Liz Wheeler traces the origin of today’s woke culture being taught to American students.
Children are being harmed by radical Marxist theory in America’s public education, and the sooner this is realized, the sooner America will have a chance to reclaim a future, according to Liz Wheeler, host of The Liz Wheeler Show and author of the book “Hide Your Children: Exposing the Marxists Behind the Attack on America’s Children.”
Ms. Wheeler, in an interview to EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders, said some people may think that talking about there being a Marxist influence behind America’s education system is similar to an insult.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, parents saw a glimpse of what policy culture is driving their children’s education. They were able to see the content of schools’ online courses when their children were learning from home, and saw the politicized emphasis on topics like critical race theory, transgender ideology, and moral relativism, being instilled in children’s minds, according to Ms. Wheeler.
As a student of history, she understands this as a concerted, systematic effort, and not something done in an arbitrary way. Ms. Wheeler said she wanted to get to the bottom of who was behind this effort, which became the focus of her book.
Capturing the Children
She said that in the past century, the left has “tried to reengineer our society and has been pretty successful at it,” as they have captured the foundational institutions of the media, education, many religions, and the law, which they have used to attack the nuclear family.
“There is one element of the nuclear family left standing, children, which maybe explains why the left is going after these children,” Ms. Wheeler said.
Ms. Wheeler names the people and the institutions behind these attacks on America’s children in her book, and has found that all these people are either self-avowed Marxists or people who have embraced “an obvious Marxist ideology.”
By Efthymis Oraiopoulos and Jan Jekielek
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