1963 Civil rights march on Washington, D.C., Photo by Warren K. Leffler courtesy of Library of Congress on Unsplash.
There’s a much longer essay coming next week about the ongoing attacks against CRT and what it reveals about who the GOP believes are real “Americans.” History is littered with patriots fighting for freedom and liberty—but they’re not the “right” Americans who are allowed to be canonized into America’s myth.
The anti-American, paranoid-fueled backlash against Critical Race Theory shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone in tune with the current state of US politics. Six months ago, white supremacists stormed the Capitol, upset and angry that people they have deemed to be “Un-American,” who are in reality bread-and-born American citizens, would eagerly dethrone their KKK-endorsed childish god-king from his throne.
They tell themselves fairytales before bed, explaining away simple math with convoluted conspiracy theories and rehashed racist rhetoric as to why a majority of Americans voted to oust an anti-American white supremacist demagogue hellbent on destroying democracy for his party’s power-seeking prophets and plunderers.
The same hatred and bigotry that helped propel jet-setting insurrectionists to DC are fueling a crackdown on nuanced truth in favor of myths, lies, and propaganda, and it shows the GOP’s very-real racist mindset about this country’s founding, and its struggles to deliver Liberty to everyone.
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The party is putting forth a rabid effort to entrench symbols of white supremacy across the US as something sacred while criminalizing the very discussion as to how and why those statues were erected in the first place. The party wants unrepentant—obedience—patriotism over context because context destroys this country’s myth. It’s not so much an attack on truth as it is an attack on the country itself, determined to perpetuate propaganda designed to keep the people from asking too many difficult questions about how and why we got to this point in history.
The GOP’s attack on CRT is bad-faith by design but on par with the party’s perverted version of American history. Attacking and questioning this country’s founding isn’t an attack on America—it’s an deconstruction of the lies that the country needs tells itself so it can pursue the American Dream without worry, and the last thing the GOP wants is Americans waking up to realize they’ve been dreaming a nightmare.
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