Rex Kerr
2 min readJan 16, 2023

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That seems to be the underlying suggestion behind, "We will start this topic with CRT because it is a topic I am certainly less apt to speak on (not being black and all.)" And anyway, "systemic racism" and "CRT" are not the same thing. But if that isn't what you meant, no worries...I wasn't using it as a premise from which I was drawing any particular conclusion.

The rest of your response seems similarly unresponsive to what I actually said, and to the intricacies of the actual topic. For instance, I referenced a specific grade school curriculum that basically covers the main tenets of CRT, and you just reiterate that no child is learning CRT!

Likewise, you change my criticism that CRT is not a science into that all of it is subjective. But that's not what I said. I said what I said for good reason, and was careful to say what I meant. If I had meant that all of CRT was subjective, I would have said so. As a critical theory, CRT is perfectly happy to use scientific or science-like results when they happen to support the goal...they just allow themselves the tools to reject scientific results when they don't support the goal, and I said so, and I provided a source from CRT authors that backs up that claim.

There are two issues with "CRT". One is the right-wing fearmongering that uses the label "CRT" to foster a moral panic about things that aren't even happening. I'm not going to defend that mess at all, except to point out that it wasn't actually triggered by literally nothing; it was triggered by something that could be a real concern, but them blown so far out of proportion that it itself is the concern. (Indeed, the anti-CRT rhetoric is so far off target that a lot of the supposed "anti-CRT" legislation actually adopts things that would admit and even promote the teaching of a good fraction of actual CRT!)

But the other issue is that the real CRT, construed broadly as a path towards racial justice (which Delgado and Stefancic, at least, happily endorse), is deeply flawed. And you don't seem to understand the content of actual CRT well enough to say anything sensible about it, despite me giving you ample opportunity to do so.

So all I see is that you have fallen just as deeply for the left-wing mischaracterization of CRT that came up as the talking-point-level counter to the right-wing mischaracterization of CRT, as have the right-wingers who believe their side's mischaracterization.

You tell me to do some research on it, but I provided quotes and evidence, and you provided only rhetoric, without showing any evidence that you actually know what you're talking about.

And it is that lack of displayed knowledge that prompted me to write the sentence that you quoted.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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