Critical Race Theory: Understanding and Fighting Back

Have you ever praised Mussolini because he achieved the task of having trains run on time? Or have you ever taken a trip to the local library and mulled over passages from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Keimf, wondering to yourself whether he might have had some good points if he had been just a little more “woke”? 

If you have, please seek help. These are just a few of the absurd ideas that my new favorite author, James Lindsay, managed to get published in academic journals in 2017 and 2018 as part of a hoax called the Grievance Studies Affair. The Wikipedia page on this episode is both hilarious and insightful. I encourage all readers to check it out. It totally exposes the activism hidden behind a veneer of so-called “education” in schools across the country. 

The reason I bring up James Lindsay is because many of you have contacted me about Critical Race Theory or “CRT” in North Carolina schools. This is a racist ideology that teaches that the United States is a systemically racist country and that status in life is determined largely by skin color. Dr. Lindsay has been on the forefront of explaining the origins, motives, and method for this movement. He does so in lectures, essays, podcasts, books, and at his blog, NewDiscourses.com.  

Have you ever thought that modern “cancel culture” looks a lot like witch burning? Sometimes it feels like we are back in medieval times. There is a good reason why. 

In a June 2020 article titled “Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice,” Dr. Lindsay explains that the current “Social Justice” movement is akin to a religion. It teaches the “original sin” of slavery and allows adherents to form “moral tribes” complete with social identities and moral codes. The ideology also seeks to empower Social Justice values by placing them in institutions like schools and businesses. 

This is why the “woke” have fought so hard to “cancel” any dissenters. In this article, Lindsay highlights a terrifying point: “they’ve taken over our greatest institutions for producing and transmitting knowledge is no small point. Religions in secular sociopolitical environments are forced to treat their beliefs as beliefs. Social Justice has arranged things such that it can treat its beliefs as knowledge.” 

The “Social Justice” movement is not the Civil Rights Movement. It is an ideology that does not require facts or reason or the scientific method. Lindsay makes this point across his work: pointing out the absurdity of people who view science “as a social construct,” the emphasis on “lived experience” in social justice literature, and even questioning the idea of systemic racism itself. It is not real education, so why are we paying for it? 

What can this lead to? New Discourses give us clues in another gripping article titled “Iconoclasm as a Prelude to Woke Horrors?” In this article, Lindsay writes about the politically-motivated destruction  that has historically preceded violence. He writes: “By far, the greatest danger in burning books and destroying statues is that it dehumanizes the persons or peoples represented by them.”

This article was written in June 2020, at the height of the BLM riots and Democrat calls to defund the police. “Woke” rioters were destroying property and taking over downtowns in large cities. The rhetoric from left wing politicians and the media was dehumanizing toward conservatives. Who knows where the chaos would have gone if not for the brave souls in law enforcement. 

The Democrats did not meet their expectations in that November’s election, and many blamed the “defund the police” movement and the summer for the poor performance. Now that the movement has lost steam, we must work diligently to destroy it lest it comes back stronger and more violent. 

How will we defeat this horrible, anti-American movement? Lindsay has produced an enormous body of work during the past few years, but this is one point that he has written less about. But as he has grown as the leading expert in this field, so has the backlash against Critical Race Theory and the “woke” movement. 

One of the few good outcomes, of the Pandemic, is that parents had an opportunity to see what’s being taught to their children. It was not a pretty sight.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools paid $25,000 to Ibram Kendi, a leader in the CRT movement. He advocates for racial discrimination. He wrote, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy for present discrimination is future discrimination. The theory also teaches white children that they are privileged and oppressors. It also teaches black children they are victims and oppressed. Kendi also expresses many other beliefs that can’t be healthy for any children.

As your State Senator I will take any and all steps possible to fight “woke” in all its forms. I will vote against any movement to promote Critical Race Theory in North Carolina schools. I will support actions to hold teachers and administrators who do not teach reading, writing and arithmetic accountable. I will support honoring our exceptional American and North Carolina history no matter what. This is a nation that has been founded and blessed by a loving, all-powerful and Almighty God. 

The reader has to do all the real work. I am nothing without you. You will have to go to school board meetings and ask your friends to speak out. You will have to expose the school assignments that aren’t grounded in fact and confront professors who seek to indoctrinate rather than teach. I do not have to tell you that it’s crucial that you vote in 2022. In order to win, you also have to know your enemy. For that I recommend James Lindsay and his site, NewDiscourses.com.