“Critical Race Theory” Crackpot Communism

Why do I say that we need to lay siege to our institutions? Because of what has happened to our institutions since the 1960s.

The 1960s saw the rise of new and radical ideologies in America that now seem commonplace—ideologies based on ideas like identity politics and cultural revolution. There is a direct line between those ideas born in the ’60s and the public policies being adopted today in leftist-run cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago.

The leftist dream of a working-class rebellion in America fizzled after the ’60s. By the mid-1970s, radical groups like the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground had faded from prominence. But the leftist dreamers didn’t give up. Abandoning hope of a Russian-style revolution, they settled on a more sophisticated strategy—waging a revolution not of the proletariat, but of the elites, and specifically of the knowledge elites. It would proceed not by taking over the means of production, but by taking control of education and culture—a strategy that German Marxist Rudi Dutschke, a student activist in the 1960s, called “the long march through the institutions.”

The Ministry of National Defence’s Advisory Panel on Systemic Racism and Discrimination recently produced a somewhat horrifying report. This was probably inevitable; there is not a significant number of genuine racists in Canada, nor can Canadian institutions be considered racist. This is just an abrasive cliche that has become faddish for all those who for whatever reason seek to dramatize, or at least aggravate, internal tensions in the country.

Looks as though Pavlik Morozov, the famous child snitch who turned in his parents to Russia’s commissars and became a Soviet hero for it, is still serving as a role model in woke public schools of Washington, D.C.

Parents at a Washington, D.C., elementary school were livid after the school shared an “Antiracism Fight Club” guidebook that asked them to evaluate their own racism and advocate removing police from schools.

Appallingly bad critical race theory science fiction showcases the ideology’s toxicity.

One of the more interesting periodicals of the hard-left, Jacobin, used to have a book review column for old and new conservative titles called “Books we read, so you don’t have to.” It included mostly mass-market polemics the outlet’s average reader would find especially triggering. If such a column existed for an audience of the opposite orientation, one title that would have to make an appearance is Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by the late Harvard law professor, Justice Department attorney, and critical race theory pioneer Derrick Bell.

The book, published in 1992, is considered a founding text for the CRT movement. This is odd, as it’s not a jargon-heavy, law-based tome, but a collection of short stories, most of them science fiction-based. If you’re curious how sci-fi might translate CRT’s heavily abstract and legalistic ideas, the short answer is that it doesn’t. The stories are breathtakingly bad.

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – In a meeting held in late March, Canada’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Patty Hajdu claimed that the “impacts” from the “colonization” of the nation, which was mainly done by European settlers, are a “stark” reminder of the work that needs to be done to decolonize the country.

“Each of these days serves as a stark reminder of the impacts of colonization, stark inequities, and trauma,” said Hajdu during a March 25 meeting of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

Hajdu declared that the impacts of colonization “continue to have such a significant impact on First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities across the country.”

During the pandemic, Tracie Spiegel’s son and most of his Howard County, Md., classmates received virtually no mathematics instruction for five months.

What little ineffective virtual instruction he did receive didn’t prevent his grade from plummeting from an A to a C. So when he returned to the classroom as a high-school freshman, he became incredibly frustrated that he and his peers were asked to spend 40 minutes every Monday on so-called social-emotional learning (SEL).