Far-Right Snitch Network Targets Schools That Talk Race

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A new crop of right-leaning political organizations has emerged to blast money at the“critical race theory” panic on the right

Far-Right Snitch Network Targets Schools That Talk Race
A new crop of right-leaning political organizations has emerged to blast money at the “critical race theory” panic on the right.
thedailybeast.com
5:00 PM · Jun 13, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/critical-race-theory-panic-sees-far-right-snitch-network-target-schools-that-talk-race

The 1776 Project PAC has been in operation for approximately two weeks. It has not yet tapped any of the school-board candidates it hopes to run in its crusade against the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in American schools, a cascading source of cultural panic on the right.

The group has, nevertheless, raised more than $55,000, its president claims.

As in-person school-board meetings return across America, some of these oft-sleepy gatherings have grown crowded and contentious, with parents decrying what they claim is an insidious new teaching method. More than anything else, this novel threat is evidenced, they say, by racial sensitivity measures or history classes that highlight racial inequities.

These critics say the schools are teaching “critical race theory,” an academic framework that encourages scholars to examine racial injustice on an institutional level. Nevermind that most of the schools are not teaching the method (with its roots in legal theory, it’s a little advanced for the elementary school set), nor that it can foster a better understanding of inequality. With an infusion of cable TV outrage fuel, state and local school boards are up in arms, with Florida this past week moving to ban swaths of racial education in the name of banning the allegedly dangerous theory.

Behind the scenes, a new crop of right-leaning political organizations has emerged to blast money at the moral panic. They’re funding school board candidates, and also—and perhaps most ominously—asking people to snitch on schools that dare to talk too much about race.

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[LiberalBrooke]

1. They sure are terrified

to even look at their white privilege.