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57. Your comment sums up the problem with

CRT

"Isn't it the truth about..."

It is not "truth", it is a different perspective and interpretation of history. No different than

Marxist
Annales School
Big Event
Big Man
Counterfactual
Modernist
Postmodernist
Cyclical
Linear
Metahistory
Microhistory
Propagandist

interpretations of history.

The concerning thing about CRT is that it has become the be all and end all way of interpreting societies specifically American and the other schools and perspectives have been rejected in favor the "new shiny object" in the field. If someone disagrees with its applicability (especially as a white academic), they risk having the CRT advocates and their allies collapsing in on that person (not their work but the person) with a tar and feathering.

Now, I am not saying that CRT is wrong, it certainly has its place and applicability, but it is nowhere as universally applicable across all American history.

BTW, this is nothing new.

CRT has been around for 30 or so years and was folded into the existing historiography but then along came the 1619 Project. This project focused the CRT advocates (and those who are willing) that this is (queue choirs of angels) gospel TRUTH. This observation (and objection) has been floating around for the last 20 or so years.