Re: Critical race theory. Kristi Noem's exercise in thought control doesn't square with what the

Re: Critical race theory. Kristi Noem's exercise in thought control doesn't square with what the Board of Regents is saying


Just to show you how confused and ambiguous the opposition to the concept of critical race theory (CRT) can be, look at the way Gov. Noem and the state’s Board of Regents (BOR) issued conflicting statements on the subject yesterday, August 5.

Noem came across like the thought-controller that she aspires to be. BOR tried to hold her off.

First, Noem, in a broadside against academic freedom, said in a statement that the BOR is taking steps to “limit its application in our university classrooms.”

She didn’t identify those steps, but never mind. Her statement, along with the rest of Noem’s message, is so vague as to be meaningless. How do you limit the application of a theory to facts that are indisputable? It’s like laying out all the data on planetary attraction and then saying those are the facts but you can’t call them the “theory of gravity.”

Like the endless reams of data supporting the theory of gravity, fact after fact after fact after fact make it clear that racism was built into the historic legal foundations of this country. But reality-denier Kristi Noem decrees that you can study those facts, you just can’t call them “critical race theory.”

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