In Todayβs episode of White People Are Crazy, rightwing talk radio host Michael Savage took his I-wanna-be-oppressed-so-bad ass on Newsmax, aka Republican Disney +, to turn the dial on his conservative Critical Race Theory paranoia up to 10 by declaring that the teaching of CRT is a slippery slope to *checks notes* Nazi Germany-style death camps for white people.
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The guy who everyone keeps telling me is not Junior Soprano from The Sopranos (theyβre wrong, but whatever) claimed that white βchildren are being humiliated and hurt and damaged for lifeβ by the teaching of CRT in K-12 schoolsβwhich isnβt actually happening because the kids are too busy learning what is essentially Critical White Theory, or a whitewashed version of American historyβand that CRT is βnothing but racism towards white people.β
So far this is just more of the typical whiny wypipo ranting weβve come to expect from conservatives who are pretending they actually know what CRT is. But Savage wasnβt satisfied with only sounding as ridiculous as the rest of the anti-CRT hack-tivists who decry the existence of a decades-old academic study that theyβre clearly only just now Columbusing discovering; he needed to sound even more demented (much like Junior Soprano was in the later seasons, but, again, whatever) by comparing CRT to the anti-Jewish propaganda that led to the Holocaust.
βThe same kind of thing started in Germany,β the guy who Iβm still pretty sure shot Tony Soprano in the gut in episode one of season six said. βThe Jews were no good. The Jews did this. The Jews did that. The next thing you know they were being excluded from swimming pools. They didnβt put them in concentration camps overnight.
βI studied this intimately,β he continued. βI am Jewish. I know how this starts. Attacks on white people is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. Donβt fall for this garbage. This is the road to the death camps. Stand up to these bastards and sue them!β
Clearly, Savage needs a history lesson and one that would force him to think critically. (If only there were an academic study that allowed for such a thing.) There are subtle differences betweenβ*checks notes again just to make sure by white-nonsense-o-meter is operating properly*βNazi Germany and the teaching of CRT in America.
Letβs just say for the sake of a stupid-ass argument that CRT teaches hatred for white people in the same way that Nazi propaganda taught hatred for Jewish people (it doesnβt and Savage sounds like a whiny color-redacted idiot saying that it does). How exactly does that turn into a white genocide situation in a majority white country?
According to the census in 1933, Jewish people accounted for less than a full percent of Germanyβs population and they werenβt the people in power. Conversely, Americaβs population is still well over 70 percent white, and white people still overwhelmingly represent our nationβs lawmakers and law enforcers.
So whoβs setting up the Caucasian death camps, bruh? Savage appears to believe that CRT will serve as a catalyst for the largest white-on-white crime massacre in the nationβs history, which would be ironic AF if anything he was saying made any sense.
Besides, Savage didnβt need to go all the way to Germany to find comparable history that involves racist propaganda ending in the mass murders of a racial groupβthereβs a history full of that right here in the good old U. S. of A.
But, of course, the history of mass lynchings of Black people by racist white peopleβwho absolutely believed their actions were as righteous as the Nazis didβisnβt the history white conservatives want to be explored. Thatβs what this is all really about. White people have a very white-exclusive idea of what racism is and how it works, and CRT does nothing but poke holes in that bubble.
All people like Savage do is prove, with their below remedial understandings of history and power structures, the need for Critical Race Theory to be taught.
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