The Political Hat

     Despite many, many states standing up against Critical Race Theory, some states are embracing institutional racism, such as the state of Washington under the guise of “cultural competency”:

   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

   NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that state resources have been invested to:

   (a) Identify model standards for cultural competency;

   (b) incorporate these cultural competency standards into both the standards for effective teaching and the standards of practice for paraeducators;

   (c) develop cultural competency training programs for school district staff from paraeducators to administrators; and

   (d) develop a plan for the creation and delivery of cultural competency training for school board directors and superintendents.

(2) The legislature plans to continue the important work of dismantling institutional racism in public schools and recognizes the importance of increasing equity, diversity, inclusion, antiracism, and cultural competency training throughout the entire public school system by providing training programs for classified staff, certificated instructional staff, certificated administrative staff, superintendents, and school directors that will be provided in an ongoing manner.

     This is not only bad, but likely illegal according to the Washington Policy Center (via Legal Insurrection):

Key Findings

1. Lawmakers are considering three bills to impose Critical Race Training on Washington’s public education institutions.
2. Much of the Critical Race Training curriculum required by these bills is untrue, false, and destructive.
3. Critical Race Trainings require people to publicly profess their racial and sexual identities, and then be labeled as either “oppressors” or “oppressed.”
4. According to Critical Race Training, all white heterosexual men are “oppressors” and certain minority groups are “oppressed.”
5. These bills violate Washington’s Civil Rights Act, the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Washington State and U.S. Constitution.
6. The bills violate workers’ First Amendment rights by compelling speech or by suppressing their legitimate views and opinions.
7. Critical Race Training undermines the friendship and trust that make a caring and tolerant society possible and would make the problem of racism worse.

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