The efforts against CRT and other "divisive concepts" or "divisive language" in schools is mostly fueled by white grievance against the browning of national demographics and the gradual erosion of white privilege in America. White, Christian, patriarchal privilege has been chipped away at for 60 years politically and socially, and this shift toward greater justice and equity is painful for those who culturally came to expect to inheret the same advantages as their parents. Turns out that the idea that "working hard" is no guarrantee of anything in this country, and while black Americans have known this for 350 years, whites have held onto the myth of the "American Dream" for a long time, even though that for so many of them, too, it did not apply. The myth is teetering, and angry lower and middle-class whites have begun flailing while looking for scapegoats, and wealthy whites hope that they never turn on them (the real problem). So manipulative politicians demonize progressive ideas like BLM or CRT or simply acknowledging the fact of slavery to eight-year-olds to keep the rabble whites from turning their anger on them.
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