North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill (pdf) on Sept. 10 that would have prohibited teachings in the K–12 school system that the measure calls contrary to “the equality and rights of all persons.” “This legislature should be focused on supporting teachers, helping students recover lost learning, and investing in our public schools,” Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Instead, this bill pushes calculated, conspiracy-laden politics into public education.” Proponents of the bill, mostly Republicans, call it the anti-discrimination bill, while many Democrats consider the bill an attack on critical race theory (CRT), also claiming that there’s no evidence of CRT being taught in the North Carolina school system. CRT is based on the Marxist philosophy that describes society as a class struggle between oppressors and the oppressed; it labels white people as the oppressors, and all other races as the oppressed. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican …
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