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Why conservatives oppose critical race theory
They struggle to define what it means but consider the theory a serious threat to the country and a setback to race relations
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Betty Sawyer, a supporter of critical race theory, center, exchanges views with a group of women opposed to the theory, after a protest organized by the Utah Educational Equity Coalition outside of the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Glenn Beck called it “the knockout punch for America.” Tucker Carlson says it’s a “noxious lie.”
Critical race theory has also been called anti-American propaganda, a cult and a virus that is more dangerous in the long term than COVID-19. It’s hard to find a conservative voice that hasn’t denounced it in the past few weeks, giving the fractured GOP a unifying issue.
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