"Please take a few minutes to see what Lincoln’s Critical Race Studies students have been working on this year. Kudos to Lincoln teacher and Equity Specialist Ms. Mallare-Best for empowering students to stand and facilitate courageous conversations around race and the role of whiteness in a predominantly white state, city and school."
But remember, Critical Race Theory is NOT being taught to students in K-12. It's a subject so complicated that only the lucky few who scale the Olympian heights of Yale Law are allowed to study it, and then it's only offered once a decade. Right?
It's because of schools such as Lincoln with its applied critical-race-theory program that some states are passing laws prohibiting curricula that make kids feel bad about being white. I hope the tide will turn and someday the entire dodgy field of "Whiteness Studies" will be seen for the form of hate crime that it is.
Jun 14, 2022Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons
One way out of the briar patch that is comparative race-based testing might be to change the subject altogether. As it stands, the racial winners in this country wouldn't be whites but Asians and among whites alone it would likely be Ashkenazi Jews, say from Ukraine. I emerged from England's hardy peasantry, and I refuse to apologize for my mediocre life achievement. But since we are bewitched by abstractions like "equality", we need a back-up theory of race-based victimization to account for those differences. POC may be now and forever blameless for their below-average numbers but, then, who do we blame? School districts? Pedagogical theories? Oppressive whiteness? It's a toxic game regardless how well you play it.
The ad hoc solution coming from the woke left is to do away with merit-based admissions to prestigious high schools not to mention colleges. Achievement will matter less than a kind of social construction, say some academic pedigree based more on biography and compensatory victimhood. This is apparently the way we finesse a knotty subject where grades, aptitude, and raw intelligence used to matter. But as we see in San Francisco, many parents, particularly Asian-Americans, won't be happy with this outcome.
This formula would amount to the end of meritocracy in America. At some point, a reaction would set in and even imperil this entente. Success needs a foundation based on actual achievement. Pretending it all away will come easily enough for our earnest social justice crusaders but the cynicism it breeds will come at a terrible cost to the idea of America itself.
Out of the frying pan:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/06/washington-state-supreme-court-imposes-different-standards-on-police-seizures-for-bipoc-and-whites/
"Please take a few minutes to see what Lincoln’s Critical Race Studies students have been working on this year. Kudos to Lincoln teacher and Equity Specialist Ms. Mallare-Best for empowering students to stand and facilitate courageous conversations around race and the role of whiteness in a predominantly white state, city and school."
But remember, Critical Race Theory is NOT being taught to students in K-12. It's a subject so complicated that only the lucky few who scale the Olympian heights of Yale Law are allowed to study it, and then it's only offered once a decade. Right?
It's because of schools such as Lincoln with its applied critical-race-theory program that some states are passing laws prohibiting curricula that make kids feel bad about being white. I hope the tide will turn and someday the entire dodgy field of "Whiteness Studies" will be seen for the form of hate crime that it is.
One way out of the briar patch that is comparative race-based testing might be to change the subject altogether. As it stands, the racial winners in this country wouldn't be whites but Asians and among whites alone it would likely be Ashkenazi Jews, say from Ukraine. I emerged from England's hardy peasantry, and I refuse to apologize for my mediocre life achievement. But since we are bewitched by abstractions like "equality", we need a back-up theory of race-based victimization to account for those differences. POC may be now and forever blameless for their below-average numbers but, then, who do we blame? School districts? Pedagogical theories? Oppressive whiteness? It's a toxic game regardless how well you play it.
The ad hoc solution coming from the woke left is to do away with merit-based admissions to prestigious high schools not to mention colleges. Achievement will matter less than a kind of social construction, say some academic pedigree based more on biography and compensatory victimhood. This is apparently the way we finesse a knotty subject where grades, aptitude, and raw intelligence used to matter. But as we see in San Francisco, many parents, particularly Asian-Americans, won't be happy with this outcome.
This formula would amount to the end of meritocracy in America. At some point, a reaction would set in and even imperil this entente. Success needs a foundation based on actual achievement. Pretending it all away will come easily enough for our earnest social justice crusaders but the cynicism it breeds will come at a terrible cost to the idea of America itself.