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In reply to the discussion: WP: "Why conservatives really fear Critical Race Theory" [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)13. It's also very suspicious that people who never thought for a second about "Critical Race Theory"
in the past and can't tell you what it is to save their lives, suddenly in the past few weeks use it as an attack point and comeback in every discussion about race. It's obvious that somewhere a decision was made to add CRT to the lexicon of Luntz-type buzzwords to terrify and provoke conservatives and intimidate progressives into silence.
Unfortunately, like most racially-provocative buzzwords, plenty of progressives have adopted them and are helping to weaponized them in service to racist conservatives to the point that it's sometimes difficult to tell our white allies apart from racists on the other side.
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You're the one who said you were too busy working to answer a question about what you weren't .
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#23
You're not stupid. Just ill-informed about the law and the practice thereof
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#42
Uhm, define any of those 3 without using right wing buzzwords please.
Humanist_Activist
May 2021
#24
Not all scientific theories can be tested in a lab, there's also observational evidence...
Humanist_Activist
May 2021
#41
It never claimed to be a "scientific" theory - which is different from a social science theory,
Solly Mack
May 2021
#43
OK. Be dismissive. I wasn't being dismissive. I was explaining there is a difference.
Solly Mack
May 2021
#52
As is mine. And social theory can be tested through experiments, and evidence and data can be
Solly Mack
May 2021
#56
It's also very suspicious that people who never thought for a second about "Critical Race Theory"
StarfishSaver
May 2021
#13
The same people who "tried" to be non-racist also freaked out going 6 weeks without a hair cut.
Efilroft Sul
May 2021
#11
Talking about systems and how it intersects with individual human interaction...
Humanist_Activist
May 2021
#35
K&R. CRT gives us a vocabulary to talk about the white supremacy we live in (and that all white
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2021
#39