The School Counselors Association of Pennsylvania just signalled its commitment to the perpetuation of racism and bigotry recently by coming out in support of Critical Race Theory being taught in classrooms.
First we were told that CRT is a legal standard only taught in law schools, so reports of CRT in our government-run schools were wild conspiracy theories. Then we were told that CRT is the only way to end racism in America, so anyone opposed to it is simply anti-racist.
As violent authoritarian types often do while they yet have lack of total monopolistic power, this group is appealing to actual injustices in the land to justify injustices that will soon outstrip the injustices they allege to be ending. They do this by failing to actually end the injustice they promise to end (as a matter of fact, they often excacerbate them, and we are sure this is what will happen here) WHILE adding more people to the rolls of injustice than were there before (as CRT most assuredly does).
Keep reading the Freedomist for more on CRT and the complexity of confronting a program of police-state control without undermining the parts of that program that might be beneficial to Americans, such as facing our sins, reporting on them, sharing them, and seeking to create more just societies that measure up to a Bill of Rights standard this nation-state has yet to fulfill, but has consistently been moving ever closer to fulfilling.
We won’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, and CRT does have contained within it some ‘babies’ we hope to keep.
The bottom line is that an ideological frame that assumes humans are reducible to melatonin, genitals, and sexual preference is scientifically, spiritually, morally, and ethicly unfit for government schools that are allegedly there, in part, to create good citizens in a Bill-of-Rights-based republican form of governance.
The bottom line is that telling children their nation is evil, telling children their skin and their relation to their genitals defines their worth in society is criminally vulgar and molests the children the state alleges to be serving and equipping. This, my friends, is the underlying dark flaw of CRT, and Pennsylvania School Counselors just made it known they stand for this molestation of children by the state.
