On Saturday, Laurier professor David Haskell sounded alarm bells over Ontario Bill 67, which will shoehorn critical race theory into Ontario K-12 classrooms.
During a discussion with PPC leader Maxime Bernier, Haskell said the bill would require teachers to use “Anti-Racist” principles that are, in fact, racist against every ethnicity.
“I don’t know what’s going on with Doug Ford’s progressive conservatives because all of them voted for this,” Haskell said.
The bill, which a member from NDP proposed, has cleared the second reading in Ontario without dissent from conservatives. It only needs to get through one more reading to become law in Ontario.
If passed, the only way teachers can get hired and advance their careers is if they can prove they obeyed the radical far-left ideology. For example, teachers would need to show that they teach children according to the racist Critical Race Theory in classrooms as young as kindergarten.
The impact this would have on kids is sickening, and morally backwards, Haskell claims.
Neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a collectivist ideology that reduces people down to their skin colour and advocates presuming qualities on the basis of presupposed genetic markers for good or evil.
CRT proponents say no racism exists (or even can exist) towards white people. White people are inherently racist and must unlearn racist biases.
The impact on students would be soul-crushing, Haskell says.
“You are going to be affected psychologically,” Haskell explains. “You’re going to believe that even though you’ve done nothing wrong, you’re going to be told that just by virtue of your skin colour you are not a good person, that you are inherently racist, that you are responsible for crimes of the past… That’s just the white students.”
People of colour, on the other hand, are considered victims.
“They’re equally affected by this racist bill, by this racist ideology, because they’re going to be told ‘You’re a victim… The system is stacked against you therefore you will lose.'”
Haskell claims this is “The racism of low expectations.”
“We don’t want to live in a world like that, where your immutable characteristics becomes who you are. That’s not who we are.”
