Soft Bigotry

What To Know: Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get a diploma, that state’s legislature says.

The TPPF Take: What’s behind this move to ensure that Oregon students get less—not more—of the education that really matters? You guessed it—critical race theory. Minority students tend to do less well on standardized tests, so instead of improving the quality of teaching, we’ll just get rid of the tests.

“CRT’s grossly demeaning caricature of African-Americans, along with its racist assertion that ‘all whites are oppressors,’ does a gross injustice to Americans of all races and ethnicities,” says state Rep. Steve Toth, who authored a bill that effectively bans critical race theory in Texas classrooms. “CRT must plead guilty to what George W. Bush called ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’ CRT promises only to bring more hostility, more racial misunderstanding, and more violence to our cities and our nation.”

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