Should CRT Be Banned From K-12?

Well...as a last resort...probably.

It's bad for the government to interfere in that way...but the government...and leftists...and ed schools...and teachers' unions...are already interfering in that way. The few red state governors who are doing anything are just trying to stop the insanity.

   If CRT were being taught as one view among others, and it was being taught in the ordinary way in which reasons for and against are considered, then it wouldn't be so bad. But, of course, that's not what's happening. What's happening is politico-philosophical indoctrination. There's absolutely no excuse for the kind of wacko leftist brainwashing about race and sex (and "gender") that's going on in K-12..and college. If we started teaching kids some philosophy and "critical thinking" in junior high or whatever...well...CRT might be discussed as a part of that. Though, in the vast sweep of Western philosophy, CRT wouldn't even warrant a whole hour of class. Without teaching philosophy generally, along with some reasoning skills, CRT gets an illegitimate advantage. If that's the only view you talk about, you inevitably give students the idea that it's a prominent theory, and, in fact, the main or only theory on the table. In fact, it's a minor, extremely idiosyncratic view. It's a minor, quasi-philosophical offshoot of one, controversial school of very recent Continental philosophy. It's like teaching kids only about Scientology or Zoroastrianism...that's gonna absolutely give them the wrong impression of the importance of such views. Oh and: teaching it to them as if it were known to be true. Oh and: telling them they're racists if they don't believe it. Oh and: leaving out all the (copious) problems with the view.

   Again I say: remember this. Even if we win, the leftist establishment has proven itself, once and for all, to be totalitarian whack jobs.