Season 9 of 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' returns with an episode on Critical Race Theory.
After over a month of waiting, HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver came back this past Sunday night with the premiere of its ninth season, thankfully with an audience present after the show endured a long period of a nearly empty studio. Indeed, the audience offered their emotive contribution, which added another layer to the controversial topic of discussion: Critical Race Theory, often shortened to CRT, and whether it should be taught in schools.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Oliver calls the fear around the school subject a “manufactured panic.” He further points out that some of those “who’ve been yelling about it the loudest” do not actually know what CRT is. This brings us back to Carlson, who admits that he has “never figured out what Critical Race Theory is.
To further support his argument that CRT is a “manufactured panic,” Oliver brought to attention the statistics that showed that Fox News had mentioned the term an astounding 4,707 only in 2021. However, Oliver also noted that their publicity against CRT worked because they managed to alienate the term CRT from the school subject, which is designed to alert students to the failings of the past and how to move forward into a better future.
At the end of the show, Oliver sums up the episode’s main point: “Whose discomfort are we prioritizing here?” he asks, referring to the protection of white sensibilities by banning CRT. Lastly, Oliver ends the episode with advice about not being afraid to address reality going forward:
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