Essential point!https://twitter.com/JoshuaHol/status/1405901907466543105 …
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Because of elite overproduction we have too many over-educated pundits trying to prove they know what CRT is and have a developed critique of it, when all these anti-CRT bills (or anti-"CRT") are not about CRT at all but messaging bills (the message being "ooga-booga").
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If someone is saying "A bunch of Jews created CRT to stir up race war in America & kill white people" you don't respond by saying, "Well, I have a much more modulated criticism of Adorno & Horkheimer's's Dialectic of Enlightenment." You say "that's an anti-Semitic myth."
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Here's Chuck Woolery being fairly explicit of the underlying narrative.pic.twitter.com/j8kfcjRuM8
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I keep going back to this but the right has created a bogeyman they are calling "CRT." To turn this into a conversation about the real CRT rather than about scare-mongering is a waste of time.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-as-a-bogeyman?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
If they did understand what actual CRT was, though, they would hate it just as much as they hate the imaginary CRT they have in their heads.
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A key part of the mythology is evil people (often explicitly evil Jews) corrupting innocent children. Harder to do that if you recognize it's a grad school theory.
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Yes, that's all very bad. I'm just unconvinced these bills would have been v. different if the GOP had confined its attacks to the 1619 Project and DEI instruction for schools.
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I think it's pretty telling that they don't want to engage in the specifics of things that have real constituencies (teaching more slavery history, diversity training) and instead focus on myths about Frankfurt School.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I haven't read that deeply in the legislative debates over the various bills, but did GOP legislators really talk more about Adorno than about the 1619 Project?
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