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Critical Race Theory is the GOP’s Newest White Grievance Scam
Most Republicans can’t explain it, but they don’t like it
If you pay attention to the media, you must have heard of the right-wing obsession with Critical Race Theory. If you’re one of those deluded souls who believe right-wing news, you might think that Critical Race Theory is the worst thing to hit America since the coronavirus. But most of the opponents of Critical Race Theory can’t accurately define it. And this is seen in interviews with Republican politicians.
“So, the critical race theory — and I can’t think of the author right off the top of my head who wrote about this — really had a theory that, at the high level, is one that really starts creating those divisions between us about defining who we are based on race and that sort of thing and really not about how to bring us together as Americans rather than — and dividing us and also having a lot of very socialist-type ideas about how that would be implemented in our state,” said Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts in a radio interview.
