Thread by @deonteleologist

I used to hold @cvaldary to a higher standard than many anti-CRT voices in the culture war, and I'm afraid I can't say that's true anymore.

This article is flooded with falsehoods from the first sentence, which identifies CRT as "a social science."
newsweek.com/black-people-a…

Valdary claims CRT "has been popularized by people like Ibrahim [sic] X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo" & that in practice CRT has manifested as "demonization of white students." It's clear from the framing she means K-12; I'd love to know which curricula include law review articles.

Valdary thinks the most fundamental problem with CRT is deeper still: "It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the complexities of our social and political realities, reducing them to a single factor: racism."

I am unaware of any CRT scholar ever doing any such thing.

The upshot of Valdary's argument: "racism is not an invincible bogeyman. It's not an all-powerful force permeating everything and keeping all black people down. The opposite is true: It can be brought to kneel by a strong, robust, and vigorous black community."

Interesting...

This seems to regard the Civil Rights Movement as a nearly unqualified success story--marred only by the assassinations of the great leaders who represented it.

I wonder how Valdary would tackle the challenges posed by Bell, who is conspicuously absent from her analysis of CRT.