Macalester College Professor Brian Lozenski, appointed by Democratic vice presidential hopeful Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) to devise an “implementation framework” for “ethnic studies” in Minnesota, has argued the United States must be “overthrown” and “deconstructed, period,” because it is “irreversibly racist.”
Lozenski, a self-proclaimed critical race theorist, made the comments in Spring 2022. They are going viral on X (formerly Twitter) again after being shared by Donald Trump ally and former Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
“[W]e can’t be like, ‘Oh, no, Critical Race Theory is just about telling our stories and diversity’—it’s not about that. It’s about overthrow; it’s insurgent,” Lozenski said, insisting that while critics of CRT do not, in his view, understand it, they “actually tell some truth” when they describe it as “anti-state.”
“You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S.,” he explained. “[I]t says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period.”
“Now ask yourself who’s the threat to our democracy & vote accordingly,” Ramaswamy said of the Walz appointee’s remarks.
Walz has a controversial background in education himself, promoting political systems antithetical to the United States to schoolchildren. For instance, he praised Chinese communism in 1991 as a system where “everyone is the same and everyone shares.”
This is a direct quote from Tim Walz’s education appointee in Minnesota:
“You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-US…CRT is an anti-state theory that says the U.S. needs to be deconstructed.”
Now ask yourself who’s the threat to our democracy & vote accordingly. pic.twitter.com/0XFQkJMSzT
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 19, 2024
