Praeger University's "What is Critical Race Theory?" is Full of Unfair Attacks

    One of the illogical fallacies is to create for another person what they believe -- make up a lie about their beliefs -- and then to attack that belief. The person under attack is left saying, "I never said that. I don't even believe that. Why do you say I said that?"

   Praeger University has a new video out, and I wonder if it isn't chalk-full of such attacks. Titled, "What is Critical Race Theory?" it says CRT teachings are, "coming to a high school, college, or workplace diversity training session near you."

   It says CRT holds that the most important thing about you is your race, it is the color of you skin, not your values, not your character, not your behavior. I sit here wondering how many diversity training sessions teach that. I doubt that is taught in BYU's instructional courses. I wonder if it taught at any college, high school and workplace.

   The Praeger University video says CRT makes the assumption that racism exists in all interactions. I don't know that that is true. I would imagine there are some who believe every interaction between a Black and a White person is racist, but I doubt that principle is being taught in diversity training sessions in colleges, high school, and worksites.

   The video asks what would happen if two people, one Black and the other White, entered a store at the same time. Who would you help first? If you help the Black person, CRT holds that it will be because you don't trust that person to be left alone. But, if you help the White person, CRT teaches that it will be because you think the Black person is a second-class citizen. I wonder if that is actually being taught in any of the diversity training sessions in our high schools, colleges, or workplaces.

   The video takes the Martin Luther King quote, "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." To Critical Race Theorists, says the video, Martin Luther King was both wrong a naive. I would not be surprised if some diversity training sessions do quote Martin Luther King -- for it is a good and worthy quote -- but I doubt any suggest he was wrong and naive. 

   So, what to make of the Praeger University video? It tells falsehoods. In biblical terms, it bears false witness. Inventing a belief for another person and then attacking them for it is like making a straw house and then knocking it down. It's like fashioning a figure of a person out of straw, and then tearing the straw person apart. That's not the real person. Thus, this form of illogical thinking is called "the Strawman" when illogical fallacies are listed.

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