1/ If you attack critical race theory, singling out Ibram Kendi & Robin DiAngelo (who actually aren't crits & whose arguments differ), then Derrick Bell (who was a crit but differed from both of them) you show you don't understand CRT...
2/ And likely haven't actually read any of the work you're critiquing closely or considered the nuances of antiracist argumentation. Kendi is not DiAngelo is not Bell is not Oluo is not McIntosh is not Crenshaw is not hooks is not Anderson is not Dyson is not West is not Davis...
3/ ...is not Darity is not Bonilla-Silva is not Feagin is not Lopez is not Rankine is not Wilkerson is not Yancy is not Glaude is not Delgado and Stefancic is not Kelley is not Sue is not Horne...
4/ is not Taylor is not Coates is not Armour is not me, etc. Collectively condemning all antiracism as "wokeism" is intellectual laziness and supreme bad faith...
5/ It's what you do when you seek to throw buzzwords around that you can't define and smear everyone who says racism is a real and persistent problem in America because you wish to maintain the existing racial hierarchies and believe them to be legitimate...
6/ It's the same w/attacking intersectionality based on the misuse of the concept by a handful of so-called antiracist activists (who falsely think it means there's a hierarchy of oppression & greater legitimacy to the opinions of those w/more marginalized identities)...
7/ The right just sets up straw men when they attack CRT w/o actually engaging its core tenets (or flatly misrepresenting them), or intersectionality or antiracism itself. Like "woke" and "cancel culture" these words have no meaning in the mouths of the cynics who deploy them...
8/ It's sad. There are good debates/discussions to have (we in the antiracist community have them w/each other regularly). All are welcome to engage but if you haven't ever demonstrated a commitment to fighting racism (or even acknowledging it) don't expect to be taken seriously.
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