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Line 48: − ==Youth groups and organizations== − Following the death of [[George Floyd]], a nation-wide panic arose to "virtue signal" support for "racial justice" as defined through the lens of CRT. For example, on June 15, 2020, the Boy Scouts of America Executive Committee issued a statement that redefined "Be Brave" as including being anti-racist. {{quotebox|The Boy Scouts of America stands with Black families and the Black community because we believe that Black Lives Matter. This is not a political issue; it is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address.}} BSA will require each Eagle Scout to earn a new diversity and inclusion merit badge, and all BSA staff will be required to attend diversity training.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/|title=BSA’S COMMITMENT TO ACT AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE|date=June 15, 2020|accessdate=October 4, 2020}}</ref> − − In 2007, a Professor at the University of Waterloo published a research paper, "Ugly on the Diamonds: An Examination of White Privilege in Youth Baseball" which argued that there are elements of racism within the color-blind polices of the Little League.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490400601160895?journalCode=ulsc20|first=Troy D. |last=Glover|date=January 30, 2007|title=Ugly on the Diamonds: An Examination of White Privilege in Youth Baseball}}</ref>
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Mathematics is possibly the profession which deals with abstract truths and discovery independent of cultural factors. Our current mathematical knowledge has its origins in Arabia, Greece, China, India among other civilizations. Yet, in response to the Trump Administrations discussed above, the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics issued a statement on October 2, 2020:{{quotebox|Critical race theory, referenced in recent Executive statements by the President of the United States, is an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship. It is misguided, at best, to reduce this theory to the race-blaming of white people and to define it and the discussion of systemic racism as a “divisive concept.” Furthermore, banning training utilizing this scholarship to raise consciousness, from federal and federal contractor workplaces, is an encroachment on science and the academy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/anti-science-policy-censure-of-discourse-on-race-and-racism|title=ANTI-SCIENCE POLICY AND THE CENSURE OF DISCOURSE ON RACE AND RACISM|date=October 2, 2020|accessdate=Oct. 6, 2020}}</ref>}} Of course, this criticism is inapt because the Executive statements specifically allow for teaching of CRT objectively, and prohibit in race-blaming of any group, whites, blacks or other people of color or misusing stereotypes.
Mathematics is possibly the profession which deals with abstract truths and discovery independent of cultural factors. Our current mathematical knowledge has its origins in Arabia, Greece, China, India among other civilizations. Yet, in response to the Trump Administrations discussed above, the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics issued a statement on October 2, 2020:{{quotebox|Critical race theory, referenced in recent Executive statements by the President of the United States, is an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship. It is misguided, at best, to reduce this theory to the race-blaming of white people and to define it and the discussion of systemic racism as a “divisive concept.” Furthermore, banning training utilizing this scholarship to raise consciousness, from federal and federal contractor workplaces, is an encroachment on science and the academy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/anti-science-policy-censure-of-discourse-on-race-and-racism|title=ANTI-SCIENCE POLICY AND THE CENSURE OF DISCOURSE ON RACE AND RACISM|date=October 2, 2020|accessdate=Oct. 6, 2020}}</ref>}} Of course, this criticism is inapt because the Executive statements specifically allow for teaching of CRT objectively, and prohibit in race-blaming of any group, whites, blacks or other people of color or misusing stereotypes.
==Criticism==
==Criticism==
Peter M. Burfeind writes,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/why-black-lives-matter-only-empowers-racist-white-leftists/</ref>
Peter M. Burfeind writes,<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/why-black-lives-matter-only-empowers-racist-white-leftists/</ref>