Thread by @GPIngersoll

I keep seeing this assertion that conservatives don’t know what critical race theory is, and it’s flat out wrong.

https://twitter.com/slate/status/1403783229589659662

For a little more than a year, the proponents of this destructive ideology have been rebranding it “diversity training,” and when conservatives called bullshit and somewhat successfully started identifying it in pedagogy and policy, the new line is they don’t know what it is.

Ofc someone asked me to explain it, and so I did. It’s not a very difficult concept to summarize.

https://twitter.com/gpingersoll/status/1403785559135379464

We don’t need to be teaching black children they are born into a machine hellbent on their destruction and white children their skin color makes them morally inferior. This should be obvious, but for some reason, ppl in media keep referring to this crap as “diversity training.”

This is a good point, and it makes sense considering CRT’s intellectual roots.

Any resistance is simply a failure to understand or execute correctly.

https://twitter.com/copyofone/status/1403788469642608642

The absurdity of all this is that the drafters of our founding documents — based on the fundamentals of the enlightenment — KNEW that it would result in the end of slavery. They knew that it would empower people of all stripes to find justice.

One of the major reasons the (old and good) ACLU defended Nazis in Skokie was because they KNEW the First Amendment was necessary for the Civil Rights movement. (The old director said as much in an interview with Reason.)

CRT acolytes, on the other hand, know

They cannot deconstruct the current values and replace them with explicitly race-based structures if people are allowed to debate the merits of their ideas.

And so now the First Amendment is in their sights. Bill Maher basically just said it yesterday, any criticism is conflated

With white supremacy itself.

If they could repeal the First Amendment, they would, but they might not even need to if they can successfully rebrand this movement as “diversity training” and anyone against it as flat out bigoted.

Ignore them. It isn’t true. Keep fighting.

No need to “conflate.”

NHJ’s opener is obviously grounded in CRT. The idea that the country was founded to preserve slavery is itself a product of the CRT worldview, which loosely posits that the entirety of America perpetuates white supremacy.

Like her thesis, it isn’t true.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1403471520291332096

Also, lol, that we would want “nothing” taught about slavery. It’s a gigantic block of American history, and perhaps the most influential outside of the Revolution.

Obviously the alternative is NOT to drop slavery as a subject of study. Again, pure misdirection.

Not that it will surprise anyone, but CRT in part relies on a kind of myth making.

It is flatly FALSE that “most” kids learn slavery “was not so bad.”

I’m not sure what universe Joy occupies, but it isn’t grounded in reality.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1403471521876779011

I was a kid 30 years ago and was taught about the founders owning slaves.

Again, flat out false that current pedagogy “omits” this fact.

CRT acolytes simply cannot win without lying and suppression.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1403471523357265927

Joy here does what so many others do, provides a false choice.

If we don’t teach CRT, kids won’t learn about slavery or the trail of tears.

IT IS NOT TRUE.

Kids learn this stuff as a matter of course. What CRT wants to teach is totally different.