In a followup to last week’s story about the Texas House passing a similar bill, a Texas Senate committee also passed a ban on teaching Critical Race Theory. And they even made it better:
When state Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) introduced his bill to stem the teaching of critical race theory in Texas classrooms, he accepted almost two dozen amendments by Democrats that heaped a host of figures and documents onto the bill’s list of required reading to understand the nation’s founding.
After the bill passed the state House and then jumped to the Senate, the State Affairs Committee stripped these amendments away.
On Monday, Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) introduced a committee substitute — a changed version of a bill — nearly identical to Toth’s original version, House Bill (HB) 3979. In fact, the text of the committee substitute is a carbon copy of Toth’s Senate companion bill, carried by Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), which the Senate already passed.
This may seem like a lot of hugger mugger, but passing an amended version of the House’s bill makes it easier for the legislation to pass without a conference committee if the House accepts the senate changes.
While committee substitutes are a common stage in the life of bills, this bill’s committee substitute is notable for confirming a suspicion of some Democrats in the House, who asked Toth if the Senate would slough away their amendments. Toth said he bore no responsibility for the Senate’s actions. Ultimately, his acceptance of the amendments gained no Democratic support in the final House vote on the bill.
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As some critics noted in the State Affairs Committee hearing, the bill does not mention critical race theory explicitly. Rather, one part of the bill forbids teachers from pushing certain tenets of critical theory as it has been distilled and popularized. Examples include the notion that meritocracy is racist or prejudiced, or that certain racial groups bear collective guilt or responsibility.
Here are the eight concepts that teachers, administrators, and other school employees would not be able to require or make part of a course:
one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously; an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual’s race or sex; members of one race or sex cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race or sex; an individual’s moral character is necessarily determined by the individual’s race or sex; an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex; an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual’s race or sex; or meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by members of a particular race to oppress members of another race.
Parents of all races, creeds and colors have come together to reject the radical racism of critical race theory, and now Texas is rejecting at the state level.
Tags: 87th Texas Legislature, Brandon Creighton, Bryan Hughes, Critical Race Theory, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Toth, Texas
CRT is totally and completely racist. Amazing how that theory claims to be antiracist, but judges everyone by skin color. Insanity
I’m curious about the democrats’ amendments. It’s messy that after accepting the amendments – probably necessary to get the bill through – they’re stripped away later. Seems dirty. Less likely to get cooperation in the future.
The truth about slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and treatment of tribes native to the land, isn’t pretty. Any attempt to avoid these topics is not helpful. While I’ll never support reparations, I do believe there’s something we could come to an agreement about to address these stains.
That said, CRT is a cancer, and excising it now is of utmost importance.
“Texas Senate Committee Passes Ban On Teaching Critical Race Theory”
All teaching of Marxism by public entities is banned in the United States as establishment of religion. First Amendment, ya know.
Show me any difference between the tenets of say, Islam, and Marxism, other than the latter’s convenient denial of a God in a traditional sense while elevating the State to God status. Both belief systems feature believing six impossible things before breakfast and murdering all who don’t cooperate with their totalitarianism.
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“while elevating the State to God status”
not the state. the owners of the state. because in their religion they are as good as god, and everyone else is a talking animal put here by god to serve them, to be eliminated if they don’t.
now. identify these people and you’ve identified just about every problem we face in these times.
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