{"id":295620,"date":"2021-07-10T04:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/disingenuous-defenses-of-critical-race-theory\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T04:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T01:54:26","slug":"disingenuous-defenses-of-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disingenuous-defenses-of-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"#Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e55d63c89\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e55d63c89\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/disingenuous-defenses-of-critical-race-theory\/#THE_BOOK_THAT_SHOWS_WHAT_CRT_CRITICS_ARE_UP_AGAINST\" >THE BOOK THAT SHOWS WHAT CRT CRITICS ARE UP AGAINST<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The latest defense for teaching our children to be racially divisive? It\u2019s free speech!<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/05\/opinion\/we-disagree-on-a-lot-of-things-except-the-danger-of-anti-critical-race-theory-laws.html\">The New York Times published an opinion piece<\/a> by commentators David French, Kmele Foster, Thomas Chatterton Williams and Jason Stanley, who presented themselves as a heroic \u201ccross-partisan group of thinkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They derided as \u201cun-American\u201d laws passed by states such as Texas, Florida, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Hampshire that prohibit public schools from promoting the core principles of critical race theory, including race essentialism, collective guilt and state-sanctioned discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>These authors imagine themselves the steady hand in a grandiose morality play, defending liberal-democratic freedoms against the threat of illiberalism, wherever it comes from.<\/p>\n<p>But in practice, they are enablers of the worst ideologies of the Left and would leave American families defenseless against them. Their three core arguments \u2014 that critical race theory restrictions violate \u201cfree speech,\u201d that state legislatures should stay out of the \u201cmarketplace of ideas,\u201d and that citizens should pursue civil-rights litigation instead \u2014 are all hollow to the core.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, they would usher in the concrete tyrannies of critical race theory, which explicitly seeks to subvert the principles of individual rights and equal protection under the law. Despite the superficial ideological differences between the four authors, they serve a single function: to prevaricate, stall and run interference for critical race theory\u2019s blitz through American institutions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"The opinion piece published by The New York Times.\" class=\"wp-image-18775341 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/NYT-col.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/NYT-col.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/NYT-col.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/NYT-col.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/NYT-col.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The opinion piece published by The New York Times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The authors\u2019 primary error is framing the debate as a question about free speech. This is bizarre. The First Amendment was designed to protect citizens from the government, not to protect the government from citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Public schools, which have the power of compulsion, are pushing toxic racial theories onto children, teaching them that they should be judged on the basis of race and must atone for historical crimes committed by members of their racial group.<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theorists, of course, have the right to express their beliefs as individuals, but voters and taxpayers are not obligated to subsidize their speech and include it in the public school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the public education system is not a \u201cmarketplace of ideas\u201d; it is a state-run monopoly with the power of force. Even under the most dogmatic libertarian philosophy, monopoly conditions justify, even require, government intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-critical race theory bills do not restrict teaching and inquiry about the history of racism; they restrict indoctrination, abusive pedagogies and state-sanctioned racism.<\/p>\n<p>In Idaho, for example, the law tells public schools they cannot \u201ccompel students to personally affirm, adopt or adhere to\u201d noxious ideas, such as one race \u201cis inherently superior or inferior\u201d or that an individual \u201cshould be adversely treated on the basis of race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times op-ed authors, however, make the case that the public must not interfere directly in public institutions, even those that promote state-sanctioned racism. They argue that anti-critical race theory legislation constitutes a \u201cspeech code\u201d and that any such limitations on the public school curriculum \u201cthreaten\u201d democracy itself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 2021 file photo, a sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, in New York. Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday June 8, 2021, after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government's home page, could not be reached.\" class=\"wp-image-18775386 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/nyt-crt.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/nyt-crt.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/nyt-crt.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/nyt-crt.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/nyt-crt.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The NYT authors argued the public should not get in the way of school curriculums.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Mark Lennihan, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But isn\u2019t some kind of speech restriction inevitable, even obligatory, in public schools?<\/p>\n<p>Or do state educators have the right to promote any ideology they desire \u2014 say, for example, eugenics or gay conversion therapy \u2014 immune from legislative restriction?<\/p>\n<p>During a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/should-public-schools-ban-critical\">recent conversation on the Bari Weiss podcast<\/a>, I asked co-author David French a simple question to test the implications of his theory: If a public school adopted a Klan-sponsored curriculum that promoted racial superiority theory, would he support or oppose state legislation to ban it?<\/p>\n<p>He ducked the question \u2014 and, when confronted on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, Kmele Foster and Thomas Chatterton Williams also refused to answer. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lication of this principle to school curricula still remains, and there seem to be three possible answers: First, they could support a ban, in which case their disagreement on the critical race theory ban would be partisan, not principled; or second, they could oppose a ban, which would be internally consistent, but atrocious on moral and practical grounds \u2014 a state should absolutely prohibit public schools from promoting Klan ideology.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bari Weiss podcast and in the Times op-ed, French and his colleagues appear to take a third position: They claim that many of the practices of critical race theory are already illegal under federal civil-rights law and, therefore, new legislation is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>This might be true as a matter of pure legal theory, but in reality, thousands of public schools are already engaging in these abusive practices and most parents do not have the resources to file a federal civil-rights lawsuit at every infraction \u2014 and the Biden administration has dropped all enforcement against critical race theory in public education, eliminating another avenue of protection.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After they took heat on social media, they also silently scrubbed their entire headline. The premise of the piece was that the authors were brave heterodox truth-tellers\u2014but they caved immediately under pressure. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WDBLsPcwnV\">pic.twitter.com\/WDBLsPcwnV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1413630539941257218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The status quo puts an extreme burden on individual families, while shielding public school from democratic oversight and accountability. This position, presented as a principled third way, is an illusion: It might make for a compelling law-review article, but in practice, it will move the country further down the path of racial abuse in the classroom, affording parents no recourse except for the abstract satisfaction that, in the mind of some intellectuals, these practices are already illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between these two approaches \u2014 action and nonaction \u2014 is significant. With state prohibitions on critical race theory indoctrination, schools have clear guidance about their curricula and families have immediate recourse.<\/p>\n<p>If teachers are pushing divisive racial theories in the classroom, parents can point to a clear, specific legal statute and force the school into compliance; if that fails, they can appeal to state attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> or state superintendents, who can immediately enforce the law.<\/p>\n<p>With the French-Foster-Williams-Stanley approach of maintaining the status quo, schools can continue to promote race essentialism, collective guilt and racial superiority theory, and parents would be obligated to file an expensive, multiyear federal lawsuit to challenge these programs in the courts one by one, with no guarantee of success.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, state legislation tilts the playing field in favor of parents; the status quo tilts the playing field in favor of bureaucrats, lawyers, and diversity officers.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that these writers simply aren\u2019t aware of the illiberal nature of critical race theory? In a word, no.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"School children in classroom at lesson\" class=\"wp-image-18775423 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/class-crt-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/class-crt-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/class-crt-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/class-crt-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/class-crt-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Idaho\u2019s state law says an individual can\u2019t \u201cbe adversely treated on the basis of race.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>David French, in particular, should know better. In 2012, he denounced critical race theory as a dangerous cult that enforced its orthodoxy with \u201cvicious\u201d harassment on the Harvard University campus; in 2017, he described it as \u201cracial poison\u201d that \u201cleads to sheer cruelty and malice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In our recent podcast conversation, after I suggested that critical race theory was verging on hegemony within our institutions, he pushed back, arguing that if the critical theorists had truly achieved hegemony, our conversation would not have been possible \u2014 it would have been outlawed, censored, banned.<\/p>\n<p>This is telling: French understands intuitively that critical race theory is a totalitarian ideology that, if it were to achieve absolute power, would immediately dismantle the liberal system, beginning with the right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>But French and his collaborators refuse to make the obvious connection. If critical race theory is \u201cracial poison,\u201d why allow it to seize control of our schools? If critical race theorists are \u201cmagnetic, preacher-like personalities\u201d who seek totalitarian power, why defend them in the name of liberalism?<\/p>\n<p>In practice, these writers have turned the Paradox of Tolerance into a farce. They cling to procedural arguments about phantom freedoms, while conceding substantive power to those who explicitly oppose Enlightenment rationalism, equality under the law, and the concept of rights itself.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, they end up enabling the most intolerant voices in our society, who have shown no capacity for self-moderation.<\/p>\n<p>At heart, they mistake protecting the status quo with protecting freedom \u2014 a lazy, not principled, position. If their ideas were to prevail, they would end up perverting the very values they claim to cherish: public school teachers forcing first-graders to denounce themselves as racists would become \u201cfree speech\u201d; school diversity officers forcing students through race reeducation programs would become \u201cacademic freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the ratchet only goes one way: They see no problem with states such as California, Oregon, Washington and Illinois mandating critical race theory in their state curricula and teacher-training programs; but if states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho and New Hampshire prohibit it, all of a sudden, that is an \u201cun-American\u201d threat to \u201cthe expression of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the American public has infinitely more sense than the New York Times op-ed page. The revolt against critical race theory has inspired millions of parents to engage in the political process, protest at school board meetings, run for office, file lawsuits, and lobby state legislators to stop the madness through the rightful exercise of democratic power.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"California is among the states that have mandated CRT in the curriculum.\" class=\"wp-image-18775461 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1754176730-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1754176730-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1754176730-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1754176730-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/shutterstock_1754176730-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>California is among the states that have mandated CRT in the curriculum.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/graphic-detail\/2021\/06\/17\/americans-who-have-heard-of-critical-race-theory-dont-like-it\">According to a recent YouGov\/Economist poll<\/a>, 64 percent of Americans now know about critical race theory, of which 58 percent view it unfavorably, including 72 percent of independents who believe including it in school curricula is \u201cbad for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These citizens understand implicitly that public schools are being devoured by a hostile ideology that seeks to divide the country by race and undermine the core principle of democratic control. They understand a simple truth, forgotten by the chattering class: In a democracy, voters get to decide how to shape, guide and restrict public institutions, especially those that have power over children.<\/p>\n<p>The war against critical race theory is a war worth fighting \u2014 and, more importantly, a war worth winning. Naive libertarianism, as always, is a path to demoralization, empty gestures and, ultimately, defeat.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"THE_BOOK_THAT_SHOWS_WHAT_CRT_CRITICS_ARE_UP_AGAINST\"><\/span><strong>THE BOOK THAT SHOWS WHAT CRT CRITICS ARE UP AGAINST<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>More than two dozen public schools and school districts across the country are recommending a book titled <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/anastasiahigginbotham.com\/not-my-idea\/\">\u201cNot My Idea\u201d by Anastasia Higginbotham<\/a> that suggests being white is a deal with the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher F. Rufo found that the picture book (below) is being recommended for students as young as preschool age despite including passages such as, \u201cWhiteness is a bad deal. It always was.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" alt=\"&quot;Not My Idea&quot; was written by Anastasia Higginbotham.\" class=\"wp-image-18775292 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Cover.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Cover.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Cover.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Cover.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Cover.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cNot My Idea\u201d was written by Anastasia Higginbotham.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Not My idea book\" class=\"wp-image-18775278 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Anastasia-ColorMatters.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Anastasia-ColorMatters.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Anastasia-ColorMatters.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Anastasia-ColorMatters.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Anastasia-ColorMatters.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>More of the pages from the book \u201cNot My Idea.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Not My Idea Book\" class=\"wp-image-18775326 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-RealHistory-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-RealHistory-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-RealHistory-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-RealHistory-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-RealHistory-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The book has been recommended for children ages 8 and above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Not My Idea\" class=\"wp-image-18775319 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Devil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Devil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Devil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Devil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/Not-My-Idea-Devil.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The \u201ccontract\u201d that is in question from the book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On one page, a red-tailed devil made of money offers a \u201cContract Binding YOU to WHITENESS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou get: stolen land, stolen, riches, special favors. WHITENESS gets: to mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of COLOR for the purpose of profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book, also recommended for students age 8 and up at the private Corlears School in Chelsea, presents a mother who \u201cdoesn\u2019t see color\u201d as wrong.<br \/>\u201cDeep down, we all know color matters,\u201d the book reads. \u201cSkin color makes a difference<\/p>\n<p>in how the world sees you and in how you see the world .\u2009.\u2009. It makes a difference in how much trouble seems to find you or let you be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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