National outlets amplify clips of angry parents, creating a cycle of outrage
Viral videos of impassioned parents denouncing critical race theory at school board hearings have become a cornerstone of the movement to ban its teaching.
In one such video, a mother declares critical race theory (CRT) to be “a tactic used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves”. In another, a woman calls CRT “the
American version of the Chinese cultural revolution”. A third mother says she has proof that her local school board is “teaching our children to go out and murder
police officers”.