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‘We Don’t Want to Make White Kids Feel Bad for Being White’
History (and life) can give Black children an inferiority complex, but you won’t find conservative parents protesting over that.
You can tell a lot about people by their priorities. Guns and climate change are two of the biggest threats children of today will face in their lifetime, yet some parents never lose a minute of sleep over such trivialities. Why worry about that when trans girls competing in school sports against cisgender girls, mask mandates, and Critical Race Theory are literally the end of the world?
In recent months, CRT seems to have become the scourge most likely to cause sleeplessness in conservative households. It’s like they’ve conveniently forgotten what “theory” even means. When I was a kid, we were taught about the once-popular theory that the world was flat. To my knowledge, none of my classmates went looking for the edge of the earth in hopes of finding a good place to jump. I don’t know how much theorizing second-graders can handle — or how many second-grade teachers are actually interrupting reading, writing, and spelling lessons to introduce the intricacies of CRT. However, if conservative parents were the awesome role models they like to tell us they are, there wouldn’t be any theory an inept teacher…
