It increasingly seems like "critical race theory" is the 2020s discursive equivalent of "communism" in the 1950s: it refers both to a real thing that can be criticized and an all-encompassing phantasm used to justify state repression of leftists
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absolutely, i meant Soviet communism
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Right -- the particular shell game played was that the real Soviet Union, with all its legitimate flaws, was conflated with an almost entirely imaginary domestic communism to smear left. With CRT discourse there's not even that real external foe to give threat heft.
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