The economic elite have successfully fabricated a new moral panic to further their political agenda: critical race theory, a discipline that studies how social structures like laws affect the livelihoods of certain racial identities.
The charge against critical race theory gained enormous traction when conservative pundit Christopher Rufo appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in summer 2020 to claim that critical race theory had “pervaded every aspect of the federal government” and was “being weaponized against core American values.” After Rufo’s appearance, Fox News mentioned critical race theory in its news segments nearly 4,000 times and made patently false claims about the discipline that have since become popular.
As a result of the controversy, 33 states have alarmingly either moved to restrict or ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools. Academics, as educators, have a responsibility to combat the repression of critical race theory along with misinformation surrounding the discipline. They should do so by institutionalizing critical race theory into their curricula. This is especially true of academics at GW, an institution that has a history of being influenced by economic interests. For example, GW’s Regulatory Studies Center, a University research center funded by Koch Industries and Exxon Mobil, almost universally “advocates against environmental regulation and relies primarily on researchers with ties to groups funded by the Koch family.”
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