One frustration “anti-woke” critics have with a thread like this is that its central complaint is fundamentally about the problem of mislabeling, about linguistic imprecision, rather than about the propriety of the various initiatives being described as “CRT”
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1402663627828695044
This is one of @olivertraldi's points in his piece for @ArcDigi yesterday.
He calls it a form of "language control and gatekeeping."
arcdigital.media/p/whats-in-a-n…
He calls it a form of "language control and gatekeeping."
arcdigital.media/p/whats-in-a-n…
It is obviously important to journalistically check rhetorical maneuvers by activists against the facts. It's equally obvious that this classificatory move shouldn't be the main focus of our concern.
Okay, so it turns out what these people are most worried about isn't, strictly speaking, "critical race theory" but some consultant-driven pop racial sensitivity pablum. What now? So they're using the wrong label. Fine. Can we move to debating the merits of the ideas, or...?
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