CRT is putting Democrats in a bind

 Rick Moran:

Moderate and some progressive Democrats have begun to push back on the extraordinary excesses of critical race theory–to the point that the teaching of CRT even in big cities may be on the way out.

San Francisco is a good example. The wokest of woke cities, San Francisco is seeing a revolt by parents who don’t like seeing their children divided along racial lines and don’t support sacrificing excellence in the name of equity and diversity.

Citizens in San Francisco are attempting the unprecedented recall of three members of the school board who have come under fire for some of the most radical policies in America.

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But the key in San Francisco and other big cities is the deliberate undermining and shortchanging of Asian-American students. In their eagerness to strike a blow against white racism, the radicals have decided to punish Asian-Americans.

A month after its infamous name-change vote, the school board scrapped merit-based admissions in favor of a lottery system at Lowell High School, crown jewel of the city’s public system. The idea was to increase minority representation at the school.

But as critics noted, Lowell was already 82% nonwhite. It’s just that progressive math excludes Asian-Americans. Apparently it never occurs to the woke that the regular use of diversity to penalize Asian-American children for their hard work and achievement might itself be a form of systemic racism.

“The denial of equal rights to educational opportunity for Asian-American children by those claiming progressive values is particularly tragic in light of the recent pandemic of violence against Asian-Americans,” Lee Cheng, a co-founder and director of the Asian American Legal Foundation, told the Journal. “The street thugs and the educrats in San Francisco share many characteristics and prejudices. Both are racist. Some are just better dressed.”

Ouch.

In the heartland, parents have been pushing back on CRT and have successfully passed laws or introduced bills in nearly two dozen states. Not all of those are red states. And the tide may indeed be turning when moderate suburbanites — once a reliable voting bloc for Republicans before tilting heavily toward the Democrats in 2018 and 2020 — put their foot down to tell woke Democrats “no further.”

“I firmly believe that if the vast majority of Californians and Americans knew about this, and about the content of this type of curriculum, this would not be happening. We would not be having this conversation,” Eileen Kaplan, a Democrat suburbanite, told Politico.

But Democrats aren’t listening.

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The racist CRT curriculum is in the crosshairs of a parents revolt.  It has been said that some of this happened because they were listening to Zoom classes during the pandemic and were appalled.  Whatever the source of the blowback it is needed to deal with this racist garbage.