Without Evidence? That Means It's True

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Check with Chip, broughtto you by retire Smart. I'm Chip
Maxwell. The local newspaper published astory headlined Nebraska legislative hearing focuses on parental
involvement in schools. The story hadtwo devices the left uses to hide the
threat of critical race theory c rT. C RT is the body of

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teaching that says, among other things, that if you are white, you
are automatically bigoted against blacks. Ifyou have the audacity to say no,
I don't think less of anyone becauseof race, CRT fires back, your
racism is so deeply embedded that youdon't even realize what a racist you are.

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In the story, some state senatorsand state school board members expressed concern
over the influence of c RT inK twelve education. The left dismisses this
concern as a fussy a reaction bythe right. The story included boilerplate language
that has become a staple of theleft. The story said critical race theory,

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which is nearly a century old andis typically taught at the graduate school
level, examines how systemic inequities havestemmed from race and racism, saying it's
nearly a century old is supposed tomean there's nothing to see here. This
is old news, there's nothing toget excited about, and it's only taught

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in elite egghead academic circles, notin fifth grade. Both assertions are false.
The local newspaper needs to do abasic Internet search. Just type into
your search engine critical race theory inelementary schools and you will see dozens of

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stories about it. As far asthe age of critical race theory, it's
those or to two centuries old,going back to the cranky German intellectual hothouse
environment of the mid eighteen hundreds thatproduced Karl Marx. Then CRT was harnessed
by race warriors in America in thelatter part of the twentieth century to build

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toward the unholy Trinity. We nowhave critical race theory, Black Lives Matter,
and the sixteen nineteen project, asin the year's slaves from Africa first
arrived in America. Drill to thecore of each and you find Marxism,

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angry leftists trying to find a wayto bring down America from within. Marxism
can't compete with the American dream,so the left is trying to make racism
the number one feature of America.That way, the left can claim it
may seem like minorities are doing wellin America, but it's all all contaminated

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by racism. Conservative State school boardmember Kirk Penner is a favorite target of
the left. In fact, thenewspaper story included a photo of protesters holding
signs that said, parents against Penner. He must be doing something right.
Here's a quotation from the story.While he agreed developing self awareness and self

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management were good things for students,Penner said without evidence that schools that did
so under the most common frameworks wereteaching it through the lens of a critical
race theorist without evidence. This hasbecome the one way, all purpose dismissal

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for the left. We don't haveto address this argument because there is no
evidence to support it, as inDonald Trump asserted without evidence that the Russia
collusion allegation is hoax. The ultimatewithout evidence example is the debate over fraud
in the twenty twenty general election.The right asserts without evidence that the twenty

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twenty election was stolen. Never mindthe hundreds of sworn affidavits by citizens,
including election officials, of ballot relatedirregularities. Never mind in a close fifty
two percent to forty eight percent election, the statistically and laughably impossible spectacle of

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hundreds of thousands of votes virtually allfor one candidate, appearing after election day
in just the right places and justthe right amounts. So when you see
without evidence woven into a story,that generally means the left can't refute that

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fact or opinion, so it triesto undermine its credibility by suggesting that it's
a product of someone's feverish conspiratorial imagination. Meanwhile, the story included this nugget.
In twenty twenty two, the LaunchNebraska website curated by the state Education
Department had links for teachers professional developmentthat promoted critical race theory. The links

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were taken down after it was broughtto the department's attention. So the crazy
right wing without evidence tinfoil had conspiracykoops were right. CRT is being drummed
into teachers so they will work itinto the curriculum. My wife teaches Spanish

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at a Catholic high school. Teachersand Catholic schools go through some degree of
faith formation and are encouraged to modelthe faith and work it into the curriculum
where possible. Is the Catholic Catechismpart of the curriculum of my wife's Spanish
class? No, do the principlesof the Catechism's surface in classroom lessons and

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discussions. Yes, it's the samewith CRT. Teachers may not be quoting
the German intellectuals who define the doctrine, but CRT principles and values surface in
classroom lessons and discussions. Anybody whoquestions that is hopelessly naive or covering for

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the stealth effort to poison our childrenwith CRT. That's check with Chip.
I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you forlistening.