The conservative website Legal Insurrection has created a new tool for parents and students to track critical race theory training activity at more than 200 colleges and universities.
The website was launched over the weekend and is the result of six months of research. The website also says it plans to add more colleges and universities to the list over time.
William Jacobson, the Cornell law professor who founded Legal Insurrection, told Fox News on Tuesday, “The website is a resource for parents and students who no longer can assume they will be left alone. … The entire ideology of CRT and ‘anti-racist’ training is that ‘silence is violence.'”
Institutions of higher education have long been integrating critical race theory into their curriculum. Kimberle Crenshaw, one of the early scholars behind the development of critical race theory, told Time, “It’s an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what’s in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it.”
In practice, critical race theory training often manifests into conversations about implicit bias or white supremacy that conservatives feel are often unfairly imposed on students as the only moral way of thinking.
In September, Ben Shapiro of the Daily Wire wrote on Twitter, “Critical race theory is part and parcel of a larger philosophical movement that sees American principles as a lie, covering for mere racist power dynamics. It’s destructive, and directed at tearing down the country.”
“People need to understand that higher ed is the source of the problem,” Jacobson added to Fox News. “It provides the ideological mothers’ milk for activists, and trains the people who then go on to jobs in government and primary [or] secondary education and the ‘journalists’ who push this coverage.”
