It scares me when I see liberals assume that the CRT fight is bound to backfire. McCarthyism successfully suppressed-the-hell out of glaring, powerful truths, leading to a 70-yr of attrition of worker's rights & labor power, turning basic socialist concepts into boogeymen.
"How can you ban teaching truth? How can you ban conversations about the fundamental power dynamics that make sense of our history and present?" Uhhhhh....yeah, remember how our media tells us that providing medical care or family leave are "radical leftist positions"? Like that.
There are liberals in this U.S. who genuinely consider themselves progressive, who lick Elon Musk's boots and spit at Bernie Sanders. The amount of coordinated suppression of socialist thought that it's taken to achieve a populace like that for these oligarchs...I mean, hats off
Both leftist thought and CRT lay bare the immoral rot at the heart of conservativism (and if you want a two-fer, check out BLACK MARXISM by Cedric Robinson), and so the right will never stop trying to suppress these ideas. And there's no magical guarantee that "truth will out."
Honestly, these theories expose the immoral rot at the heart of capitalism itself, which Dems aren't too crazy about either--which is why you don't see Dems going up in arms to defend leftist and Black radical speech. They shrug & allow our politics to swing ever-to-the-right.
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