As a visiting fellow at Heritage, he produced a report arguing that critical race theory makes inequality worse, and in April the Manhattan Institute appointed him the director of a new “Initiative on Critical Race Theory”. A host of new organizations has also sprung up to spread the fear of critical race theory far and wide. Since 5 June, Fox News has mentioned “critical race theory” by name in 150 broadcasts, the Atlantic found. For some of these groups, critical race theory is just one of many “liberal” ideas they don’t want their children to learn. The idea is that a drop of poison is all you need to ruin the well Adam LaatsFor others, it seems possible that attacking critical race theory is just a smokescreen for a bog standard conservative agenda.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2021 09:56 UTC