President Trump says he is readying an executive order on education that would counter critical race theory and the 1619 project.

 

President Donald Trump makes the announcement. NBC News/AP

President Trump says he is readying an executive order on education that would counter critical race theory and the 1619 project with a more patriotic curriculum. NBC News. Trump announced the formation of a 1776 commission on education. He said that the 1619 project and other applications of critical race theory are a form of child abuse. President Trump has been moving against critical race theory and has banned the use of training based on the theory. He has also threatened to pull funding from schools that adopt the 1619 project. 

My Comment:

Another welcome move from the Trump administration. A country cannot survive if the children aren't taught to love and revere it. A new curriculum that shows the good parts of America is well needed and I hope that this comes to pass as soon as possible. 

The alternative is just stupid. The 1619 project is not something that should be taught in school and neither should critical race theory. The idea that the United States is a uniquely and unforgivably racist country is not one that is supported by evidence or reality. We do have issues with race and racism but that doesn't mean we have to teach kids that the entire country is damned because of it or downplay the fact that every other country has issues with race and racism as well. 

And I do think that critical race theory is racist. If we were to make the same accusations against Jews that are made against white people in critical race theory we would be rightly denounced as anti-Semitic. But somehow a theory that says that all white people are racist and that America is racist as well because it tolerates it isn't racist itself? It's a joke. 

President Trump is right, this is child abuse. Blaming white children for things that are completely beyond their control is damaging to them. It won't make them less racist, indeed, I see the opposite happening where people understand that if they are going to be denounced as racist they might as well do it anyways. 

And I think it will be damaging to non-white students as well. I don't think black children are served by saying that they are helpless because white people have kept them down for hundreds of years. It would much better to tell them they can do whatever they want and failure and success will be on their own terms. 

What about other non-white, non-black groups? As usual, they get ignored. With critical race theory, Asians and Hispanics are lower on the totem pole and tend to be considered white when it is convenient and non-white when it isn't. They get many of the disadvantages but none of the benefits.

I have always thought that critical race theory was a rip off of Christian ideology and the concept of original sin. Like critical race theory, the concept of original sin says that people are born bad and that everyone is wretched from birth. The big difference with Christianity is that there is a possibility of salvation and forgiveness. For the woke, forgiveness is a sin itself.  

Tackling this issue is long overdue. The far left has captured much of the machinery of the state and control education, medicine and government, even if they lose elections. Anything that is done to erode this power is a positive and I think that President Trump's biggest problem here is that he waited so long to do so. There are going to be a lot of new voters who have been raised with this garbage and it's going to be very hard to undue this damage.