Monday letters: The American version
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, critical race theory is "an offshoot of Marxist-oriented critical theory." The recent testimony of Xi Van Fleet before the Loudoun County (Virginia) school board confirms that description of the theory. As a Chinese immigrant who survived Mao's Cultural Revolution, Van Fleet spoke from firsthand experience of the revolution's efforts to erase Chinese culture while imposing a totalitarian government. "The communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people," she said. "The only difference is that they used class instead of race." Referring to t...