

“By targeting specific communities using a map like this they are inciting division and stirring up anger. “Over the last several years our organization has grown increasingly concerned about the activity of hard right extremist groups targeting schools, educators, and youth,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas, the interim deputy director of research at Southern Poverty Law Center. The term has become a buzzword that has helped Republican politicians raise millions of dollars.Įxperts have expressed concern that Liberty Alliance USA’s rhetoric could have potentially dangerous consequences.


Typically, the concept is taught at the graduate level in colleges and universities. “ Critical race theory” is an academic discipline that examines how America’s history of racism and discrimination still affects the nation in the present. “That is why we have officially launched the Woke Heat Map - an interactive tool designed to expose the insane actions of the radical Left.” “The first step in fighting back is uncovering their crazy ideas - from Critical Race Theory to grooming toddlers with sexually explicit books,” the Liberty Alliance USA website says. The “ heat map’” hosted by Liberty Alliance USA highlights 12 Missouri schools and universities where conservatives can “fight back” against institutions that teach critical race theory or “extremist gender ideology.” Herzog Charitable Foundation have given Liberty Alliance USA hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2019, tax records show. Organizations with connections to the Stanley M. Herzog Charitable Foundation, a Christian education organization, an OpenSecrets investigation found. 16, 2021 ( Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Ī Missouri-based “dark money” group that recently launched an online map targeting what they claim are “hotspots” of “woke activity” in the state has deep ties to the Stanley M. (A protester’s sign opposing critical race theory on Nov.
