Thread by @wesyang

Calling intersectional Kendi-DiAngeloism "Critical Race Theory" was always going to fall prey to the selective pedantry of the left professoriat

It had to become much coarser, stupider, and more propagandistic to arrive at this point where this is being taught to STEM teachers...

But really all the fundamental errors in reasoning and proportionality were present in those articles appearing in Harvard Law Review in 1983

People who talk like this in 2021, speaking a jargon existing in a self-enclosed system of reference immune to correction or criticism, are the weaponized superbug version of the core CRT claims

But this resulting product has gone through decades of being fashioned into a blunt instrument of coercion, in chat rooms, tumblr posts, academic echo chambers, flame wars, campus and workplace meltdowns

We need a new term to describe this vision of the world as a matrix of interlocking oppression. P

People who want to analyze this sociological phenomenon without taking on the baggage of terms like "Cultural Marxism" are turning to a useful neologism: hedgehogreview.com/blog/thr/posts…

The original stuff was more sophisticated than the inane crap being taught in diversity seminars throughout corporate America. But that's really not saying much!

But it's why one should avoid calling the crap "CRT"

You want to avoid sounding Glenn Beck-ish or Trump Jr.-ish (or like lefties ascribing the war in Iraq to Leo Strauss) and recognize that the reason-resistant superbug that took over institutional America in 2020 is an 8th generation mutated variant

What makes the ideological succession distinctive is the belief that the different matrices of oppression are unitary and must be resisted all at once -- abolish prisons, police, standardized testing, the gender binary, whiteness, nuclear families, conceived as a single project

abolish morphological preferences, distinctions between health and unhealth, abolish merit, abolish non-inclusive sexual preferences, abolish all hierarchies, abolish anthropocentrism, etc.

Everybody knows this is bad, nobody defends this crap. Except, apparently, for the people who run our universities, school boards, foundations, charitable organizations, and tech companies.