Thread by @deonteleologist

Here's James Lindsay introducing himself, in his testimony in support of a bill that would effectively ban the teaching of systemic or institutional racism in NH schools, as an expert (eventually even "recognized as a world-level expert"!) in critical race theory. 1/n

This clip is in fact a perfect distillation of his entire grift against CRT. He takes a somewhat controversial claim from critical race theorists, that racism is ordinary rather than aberrational in American life, and literally reduces it to a Robin DiAngelo quote. 2/n

"Other scholars." Nice, James. Didn't want to name drop someone who's increasingly being disavowed by academics, did ya now? 3/n

James has a nice Freudian slip in trying to explain why this bill is Good, Actually. What he does not address is the way "race or sex stereotyping" is defined in the bill. 4/n

I think the highlighted bits in orange are all things that can be reasonably construed as already covered by the Civil Rights Act. The way they define "race and sex stereotyping," however, would mean prohibiting teaching that addresses existing significant disparities. 5/n

Sorry, let me correct that. (B) is absolutely stupid and not covered by the Civil Rights Act. 6/n

Here is a funny clip I'm including because of James Lindsay looking like a turtle as he insists that he be called Dr. Lindsay because of his 2 + 2 = 4 ass dissertation. Of course, as far as I know, James hasn't made death threats, though he's recently embraced antisemitism. 7/n

Oh my god. Get over yourself, dude. [fin]