Here’s something that’s long overdue:
The Texas House advanced legislation Tuesday in a 81-52 vote that would restrict public school districts from incorporating critical race theory into their curricula.
The roll call vote actually shows 79 Yeas, 65 Nays and 2 voting Present, which represents an essentially party-line vote.
The lower chamber still has to conduct one more vote before the bill can be forwarded to the Senate for approval, The Texas Tribune reported. Texas Governor Greg Abott [sic] has expressed support for the measure and is expected to sign the legislation.
HB 3979, sponsored by Representative Steve Toth, aims to limit indoctrination of critical race theory, which teaches that racism is intrinsic to the America’s national fabric and founding history.
Toth’s bill stipulates that an instructor cannot “require or make part of a course” a series of race-related concepts, including the ideas that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” or that someone is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” based on their race or sex.
“House Bill 3979 is about teaching racial harmony by telling the truth that we are all equal, both in God’s eyes and our founding documents,” Toth said on the House floor Monday.
“Do you want our Texas kids to be taught that the system of government in the United States and Texas is nothing but a cover-up for white supremacy? Do you want them to be taught a souped-up version of Marxism?,” Toth asked.
The text of the bill can be found here.
Of all the possible threats to the republic, conservatives were slow to realize how quickly Critical Race Theory and its associated social justice warrior/victimhood identity politics ideologies would infect so a large swath of the education establishment. But white guilt is a helluva a drug, and combined with peer pressure, status anxiety, Trump Derangement Syndrome, George Soros money, and an unwavering conviction that the anointed members of the clerisy are manifestly superior to those inbred freaks of Jesusland and their Backward Ways, social justice has metasasized into a tangible threat to the very constitutional order. Conservatives (and many parents) are finally awake to the problem of woke, but is it too late?
Tags: Critical Race Theory, education, Greg Abbott, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Toth, Texas
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