People differ on advice when facing a criminal. Some say, “Let the mugger take your handbag. It’s not worth your life.” Others say “Scream and fight. Bullies are weak and easily scared off.”
Some say, “Don’t fight a rapist and he won’t kill you.”
Others say, “Fight with everything you have; if he’s willing to take that from
you, he’s willing to kill you, and he’s motivated to, because you can ID him.
So you have nothing to lose by fighting and everything to gain.”
Some say, “A burglar is only taking stuff; that’s not worth
the death penalty.” Others say, “If he’s willing to come on your property and
take your stuff, how do you know that’s all he’s willing to do? He knows you
have the right to protect yourself before he risks his life to get your stuff.”
Two approaches. One says, “Submit and be a victim.” The
other says, “Fight. You don’t have to be a victim.”
Today’s post is about standing up, refusing to be a victim—against
some particular assaults on our freedom and civilization.
A number of stories lately give me hope, because people are
standing up. When enough people do that, we start to win, and then those
committing the assaults on our freedom and civilization will get scared off—back
into the dark corners they crawled out of.
The main type of assault we have examples for today is
Critical Race Theory. But the principles apply to the gender agenda, often tied
up with CRT because of intersectionality. And it applies to other forms of
tyranny as well, which might get a mention at the end.
Critical
Race Theory Assault Response
Standing Up at School Board meetings—especially when the
message gets shared—is having an impact.
Virginia is getting a lot of attention. In this first one, a Fairfax County teacher speaks at a Loudoun County school board meeting.
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| A teacher speaks against Critical Race Theory at a Virginia school board meeting. screenshot from here |
· “Virginia Teacher Eviscerates ‘Woke’ Leftist Critical Race Theory Agenda at School Board Meeting” by David Rufful, Analyzing
America, June 10, 2021.
· “Teacher Unloads on 'Woke' CRT Agenda During
Loudoun County School Board Meeting” by Sister Toldjah for RedState,
June 9, 2021.
Her speech is brief. Here’s the transcript:
I’m a Fairfax County public school teacher, and I’m going to
give a message of encouragement to parents and teachers and students who are
too afraid to come forward and speak.
Parents, the longer that you wait and you don’t hold your
child’s schools accountable gives these guys more time to dictate what’s best
for your child’s physical, mental and emotional health. Don’t be afraid to
speak out for your kids, because they are voiceless and they rely on you.
You should be afraid of them rooting for socialism by the
time they get to middle school.
Teachers, it may seem that our careers have come to a dead
end, but I’m here to remind you, we don’t work for the school board. We work to
mold the next generation of well-rounded American patriots, so don’t give up
because it is up to us.
Students, you are on the front lines of these indoctrination
camps. Challenge the staff when you’re presented with a ludicrous statement and
do not allow anybody to tell you that you cannot accomplish anything because of
your skin color or to hate yourself because of your skin color. Students, it is
up to you to be the next generation of victims or victors.
And finally, to the board, this isn’t over and your policies
are just as [mic was cut off].
This second one is also in Virginia, Xi Van Fleet, a
survivor of Mao’s cultural revolution, giving us warning:
· “Survivor Of Mao’s China: Critical Race Theory ‘Is Racist,’ China Used ‘Wokeness’ To Install Communism” Daily Wire News,
June 11, 2021.
· “Woman who survived Mao's purge compares
critical race theory in US schools to China's Cultural Revolution in scathing
speech” by Paul Sacca for The Blaze, June 10, 2021.
· “Virginia mom who survived Maoist China
eviscerates school board's critical race theory push” by Michael Ruiz for Fox
News, June 10, 2021.
This additional Virginia story happened a while ago, but
there’s new news:
· “Judge Reinstates VA Teacher Suspended For Refusing To Affirm Trans Identity For Kids, Calls School Response ‘Vindictive’”
by Jon Brown for The Daily Wire, June 8, 2021.
Tanner Cross, an elementary school PE teacher in Loudoun
County, was suspended for speaking at a school board meeting at which the board
had requested opinions on the subject of pronoun policy for transgender
students. But they didn’t like his opinion, so they suspended him. They had
additionally restricted him from any school property, taking away any
opportunity for further public comment. A judge has called them out as being
vindictive.
Here’s part of Cross’s statement:
I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them
regardless of the consequences. I’m a teacher, but I serve God first and I will
not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa, because it’s
against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s
sinning against our God.
Here's one from New York:
· “New York Mother unleashes on school board:
'You're emotionally abusing our children'” by Thomas McDonald, Independent
Chronicle, June 10, 2021.
Tatiana Ibrahim, the NY mom, told them,
You’re emotionally abusing our children and mentally abusing them. You’re demoralizing them by teaching them communist values. This is still America, ma’am. And as long as I’m standing here on this good ground Earth of God, I will fight. This is not the last of me you will see. I’m retired; I’ve got nothing else better to do.
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| Tatiana Ibrahim speaks at a Carmel, NY, school board meeting. screenshot from here |
This was an intense 11 minutes. At one point a school board
member tried to get her to stop, because this wasn’t a “peaceful discussion.”
Ibrahim responded, “No, that's your opinion. See, here we go again. This is
peaceful; to me, this is peaceful. I'm not burning, looting, and murdering.”
She told them she had proof that their teachers were supporting those types of behaviors,
including encouraging murder of police. The board looked nonplussed. But the
people there—and the people who have watched the video—are glad to see someone
standing up against the misguided authority figures.
This one is from Bloomington, Illinois:
· “Mother unloads on school board over young children being taught about masturbation, anal sex, transgenderism” by Phil Shiver for The Blaze, June 14, 2021.
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| Becky Swan confronts Illinois school board with text containing explicit content being presented to young children. screenshot from here |
At the school board meeting, Becky Swan mentions that
introducing sexualizing topics to young children is grooming behavior. She’s
right about that. http://sphericalmodel.blogspot.com/2019/05/its-called-grooming.html
Making children suffer through these
uncomfortable topics is a form of sexual harassment. Also true. After listing
the explicit content topics being forced upon children at different levels (all
inappropriate), Swan held up a book and said that if the content is too
sensitive to be brought up at that meeting, it was too sensitive to be taught
to young children.
Rhode Island mom Nicole Solas stood up to a school
board in yet another way, to find out what CRT and gender curriculum was going
to be taught to her kindergartener.
· “Kindergartner's mom files 200 records requests
on CRT, gender curriculum to force school district to respond. Board claims
she's using intimidation tactics” by Sarah Taylor for The Blaze, June 4,
2021.
· “Mom fights anti-White training in daughter’s kindergarten class: ‘They reduce everything down’ to skin color” by Angelica
Stabile for Fox News, June 3, 2021.
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| Nicole Solas speaks with Tucker Carlson about getting information on what her kindergartener would be taught. screenshot from here |
What started out as “several” records requests—the method for getting the information that the school district directed her to use—grew to 200 records requests, because she couldn’t get a straight answer from the school district about what they were going to teach her daughter.
The school board felt the heat. They threatened to sue her, accusing
her of intimidating them in order to get rid of that heinous curriculum they
wanted to use. At a public hearing, they shouted at her and called her racist—just
as you’d expect from a bully. But she has stood firm.
Solas uses APRA, the Access to Public Records Act, which is
essentially a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. There’s a good
explanation and sample request letter here.
Some good things happened in Colorado. Parents spoke
up, and the school board changed their minds:
· “Colorado Mother Rebukes Critical Race Theory As ‘Nightmare’ That Needs To ‘End Now’” by Chrissy Clark for The Daily Wire,
June 2, 2021.
· “These Parents Successfully Pressured Their School Board To Ditch Divisive Equity Training” by Georgia Howe for The
Daily Wire, June 3, 2021. This is in Douglas County, Colorado.
Here's an example from Florida:
· “Black Mom Torches Critical Race Theory: It’s ‘Racist,’ It’s ‘Teaching Hate,’ Will Destroy America” Daily Wire News, June 11, 2021.
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| Keisha King speaks to Florida State Board of Education. screenshot from here |
Keisha King, a Duval County parent supporting school choice
and opposing divisive CRT curriculum, says,
I don’t know about you, but telling my child or any child
that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black
is racist, and saying that white people are automatically above me, my children
or any child is racist as well.
State
Actions
By the way, the State of Florida has now banned the
teaching of Critical Race Theory.
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“Florida bans use of critical race theory, ‘1619Project’ in teaching history” by Jeffrey S. Solochek for the Miami Herald,
June 10 (updated June 11), 2021.
The “1619 Project,” was a badly non-historical rewriting of American history put forth by the New York Times. President Trump banned it in September 2020 and replaced it with the “1776 Unites Curriculum,” and put in place the “1776 Commission.” But Biden switched back toward Critical Race Theory and its Marxist dogma on his first day in office.
Florida is not the only state banning these ideas. Here are
stories about Iowa, Idaho, and Oklahoma:
· “Iowa Bans Critical Race Theory: Schools Should ‘Promote Learning, Not Discriminatory Indoctrination’” by Tim Pearce for The
Daily Wire, June 9, 2021.
· “Red States Against Critical Race Theory/Idaho and Oklahoma pass legislation banning state-sanctioned racism in public schools.” by Christopher F. Rufo, May 3, 2021.
This next one covers Florida and others, and lists the
following as considering such bans in their legislatures: Michigan,
Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota,
Arizona, Kentucky, Utah and New Hampshire.
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“Critical Race Theory Is Banned in These States”
by Chris Dutton for Newsweek, June 11, 2021.
While Texas was on that list, the Texas legislature finished
its legislative session May 31st. Before close of session, it passed
HB 3979 requiring that civics teaching must include
the moral, political, and educational foundations of America and must not
include CRT ideas; the bill has been sent to the Governor for signature. He has
until Tuesday, June 15th, to sign or veto the bill, or else it
automatically becomes law.
Even though these states have banned the teaching of CRT, we’ve
seen this before, with Common Core. They retitle and put it in anyway. Some of
the laws are specific enough to specify what curriculum must include or
exclude. But that doesn’t mean local districts won’t use other materials that
they might not call curriculum. So parents better be vigilant about holding
their local school districts accountable.
By the way, for local friends, we have a Cy-Fair
Independent School District board meeting Monday, June 21, at 6:00 PM. Info
here. You might want to mention that they sent
out CRT materials to teachers just this past month, and we need a solemn promise
that such propaganda will have no way into our schools ever again. I wrote
about this here.
Some
Outcome Effects
We need to know we’re not alone in our opinions. We have a
right to speak them. And things get better when we do.
Here’s an example of what outcome this damaging
indoctrination has led to—but the employer isn’t giving the wokes a win:
· “Employer says he has stopped hiring Ivy League
grads: They're too 'woke,' too 'self-important,' or have been trained to stay
silent when it matters” by Phil Shiver for The Blaze, June 9, 2021.
In this next story, Matt Walsh offers this opinion:
Do you want to know why conservatives are losing the culture?
Nickelodeon put out two videos in a week of a drag queen pushing gay pride on
children and still most conservative parents will allow their children to watch
shows on the network. That’s it. That’s why we lose.
Nickelodeon should be bankrupted. They’ve made their agenda
clear. They’ve made it plain that they hate us. And if we all stopped giving
them our money, they’d collapse. That’s what should happen but it won’t.
I did hear elsewhere today that Nickelodeon’s viewership is 1/3
of what it was 4 years ago. “Since July of 2017, Nickelodeon’s viewership has dropped from 1.3 million average viewers per week to a June of 2021 average of
only 372,000.” It looks like bankruptcy may be looming after all. If that happens, it will be
because parents spoke by tuning out.
Learn
Then Speak
While collecting things for this post, I learned about investigative
reporter/filmmaker Christopher Rufo (he wrote the piece about Idaho and Oklahoma
above). It was his investigative journalism that led President Trump to ban CRT
in the federal government. He has put out some resources.
· This “Critical Race Theory” explanatory video,
which includes CRT history, what’s happening in institutions, and how to fight
back.
· This Critical Race Theory Briefing Book. I especially like a section called “Winning the Language War.” This free online
“book” also includes links to examples, and info about passing legislation.
· This 11-part series “Critical Race Theory in Education” in the Articles section of Rufo’s website. Every example is jaw-dropping. These things shouldn’t be happening.
·
This transcription of Rufo's Atlantic interview
on CRT.
Rufo also wrote these two informative pieces:
· “Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It” for Hillsdale’s Imprimis, from a lecture he gave March 30,
2021.
· “Critical Race Theory Would Not Solve Racial Inequality: It Would Deepen It” by Christopher Rufo for the Heritage Foundation,
March 23, 2021.
Here’s another guide to stopping CRT in schools:
· “Conservative think tank creates 'A to Z guide'
for stopping critical race theory in schools/Former Trump official Russ Vought
leads effort to train anti-CRT parents” by Matt Leach for Fox News, June
8, 2021. This includes a free 18-page downloadable booklet by Vought on what
CRT is and how to stop it.
And, because terminology changes
whenever a term becomes negative, here is Vought's list of terminology that often accompanies
CRT ideas:
· “List: Critical Race Theory Terms” from the
Center for Renewing America, a Russ Vought website.
Additional Stand Taking
What is giving me hope right now is the accumulation of
people standing up and speaking up. CRT and the LGBTQ agenda are worth standing
up against—even though you get maligned and cancelled. It’s beginning to make a
difference.
Here are some other examples of people standing up against
the tyranny we’re facing—from CRT and other arenas of tyranny.
· “Houston Hospital Nurses Stage Walkout Over Vaccine Mandate” by Holly Hansen for The Texan, June 8, 2021.
· “117 employees sue Houston Methodist overCOVID-19 vaccine requirement” KHOU-11 News, May 28, 2021.
· “Breaking News: Harris County Voter Applied for a Ballot by Mail—29 Years After Her Death” by Colleen Vera for Texas Trash
Talk, June 12, 2021. Colleen, a friend of mine, keeps finding these
examples. One FOIA request at a time. She has given the state AG’s office quite
a lot of work to do.
· “‘We Are Going To Expose You’: Vets Crenshaw, Cotton Create Whistleblower Doc To Combat ‘Woke’ Efforts In U.S. Military” by
Hank Berrien for The Daily Wire, May 30, 2021.
· “Cotton Reveals Military Whistleblower Complaints On Woke Training, Biden’s SecDef Insists, ‘Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Is Important To This Military’” by Hank Berrien for The Daily Wire,
June 11, 2021.
· Dan Crenshaw has this
Whistleblower Form for military to report complaints on Woke Training. He posted about it on Facebook here.
· “How Critical Race Theory is Sabotaging Our Schools” Rep. Dan Crenshaw on his Hold These Truths podcast interviews
Dr. Richard Johnson of Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Booker T. Washington
Initiative.
Think of information as your ammo. Your voice is your weapon.
Use it carefully and wisely. But use it.
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