Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In Idaho, for example, the law tells public schools they cannot "compel students to personally affirm, adopt or adhere to" noxious ideas, such as one race "is inherently superior or inferior" or that an individual "should be adversely treated on the basis of race."
60% : They derided as "un-American" laws passed by states such as Texas, Florida, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Hampshire that prohibit public schools from promoting the core principles of critical race theory, including race essentialism, collective guilt and state-sanctioned discrimination.
60% : First, they could support a ban, in which case their disagreement on the critical race theory ban would be partisan, not principled; or second, they could oppose a ban, which would be internally consistent, but atrocious on moral and practical grounds -- a state should absolutely prohibit public schools from promoting Klan ideology.
60% : These citizens understand implicitly that public schools are being devoured by a hostile ideology that seeks to divide the country by race and undermine the core principle of democratic control.
59% : Public schools, which have the power of compulsion, are pushing toxic racial theories onto children, teaching them that they should be judged on the basis of race and must atone for historical crimes committed by members of their racial group.
57% : Even under the most dogmatic libertarian philosophy, monopoly conditions justify, even require, government intervention.
50% : But isn't some kind of speech restriction inevitable, even obligatory, in public schools?
48% : The First Amendment was designed to protect citizens from the government, not to protect the government from citizens.
40% : The status quo puts an extreme burden on individual families, while shielding public school from democratic oversight and accountability.
24% : This might be true as a matter of pure legal theory, but in reality, thousands of public schools are already engaging in these abusive practices and most parents do not have the resources to file a federal civil-rights lawsuit at every infraction -- and the Biden administration has dropped all enforcement against critical race theory in public education, eliminating another avenue of protection.

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