I'm a little surprised that @DavidAFrench still doesn't realize that this "definition" he keeps using is not in the least authoritative and was NOT created or approved by UCLA School of Public Affairs.

The truth is, it comes from a group of UCLA students who had organized a 1/ ImageImageImage
2/ course on “Critical Race Studies” in 2009. The slightest research would have revealed this. See spacrs.wordpress.com/history/ for the proper background.

But it's par for the course with these guys' on CRT. I don't know if it's hubris or just age old White supremacy, they just don't
3/ want to do the homework before authoritatively pronouncing.

I suppose French could claim, as he did in last year's piece, that he was trained in CRT in college 30 years ago because all of his professors at Harvard were CRT.

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4/4 But I'm pretty sure EVERY CRT founder would be GREATLY surprised by this claim, hahaha. (Is he confusing CRT with CLS? Or confusing it w/ Legal Realist approach broadly?)

At any rate, yet another piece by the "good conservatives" that demonstrates continued lack of study.

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4 Nov
So, we know Christopher Rufo is redefining terms to wage political warfare. He's told us. But many folks respond that he is just doing what antiracists have done by, e.g., "changing the definition of racism."

This is a silly claim, and I'll explain why.

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2/ I would argue that the "new" or "changed" definition of "racism" is the modern White anti-antiracists' "definition," as developed in the era of racial retrenchment (backlash) following the Civil Rights Movement.
3/ For example, here is the first dictionary definition of "racism": h/t @rasmansa Image
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3 Nov
In light of these anti-CRT laws re: education, it is important to understand that there has been a couple hundred years of school curriculum and K - 12 teaching that has made children of color much more than just uncomfortable, and this is no exception in today.

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2/ Many have rightly suggested that parents of color should also show up to school board meetings and petition legislators to put an end to this as well. And we must. The problem is, those with power (mainly White people, even many "progressives") will ultimately opt for
3/ "race-neutral" readings and texts. This might seem grand and liberal on its face, but, as discussed the other day, those with power (mainly White people) almost always see books covering historical events with Black people as "black history" and therefore "racial," but books
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25 Oct
I mean, Reagan appointed Clarence Thomas to be Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and nominated Robert Bork for SCOTUS. What more do you need to know?

Or, maybe just listen to our first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. In 1987 he was 1/
2/ asked by columnist Carl T. Rowan to “rate some of the Presidents and their impact on racial justice in his lifetime,” specifically, “”What about Ronald Reagan?”; Marshall’s response was devastating:

"Justice Marshall: 'The bottom.'

Mr. Rowan: 'The bottom?'
3/ "Justice Marshall: 'Honestly. I think he’s down with Hoover and that group. Wilson. When we really didn’t have a chance.'

Mr. Rowan: 'Yet he’s been one of the most popular Presidents the country ever had in the polls.'
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25 Oct
A small portion of Reagan's civil rights retrenchment:

"Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it 'humiliating to the South'), and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. 1/
2/ "'If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house,' he said, 'he has a right to do so.' After the Republican convention in 1980, Reagan travelled to the county fair in Neshoba, Mississippi, where, in 1964, three Freedom Riders
3/ "had been slain by the Ku Klux Klan. Before an all-white crowd of tens of thousands, Reagan declared: 'I believe in states' rights'.

As president, Reagan aligned his justice department on the side of segregation, supporting the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in its case
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24 Oct
While considering the supposedly hyper political state of the current American church, I suggest that we be careful not to fall into the error of believing there is such thing as an apolitical church, nor into attempting to somehow politically neutralize the church.

For 1/
2/ example, as U.S. churches and denominations were splitting over the political issue of slavery in the 1850s and 60s, many of the fiercest defenders of slavery also complained of the churches transgressing their mission and entering to politics by condemning slavery.
3/ See, e.g., Presbyterian minister James Henley Thornwell, an ardent apologist for the Southern institution of slavery. Thornwell was deeply involved in the national debate over slavery and between Old and New School American Presbyterians. In 1851 he authored a report
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I was giving a presentation on CRT a bit back, and one of the participants said that he'd never heard it explained that way, and if CRT really was what I was saying, then why are none of the louder public voices explaining it that way? My answer was, they very much are! But 1/
2/ few, it is clear, care to actually listen to real CRT scholars. Further, if you keep going to Fox News, Breitbart, National Review, The Federalist, Christian bloggers, etc., to get your info on CRT, then of course you're only going to hear the hair-raising BS explanations.
3/ CRT scholars have been working tirelessly to correct the record on their work; the problem is the lack of amplifiers and listeners.

So, in order to demonstrate this, here are a list of popular level articles published for popular access that we COULD all accept as verified
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