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It's remarkable how semantic many major arguments are. When left- debaters say "critical race theory does not exist" in high schools or ed schools, they are NOT denying that Zinn/1619/etc curricula are common - they are making the technical claim that crit. pedagogy is not CRT.
(2) Examples of this abound. I, too, would think that "racism is the biggest current problem for Black people," if I accepted the definition of 'racism' as being "any system within which Black people perform badly, for literally any reason."
But, I don't. #word_games_matter
But, I don't. #word_games_matter
(3) I'm not going to respond to every comment - writing book - but two quick notes:
(a) my response to intentional semantic confusion is the old good-faith "define your terms" technique. This is what I mean by or "ethno-Marxism" or "critical theory." city-journal.org/what-is-critic…
(a) my response to intentional semantic confusion is the old good-faith "define your terms" technique. This is what I mean by or "ethno-Marxism" or "critical theory." city-journal.org/what-is-critic…
