'These are the goal-oriented 'crisis actors' who've brought us the moral panic around Critical Race Theory that has now morphed into a book-banning frenzy.'
The moral panic currently sweeping America about Critical Race Theory has been covered ad nauseum by the press and commentators across the political spectrum. That's what typically happens with moral panics .
Imagine you're a multimillionaire white evangelical preacher who's looking for an issue you can use to more tightly bind your congregation—your donors—to you by portraying yourself as a crusader who's going to save their children from a horrible fate. These are the goal-oriented"crisis actors" who've brought us the moral panic around Critical Race Theory that has now morphed into a book-banning frenzy. The movement to entirely privatize public education in America began in a big way after the 1954 Brown v Board Supreme Court decision that ended legal racial segregation in our public schools. Entire counties shut down their schools and a new industry of all-white"Christian academies" popped up all over the country.
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