The real reason you should be pissed off about Critical Race Theory
vol. 3 issue 30
Greetings,
What do you actually know about “critical race theory”?
If you regularly read docu-mental and listen to the accompanying podcasts, you know a lot more about it than you might suspect.
Honestly, until critical race theory, or CRT, became a real tornado in the minds of and on the tongues of certain politicians this year, I had never heard of it. Now it’s whipping around the halls of Congress, the media, and local governments thanks to the incendiary and bumptious bullshit from those who stand to lose a lot if you actually understand what CRT is.
Since they were the ones to bring it to all of our attention, let’s examine it.
Among the components of how the American Bar Association defines CRT, is that it is this:
The rejection of popular understandings about racism, such as arguments that confine racism to a few “bad apples.” CRT recognizes that racism is codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy. C…
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