To the editor:

On 6/23 three members of the highly partisan New Ulm Human Rights Commission invited the public to attend their next meeting to hear the unbiased truth about Critical Race Theory (CRT). Will they allow someone who is opposed to CRT to share the stage and offer an opposing view? If not, their real intent is to disseminate propaganda under the guise of sharing the truth.

Critical Theory is an outgrowth of Marxism. It takes Marx’s oppressed workers versus oppressor owners dynamic and substitutes other groups as the oppressed and the oppressors. It is designed to divide society into various groups and then set those groups against one another. Critical Theory provides the ideological underpinnings for violent overthrow of the existing structures of society.

We see Critical Theory at work in our country in the mobs rioting and tearing down statues of our country’s Founding Fathers. We see it in the dismantling of our judicial and law enforcement systems. We see it in the demands that whites pay reparations to persons of color. We see it in dangerous criminals being set free from prison and returned to the streets. In short, many of the societal ills that plague our country today have their roots in the ideas of Critical Theory.

This is what the Human Rights Commission (who do they represent, anyway?) wants to defend. Should the public attend their meeting? Not if they want to hear the truth.

Michael Thom

New Ulm