Reframing America

For John, BLUF:  Critical Race Theory appears to be an Anglo-American construct that sees the world centered on an all powerful Euro-American "race", while ignoring the racist (nationalism) in the rest of the world.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Asian Americans Emerging as a Strong Voice Against Critical Race Theory

From Newsweek, by Writer Helen Raleigh, 9 March 2021, 6:00 AM EST.

Here is the lede plus three:

Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive, discriminatory ideology that judges people on the basis of their skin color.  It has penetrated our society—it's in federal agencies' and federal contractors' "bias training," in school curricula and many corporations' "diversity training."  Few are willing to speak out against it for fear of being labeled racists or white supremacists.  Asian Americans, however, have emerged as a powerful voice against this pernicious ideology.

The Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York (CACAGNY) delivered the most vigorous rejection of CRT yet, calling it "a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud."  CACAGNY is one of the oldest chapters of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, which was founded in San Francisco in 1895 to respond to nationwide discrimination and violence against Chinese Americans.  For more than a century, this organization has helped Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans, to "quicken the spirit of American patriotism" and to "insure the legal rights of its members."  CACAGNY speaks out against CRT now because Asian Americans have experienced its harm firsthand.

According to CRT's victimization ledger, all whites are oppressors, and all "people of color" are oppressed.  CRT argues that unequal economic outcomes among different races in our society result from white power and white privilege.  Asian Americans punch a big hole in that worldview.  As a group, their economic achievement has surpassed that of all other racial groups, including whites.  Last year's Department of Labor statistics even showed that the median weekly earnings of Asian women surpassed white men's earnings.

Values drive Asian Americans' economic success.  Many believe in education attainment, stable marriages, delayed gratification, hard work and meritocracy.  CRT attacks all these as "white" values, and the people who practice them as acting "white."

I was surprised to see this article in Newsweek, which I normally think of as part of the major media orbit.

I believe the approach of Critical Race Theory will influence Federal, State and Local Governments, until Hispanics decide that it is not working for them, at which time the tide will turn against this view of America and swing back to the themes of hard work and "land of opportunity".

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff