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AxemRedRanger posted...

My understanding of critical race theory is that it says America has a system of white supremacy and white privilege, that this is the main reason for continued unequal racial outcomes, that just changing to colorblind laws and policies has not been and is not enough to remedy this, and critical race theory examines how this all plays out.

Basically no schools are actually teaching Critical Race Theory but there are indeed "all kinds of social/cultural movements that they're opposed to that come out of certain sectors of the contemporary intelligentsia. Cancel culture, wokism, anti-racism, etc" that seem to share Critical Race Theory's basic worldview that many find objectionable and some of these are indeed starting to spread into schools here and there?

So regardless of Republican cleverness or perfidy in branding stuff as "Critical Race Theory", all the objections about "CRT isn't actually being taught" seem...rather hollow? "Critical race theory isn't being taught anywhere, you shouldn't worry about it, it's just stuff by a bunch of fellow travellers that basically share the same worldview." Oh.

I think CRT in an academic sense is more nuanced than that and may not necessarily have a conclusion. Certainly not a political conclusion or a policy prescription. I saw the term in school, 8+ years ago. But I doubt anything being titled as CRT is being taught below college level.

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