When I deny that the current versions of CRT are related to the Civil Rights Movement, I assert this because:
A) CRT and antiracism are obsessed with dividing people into "colors" and treating them differently on the basis of "color."
B) The Platform of CRT and antiracism have no meaningful mechanism for improving the lives of the poor minority populations they pretend to serve.
C) CRT and antiracism excel at denying data relating to their mission (including police statistics and economic facts, such as the fact that 60% of Americans who identify as "black" are middle class or above).
D) CRT and antiracism advocates do not extol the teachings of Martin Luther King. In fact, King's teachings are barely mentioned in training materials.
There are other difference too, but this is a sampling based upon some of the articles I've written recently.
Increasing numbers of people are starting to understand that CRT and "antiracism" have no meaning connection to do with the traditional Civil Rights Movement, but now they are increasingly denying that CRT and "antiracism" are being taught in schools. I see this as motivated reasoning based on the fact that most of these people (the ones I know) are only exposed to left-leaning legacy media. These people admit of only a few outliers and deny that CRT or antiracism is a significant problem in the U.S. I disagree, based on these resources:
The recent case of Dana stangel-Plowe, former teacher at a school in Englewood.
The recent case of Paul Rossi.
The observations of Andrew Gutmann, a former parent at Brearly School.
Christopher Rufo's reports based upon leaked training materials at numerous schools.
Chloe Valdary teaches a good-hearted program to diminish bigotry she compares to the CRT programs of which she is knowledgable.
Numerous reports by Parents Defending Education.
Numerous reports of attempted cancellation based on CRT here.
Reports at businesses by Counterweight.
Many more reports here, by Princetonians for Free Speech.
I have also been personally contacted by approximately a dozen people who work in academia who are afraid to speech honestly on issues because CRT permeates the campus
More reports here (Stanford) and here (Rutgers).
John McWhorter's receipt of numerous complaints (see the comments) here.
Another recent resource is Christopher Rufo's "Critical Race Theory Briefing Book."
There are numerous other reports, more of them surfacing every week. I will try to update this list periodically.
ranks of bad people who are really racist and sexist and transphobic. So now we have the spectacle of some of the least racist people and institutions on Earth issuing abject apologies, the kinds of apologies that would seem appropriate in an exit interview from the Ku Klux Klan, just rending themselves over their past sins. I've remained convinced that this fever will break at some point and that same people will step forward and acknowledge that while there's still a lot of work to do to address specific inequalities in our society, we have made tremendous progress. I mean, there is in fact less racism and sexism and transphobia at this moment in America, in particular in our institutions, than there has ever been anywhere on earth, and not to acknowledge that is becoming increasingly perverse.
