Well the academic literature may not say this, but as a lot of recordings of CRT "teaching" in schools, universities and workplaces have revealed, CRT *teachers* have been documented as having said this and taught this.
Even one of the leading opponents of CRT Chris Rufo acknowledges the following:
" I read a lot of Critical Race Theory, for better or for worse, and there are certain ideas that I think are true, but I think what you’re pointing out is the premise of Critical Race Theory, right? The premise is that America has a history of, and really every country, I think Canada included, has a history of slavery, segregation, racism, and racial injustice. That’s undoubtedly true. I don’t know anyone who would disagree with that. But the problem is that Critical Race Theory often used that premise as a cudgel to beat people into submitting to their conclusions, which are that we should abandon systems of individual rights, meritocracy, capitalism, colorblindness, free speech, the Constitution, et cetera. And those are radical conclusions that I disagree with wholeheartedly, even if I can see that some of their premises are true, are correct, are accurate.
I think the idea about systemic racism, that’s an important point. I tend to think that systemic racism is real. For example, today, in a legal sense, there is systemic racism against Asian Americans in college admissions. That’s a fact, that’s a form of systemic race-based discrimination. I also think that a lot of the policies that we saw emerging in the 1960s, the anti-poverty policies of the Lyndon Johnson era, I think those actually resulted in systemic racism. If you look at the outcomes of those policies, even if they were well-intentioned, I think in many cases they made situations worse for people of all racial groups, but because of how poverty and race are correlated, they predominantly affected African-Americans. I’ve documented that in a film for PBS, for example."
So essentially to claim that CRT is ONLY about "analytical discipline" in an academic context is a misrepresentation of what many of the opponents of CRT actually object to. It's also a steelman for CRT, taking only the best of what Critical Race Theory actually manifests as, and putting it up against the worst of what the opponents of CRT manifest as.
I expect better from you Matthew.
