President Biden resolutely chooses the harsh cultural left in his early rush of executive orders, including reopening the door for federal bias training based on the absurd “critical race theory.”
Last week, he rescinded a Trump-era order banning training that implies that someone is racist or sexist “on the basis of his or her race, gender and / or national origin.” The former prez had instituted that rule after it turned out that federal government agencies had done just that – jumping on the far-left cart to insist that (to begin with) all whites and all men are intrinsically bigoted.
Yes, several agencies responded to the Trump order by suspending all anti-bias training until they could investigate their programs – but that was a sensible response: It’s all too typical for hardened bosses to carelessly use external ‘ experts’ endorse that show utter nonsense.
And if you don’t accept the far left’s radical claim that America is full of hidden intolerance, it’s hard to see why even notCrazy training in avoiding bias is needed for most of the large federal workforce. This is basically a “culture war” project that has slipped into practice without any rational debate.
Notably, Biden also simultaneously dissolved President Donald Trump’s Commission in 1776 and retracted the final report it had just released. The report condemned attempts by the left to damage America’s founding principles by emphasizing slavery at the heart of the nation’s founding.
It was in response to The New York Times’ error-ridden “1619 Project”, which aims to teach schoolchildren that the nation was created to defend oppression, not freedom, and has been condemned by many of the best liberal historians of the nation, including specialists. into slavery.
Of course, the Times denounced the 45-page report, as if it “defends America’s founding on the basis of slavery.” In reality, the report acknowledges the horror of slavery, but also acknowledges that the American foundation planted the seeds for its abolition at a time when slavery was practiced worldwide.
If Biden doesn’t stop his de facto support for this leftist madness, all his talk about rebuilding the American center will be nothing but deceptive noise.