Thread by @AlsoACarpenter

This tweet, my friend, is complete and ignorant nonsense.

Clearly there are a couple ways developing to position oneself in this debate.

You can (1) say CRT is incompatible with Christianity, (2) say it is compatible, or (3) play this game that I’m losing patience for—the

https://twitter.com/jdgreear/status/1334563632764620801

2/ “CRT teaches x, y, z, so it is actually incompatible; but we don’t’ need CRT to oppose racism anyhow, and the bad folks are illegitimately calling everything CRT in order to avoid dealing with racism.”

3/ While I get the draw to this latter position, so long as it is based on plain slander of CRT scholars—incessantly claiming that they teach what they do not and deeply distorting the arguments based on pure ignorance and/or malice—then it is just as unchristian and

4/ counterproductive to antiracism and just plain basic Christian morality as those in the SBC you pretend to be critiquing. Intellectual honesty should still be a Christian value. Not misrepresenting fellow image bearers should still be a Christina value.

5/ Not slandering scholars, even if they are not Christians, who have nevertheless dedicated their lives to serving the vulnerable, should still be a Christian value. I mean, have you even spoken in real life with the scholars you are lying about?

6/ I have, and they wonder why you all say such ignorant and malicious things about them. And it really is malicious and unacceptable, and you aren't actually distinguishing yourself from those charlatans in the SBC you think you are opposing.

7/ Enough with it. Just quit talking about CRT until you’ve studied it enough to quit positing lies and absurdities. Or, if that's not your thing, maybe start by getting in dialogue with the very people you’re willing to throw under the bus for your own gain.

8/ That’s what we call LIVING compatibly with Christianity.

(I'm beginning to wonder if that's even a value anymore in some quarters; the premium seems entirely on so-called "worldview" compatibility and other such 20th century nonsense.)

9/ And please, folks, quit telling me that these folks have good intentions and are really trying to oppose racism. That may be, but they're also lying, distorting, mischaracterizing, and frankly delusional as to how to understand and address American racism.

10/ They LITERALLY condemn the tools given them to do it, thumbing their noses at God's providence and common grace, all the while refusing to understand what they are even talking about, not loving neighbor enough to research before condemning.

11/ Do non-Christians not deserve basic neighbor love? So I frankly don't care what their intentions are. They are doing harm, and, it seems to me, for their own gain, not out of genuine antiracist concern. They should just say, "I don't know CRT that well, but I'm committed to

12/ learning and opposing racism as it actually exists in Church and in society," rather than thinking they're gonna play a coherent middle by condemning CRT with flimsy, ignorant, malicious justification.

Now I'm just rambling, sorry. Just increasingly frustrated.

13/13 Anyhow, just sayin'. It's becoming exhausting to hear this nonsense.