Clayton Parr: The 'anti-woke' movement is based on censorship and exclusion.
A man holds up a sign against critical race theory during a protest outside a Washoe County School District board meeting on May 25, 2021, in Reno, Nev.A highlight of today’s phase of U.S. history arises from highly publicized exclusionary actions taken by various state legislatures and others in the public sphere regarding race and sexual subject matter.
Why academic focus on the subject leads to dire consequences is even more unclear. Adding to the murky foundation for the attack is that courses addressing the subject exist rarely and almost exclusively at the college level. A troubling aspect of these movements to establish rigid classroom subject-matter boundaries is that they disregard the expertise and judgment of teachers and supervising school boards in determining how best to meet the education needs of students in their charge.
What is especially disturbing is the commonality of these actions. They all seem to stem from nationwide agendas related to campaigns against what is called “wokeism.” The term has been defined as “the behavior and attitudes of people who are sensitive to social and political injustice,” seemingly a humane attitude that should be admired rather than scorned.
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