Thread by @RBrulin

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman This is probably true: "critical race theory is the perfect ideology for affluent progressive whites who want nothing to change—but who still want to feel like the heroes of a story about social justice." But COUNTLESS progressives are not affluent/white & DO want real change

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman Also: you caricature the 1776 Project: its authors say "we should consider whether..." & the entire note u link to is devoted to how this idea was phrased & rephrased, is about nuance. In your version leftists speak in absolutes: "it must be that," "cannot be," "it is proof that"

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman & there is this (insulting?) caricature of the social justice mvt. Do u truly believe that everyone in this broad, diverse mvt follows just one theory? Thinks only in terms of power & only as it applies to race? That they all agree? Never talk, debate, fight over these issues?

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman Note also that even among academics who publish papers on critical race theory, it is not the case that this one theory is all they teach in classroom. It may not even be central to their teaching (esp. at undergrad level.) I teach about social justice & very rarely bring up CRT

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman and also, well:

https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1369648895836495874?s=20

@bungarsargon @JoinPersuasion @Yascha_Mounk @TomRachman Oh and also, Batya: this was you in 2019. What changed? (h/t to @DavidKlion )