Ok, but the trouble is (as the campaigns against it acknowledge) no pre-collegiate schools are explicitly teaching “Critical Race Theory.” So you get a hunt for supposedly suspicious phrases like “systemic racism” or “white supremacy.”
https://twitter.com/jonahdispatch/status/1404160941420384270
One guide for parents, which warns that “they are trying to culturally replace you,” suggests watching out for any of these pernicious CRT buzzwords, many of which would be involved in any serious discussion of race in American history. americarenewing.com/issues/list-cr…
The pop definitions of CRT I see lately tend to involve a list of supposed “tenets” that invariably include obviously pernicious claims almost nobody would endorse and what ought at this point to be rather banal truisms.
It’s always something like “CRT teaches *all white people are inherently wicked *racism is not merely a matter of individual prejudice, but also a complex of institutional norms & policies that systematically disadvantage non-whites”
It’s not that there aren’t dubious or objectionable claims made by various people working under the broad rubric of CRT; it’s that the school-board-definitions all seem incredibly poorly calibrated in a way that’s designed to chill arguments that are either true or plausible.
Or, if one is less charitably inclined, well calibrated to have that effect.
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