Ibram X. Kendi: Critical race theory is not anti-white.
Critical race theorists: Yes, it is.
Critical race theorists: Yes, it is.
The critical race theorists like to play language games—"we are against whiteness, not white people"; "we want to 'abolish the white race' as a social construct, not as a physical population"—but their animus is clear to anyone with basic reading comprehension.
In the past year, we have exposed critical race theory to the public using their own words and original source documents. The polling data now indicates 2:1 opposition against CRT, including majorities of Latino and Asian parents.
Now clowns like Kendi want to do damage control.
Now clowns like Kendi want to do damage control.
The problem is that Kendi is a one-trick magician: he calls everything "racist" and "white supremacist." This might have had some shock factor five years ago, but now it's stale, boring, and obviously false in most cases. The linguistic value has been cannibalized.
They'll try to supercharge this rhetoric with new variations, but it won't work. The public doesn't want nonstop racialist ideology, race essentialism, and collective guilt. Even the NY Times is starting to soften its line and put a little distance between itself and CRT.
I'm optimistic about the fight against critical race theory. We can win by exposing the ideology and crafting policy to restrict it in public institutions, eliminate taxpayer funding for activists, and provide maximum school choice for parents. Not easy, but eminently possible.
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