Every parent wants to protect their child from prejudice. Yet some activists and writers claim that state lawmakers’ proposals to reject educators’ use of critical race theory in K-12 schools is a “campaign” that “thrives on caricature.”
We saw an example of this in a Twitter exchange between the best-selling author Jordan Peterson and the Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Chris Rufo this week.
Peterson argued that “banning” critical race theory in schools is “a bad idea” because “ideas are defeated by better ideas.” Peterson also added that CRT “can’t be defined or policed.”
Rufo,…
