Thread by @JeffreyASachs

Randall Kennedy, who is nobody’s idea of a pro-woke free speech squish, is out with a scorching take on the anti-CRT Right.

prospect.org/civil-rights/r…

One more time:

“The right-wing campaign against racial equity discussion, however, eclipses by several degrees of magnitude left-wing censoriousness.”

“The power that the latter is able to mobilize is dramatically overborne by the power of the former, especially its demonstrated capacity to mobilize governmental authority in furtherance of its aims.”

“Disgraceful is the silence of so many other conservatives. The sentinels on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal are keenly sensitive to left-wing cancel culture. By contrast, they are deplorably complacent in the face of right-wing abusiveness.”

“The fact of the matter is that the episodes of overreaching by excessively “woke” educators that the right wing eagerly seizes upon and weaponizes are mainly props in the campaign against racial equity instruction in schools.”

“For the right-wing campaign is not really concerned with improving education. It is [mostly] a race-baiting ruse to gin up the Trumpian base, to vent the status anxieties of aggrieved whites, and to bait progressives into saying and doing things that alienate potential allies.”

Again, Randall Kennedy is no far left SJW. On the contrary, he’s been a staunch critic. So this ought to tell you something!

prospect.org/civil-rights/r…