Heyyyyy wait a second.
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/you-are-not-a-racist-to-criticize
The idea that its merely conservatives taking issue with this is as flagrantly false as certain assertions that this isn't being taught in public schools.
As indicated in Loudon County Virginia, if anyone is being targeted its parents speaking out against this insidious nonsense being spewed as fact with absolutely no room for dissent.
I appreciate John McWhorter tremendously, I own a couple of his books from my undergrad days and go back to them with relative frequency, his etymological work on Black English is fascinating, and I'd be thrilled to read more of his content around the continued blending/utilization of Black English in 'influencer culture'. I think he fails to take the larger view in his examination of CRT, however, because of his own stakes in his personal and professional narrative. The arguments that you are coopting through him and that video link
are critical race theory. The idea that a social ideology ("woke activism") combined with an intersection of institutions and laws (affirmative action, the civil rights act, equity-oriented hiring strategies) are creating poor outcomes for people of color (teaching them that they don't have self-efficacy and that they are perpetual victims) - is all critical race theory.
Now, a lot of people will invoke no-true-scotsman type fallacies and try to create more rigid definitions of their ideal vision of the outcomes of crt, but the act of engaging in a critical examination of how the intersections of societal narratives, laws, and institutions impact poc is literally all critical race theory. By engaging is this debate
you are engaging in the practice of crt.
The reason why crt is more appropriate in college curricula is that it is extremely difficult to spend the time in a public school to work your way through the critical examinations of the intersections of social factors, history, and law on individuals and populations.
Finally, I will admit I do not pay much attention to the cases that find their way to national media regarding CRT, so I have absolutely no background in what is happening in Loudon County Virginia. Especially after I've seen so many facts distorted in the transition from classroom to media outlet first-hand, I don't find it interesting or useful to try to piece together what is happening in districts where I have no real vested interest. That being said, I do not doubt for an instance that shitty teachers are crudely and disastrously implementing poorly thought out units that emphasize race around the country. I will always attribute that to shitty/inconsistent standards in training, professional development, and compensation among public school teachers in this country. You pay teachers more and pay more for professional development, and you get fewer instances of shitty teachers who try to engage with poorly thought out political agendas in the classroom.
tldr - John McWhorter actively does CRT, and you get better teachers and school districts with more investment in education.
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