can see a far more worthy thing to fight for, to give your life for if necessary, than any of those wars we fought!

On seeing what is now going on in America, I am willing to question my most basic of political assumptions. People should not be allowed to teach these kinds of ideas in any country! It should be illegal. There should be limits on what people can teach. I have loathsome, detestable, evil creeps all around me that are wielding great power! In a good country such people would be sent to prison. How did we ever get to this point?! In my opinion, a good country would be one based squarely on Christian values and only open to people sharing those values. I don’t believe in diversity!

We are now 50 years after the Hippie days of the 1960's. We have been progressing a little at a time down the liberal road and this is where we are now. America is sick! The western world is sick! Really sick! It has abandoned Christianity and this is where it has taken it.

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