Thread by @TomLevenson

The tweet above is a poor gloss on the article being touted. I agree with a fair amount of that article, more than I usually do with @conor64's work.

But I disagree with a lot, both small scale–the sneering contextless sideswipe re "Racecraft," for example and...1/

https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1413230429889458177

2/ Conor often deploys that presumption of risibility in his dislikes, BTW, rhetorical red meat but bad argument. The larger issue though is his both siderism which assumes the weaponized anti-CRT crowd & the racism-is-pervasive side are equivalent in either argument or power..

3/ I'm trying to learn to leap into every fight I'm invited to (or not), but the two sides are not mirror images. Among other things, there is a wide range of different types of evidence that racism still plays a huge role in US daily life...

4/ And while there's an argument to be had (and happening) about the most effective ways to both inform people, including kids, & to address that fact, the anti-CRT movement is making any of those arguments; it's denying both determinable facts of history & current experience...

5/ [isn't!...not "anti-CRT is making..."] Above all, it might be worth noting in a pice like @conor64's that the legislatures advancing anti-CRT/classroom indoctrination bills reflect, in many cases, the kind of systemic racism that merits discussion, in school and society...

6/ After all, the only laws that GOP legislators are more eager to pass than performative anti-anti-racism ones are those that limit access to voting and preserve race-centered advantages in gerrymandering and the like.

This entire discussion is built on bad faith. /fin

Not to. Not to.

Learning not to leap into every fight I'm invited to (or to which I invite myself.