Texas professor blasts faculty as they pass resolution promoting critical race theory
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The resolution was passed 41-5.
A finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin went viral this week after voicing his opposition to a school resolution to "defend academic freedom" by allowing the promotion of critical race theory in classrooms.
In a video that has been viewed over 10,000 times, Associate Professor of Finance Dr. Richard Lowery spoke out against a resolution by the faculty council at UT Austin affirming the "fundamental rights" of professors to push critical race theory in classrooms.
"Me opposing the UT-Austin Faculty Council resolution in support of teaching of Critical Race Theory and Critical Gender Justice or whatever, both at the university level and in K-12," Lowery posted along with a clip of his comments from the meeting where the resolution passed by a margin of 41-5. "The resolution opposes any democratic oversight of curriculum set by gvt bureaucrats."
Lowery, who has been at the university since 2009, argues in the clip that promoting critical race theory is antithetical to academic freedom, and a resolution that truly intended to support academic freedom would not have specifically included politically charged "race and gender theory…