The CRT moral panic is built on a mixture of deliberately obtuse language (in other words, bullshit) and misleading branding.
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One irony I didn't have room to include is that the anti-CRT advocates connect CRT theorists to diversity training as a big gotcha. But actual CRT theorists are themselves either doubtful of such trainings (Crenshaw) or certainly didn't model them in their own teaching (Bell). 
Bullshit performs different tasks:
*conveys sophistication, a reassurance that “this is a smart man, an intellectual"
*establishes conspiratorial beliefs
*provides coded language that signals in-group membership.
*denies any simpler alternative explanations
*enables branding
*conveys sophistication, a reassurance that “this is a smart man, an intellectual"
*establishes conspiratorial beliefs
*provides coded language that signals in-group membership.
*denies any simpler alternative explanations
*enables branding
Branding is related to bullshit, but plays different roles in policy discourse:
*rebrands popular ideas into negative frames
*facilitates mass communication
*creates heuristics that upend rational thinking
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*rebrands popular ideas into negative frames
*facilitates mass communication
*creates heuristics that upend rational thinking
*makes money for the brand owners donmoynihan.substack.com/p/bullshit-bra…
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