[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I agree but I also think a large part of the current problem is socio-political theory (e.g. Critical Race Theory) not being discussed as theory, but instead taught or pushed as fact, with critics branded simply "wrong" (or worse) even when doing something as basic as playing devil's advocate to further the theory... which is of course the antithesis of an academic discussion.

If something like CRT (or the BLM movement, for that matter) isn't open to examination or criticism, or at least is often not providing logically sound philosophical defenses of the theory but instead relying on ad-hominem against the critic, then they stop being political theory and become political dogma.

CRT is not even that controversial really. If we take Badenochs point, there's some weird suggestion in there that schools could be promoting abolition of police forces and prisons, and I just find it impossible to believe this is happening without any evidence.

Then she uses an anecdote about a policeman being called the n-word as the reason she knows that BLM is a political movement.

This is pure theatre, there is nothing intellectually honest she's presenting as any kind of counter if she wanted to play devils advocate. There is no discussion here; it's "we're not this, we shouldn't teach that." It's being used for culture war purposes.

She is not encouraging or advocating any discussion on anything, and the bigger problem for those in power isn't that CRT exists, it's that the ideology that created the curriculum in the first place is being challenged.