As George Orwell said, some things are so stupid that only an “intellectual” could believe them. No ordinary person, Orwell said, could be such a fool.
Which probably goes a long to explain why intellectuals cloak so much of their beliefs in unintelligible verbiage. Everything they say hides a guilty secret. They refuse to speak plainly and clearly, because if they did, everyone would see how stupid, not to say pernicious, what they actually believe really is.
More importantly, cloaking obvious nonsense with an impenetrable wall of gobbledegook guarantees that it will bedazzle the educated idiots of the left.
For instance, a series of polls some years back showed that the more people understood socialism, the less likely they were to endorse it. If you’ve ever tried to argue with a student socialist, you’ll know exactly what the polls were talking about.
The same principle applies to the latest eructation of dangerous stupidity from the left, Critical Race Theory.
A poll from earlier this year indicates that a majority of Americans who believe they know what critical race theory is have an unfavorable view of it.
That’s because CRT is such obviously vile nonsense that nobody who wasn’t a vicious racist would support it.
Which is why the promoters of CRT cloak its reality in innocent-sounding lies like “anti-racism”. But anyone who bothers to look behind the curtain sees that it is, in fact, a virulent stew of racist extremism.
58% of Americans who claim they have a good understanding of what critical race theory (CRT) have an unfavorable opinion of it, according to the YouGov/The Economist poll taken in late January. Only 38% of Americans who said they know what CRT means are fans of the ideology.
I would hazard a guess that a fair percentage of that 38% don’t really know what CRT means. Just like the student socialists who think that Scandinavian countries are “socialist”.
True to Orwell’s observation, common people are not nearly so foolish as “intellectuals”.
Recently, parents across the country have been pushing back against attempts to insert CRT into school curriculums. A majority of the public outcry against critical race theory gained steam after this poll was taken, indicating that negative views of CRT are being mobilized into political action in more and more areas.
Critical race theory asserts that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and teaches adherents to view all interactions through a racial lens.
It also found that most Americans still aren’t overly familiar with the term. Only 26% of respondents said they had heard “a lot” about CRT, and 38% more said they had heard “a little.”
As journalist Tim Poole argues, the Democrats “chase low-information voters”. That is, Democrat voters overwhelmingly source their information from the likes of Rachel Maddow and CNN. ‘Nuff said. The most popular social media source for Democrat voters is “Occupy Democrats”, which even MediaBiasFactCheck rates as Extreme Left/Low Factual Reporting. “Overall, we rate Occupy Democrats Questionable due to far left-wing bias, promotion of propaganda and conspiracies, and the publication of fake news as evidence by numerous failed fact checks.”
This is where Democrat voters are getting their information. Is it any wonder they overwhelmingly support CRT?
Views were predictably split along partisan lines, with 86% of Democrats holding a favorable view of CRT compared to only 6% of Republicans.
Critically, independents overwhelmingly side with Republicans on this issue. According to the YouGov/The Economist poll, about three-quarters of independents who are knowledgeable about CRT are opposed to it.
Daily Caller
CRT is like a cheap sausage: once you know what’s in it, you’re not going to want to eat it.
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