This resolution declares that critical race theory is a form of Marxist ideology, is counter to the U.S. form of government, and poses a threat to the country, its citizens, and the free world.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1303 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1303
Establishing the Marxist roots of critical race theory and detail the
threat this divisive ideology poses to the American republic.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 29, 2022
Mr. Bishop of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Van Drew,
Mr. Grothman, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Steube, Mr. Good of Virginia, Mr.
Banks, Mr. Clyde, Mrs. Boebert, and Mr. Massie) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and
in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
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RESOLUTION
Establishing the Marxist roots of critical race theory and detail the
threat this divisive ideology poses to the American republic.
Whereas critical race theory is a newly prominent vein of thought that has
arisen in the United States with the purpose of calling into question
the founding and moral legitimacy of the United States, both here and
throughout the world, and is for many reasons a pressing issue of debate
for the American people;
Whereas critical race theory identifies a special kind of property,
``whiteness'', created by White people originally from Europe in order
to grant themselves power and privilege while excluding other racial
groups from ``whiteness'' and its putative benefits;
Whereas critical race theory teaches children that they are either oppressors or
oppressed based solely on the color of their skin;
Whereas critical race theory accordingly claims to identify a racial
stratification of American society and its institutions created by
access to and exclusion from ``whiteness'' as a specialized form of
racial property that confers social capital upon those with access to
it;
Whereas critical race theory designates as ``privileged'' those granted access
to ``whiteness'', contends that this ``white privileged'' status is
maintained by an ideological commitment to what it calls ``white
supremacy'', by which it means maintenance of this form of racial
``property'' and the capacity to exclude certain people from it, and
thus establishes therein a racial hierarchy within the United States;
Whereas critical race theory frames the alleged racial-class stratification of
American society as racial-class antagonism across this line of
stratification;
Whereas critical race theory explicitly frames this racial-class antagonism as
structural in nature under the terms ``structural racism'' and
``systemic racism'', sees it as structurally determinant upon the
character of United States citizens, and defines it in terms of a
structural dialectic analogous to Karl Marx's doctrines of structural
classism, material determinism, and dialectical materialism;
Whereas critical race theory claims that ``structural racism'' is the
fundamental organizing principle of United States society and its
``ordinary state of affairs'', thus framing the United States as an
intrinsically unjust, oppressive, and racist nation, and this being in
direct analogy to Karl Marx's views on the structural nature of
capitalism, which was his caricature of the free-market principles that
underlie United States society, especially inalienable property rights;
Whereas critical race theory contends that its purpose is to awaken a racial-
class consciousness pursuant to, in its own defining words, ``calling
into question the very foundations of the liberal order, including
equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and the
neutral principles of constitutional law'';
Whereas critical race theorists consider themselves ``highly suspicious of . . .
rights'' and thus set themselves in opposition to the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution, the American founding ideals of
inalienable rights secured by a government, and the social fabric of the
American Republic;
Whereas critical race theory, in its own words, ``contains an activist
dimension'' such that ``it not only tries to understand our social
situation, but to change it; it sets out not only to ascertain how
society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to
transform it for the better'', and thereby affirms the dialectical
conception of the world and man's role in it put forth by Karl Marx in
such a way that its implementation by the government threatens to
violate of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment;
Whereas critical race theory claims that the only solution to this state of
affairs is to ``abolish whiteness'', explicitly eschewing ``incremental
and step-by-step progress'', in perfect analogy to Karl Marx's demand in
the ``Communist Manifesto'' to abolish bourgeois private property, with
this being the clearly stated purpose of raising the racial
consciousness;
Whereas certain prominent advocates of critical race theory have publicly called
for the principles of critical race theory to be insinuated not only
into all vital and secondary American institutions and businesses under
terms with deceptive specialist definitions, including ``diversity'',
``equity'', ``inclusion'', and ``antiracism'', but also into the United
States Government with power over all public policy on the local, State,
and Federal level, in effect establishing a ``dictatorship of the
antiracists'' analogous to the Marxist vanguard concept of a
``dictatorship of the proletariat'' and inimical to the American way of
life and republican form of government;
Whereas the creators of critical race theory openly describe themselves as
Marxists and recognizing that critical race theory is the primary tool
of the twentieth century movement called ``Critical Marxism'';
Whereas prominent critical race theorists have explicitly declared that the only
remedy to past discrimination is present and future discrimination in
the reverse direction to the ``structural racism'' from those with
access to ``whiteness'' to those allegedly excluded from it, in
violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and its equal protection clause;
Whereas critical race theory therefore not only calls for illegal racial
discrimination and ``structurally determined'' racial stereotyping but
also leads to the racial scapegoating of ``whiteness'' and those who
allegedly have access to it; and
Whereas the response from critical race theorists to this resolution will be to
accuse this resolution, its authors, and its supporters of malicious and
racist intent: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) recognizes critical race theory and its derivatives as
a form of Marxist ideology;
(2) recognizes that critical race theory exists in direct
opposition to the founding ideals, way of life, and form of
Government of the United States; and
(3) declares that, as a Marxist ideology, critical race
theory poses a significant threat to the United States
Republic, its citizens, and the free people of the world rising
to the degree of a clear and present danger to the Republic,
its citizens, and the States, its allies, and the good and
happiness of mankind.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
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