About this episode
Critical race theory has marched its way through many of America's educational institutions. Angry elementary school parents noticed during the pandemic that their kids' teachers were more inclined to teach them that white people were evil than to teach them to read. Unfortunately, critical race theory—which views everything through the lenses of race and oppression— also has found fertile ground in America's colleges and universities. More disturbingly, medical schools and military academies have fallen victim to it. William "Bill" Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell Law School and founder of Legal Insurrection, has been tracking which institutions teach critical race theory, and how deep the rot goes, in a database at criticalrace.org . It's not pretty, he says. "It's so widespread that it's harder to find places where it's not being taught, either directly or indirectly, than it is where it is being taught," Jacobson says, adding: When you have an educational system, which, almost [from] kindergarten now through higher education in most places in the country, teaches children and teachers that the most important thing in their life and the way to look at everything is through skin color—what do you expect to happen? Jacobson joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss his database, and what the implications are for the rapid spread of critical race theory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices