2. What I'd add to the conversation is that right-wing CRT discourse is a mythology of a familiar sort: the story of innocent (implicitly white) children children corrupted by alien forces. The same battle as over evolution, school prayer, sex ed, LGBTQ students & teachers etc.
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3. In the current battle, liberals are pretty heavily invested in fact checking (i.e. CRT isn't really what it is accused of & isn't taught in public schools). This has some value to broader public but doesn't address the emotional core of the panic.
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4. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to fact check a myth. That's the problem liberals have grappled with since Trump era. A myth has narrative power & is best countered not just by fact checking but by a counter-narrative. Which means political organizing.
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5. One obvious counter-narrative to organize around is to talk about how racism is real, how growing up in a racist society is bad for children. More thoughts here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-the-children?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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