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Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

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.

Hmm, I think the BLM issue is a complicated one because whilst it's false to define the entire BLM sentiment as one political movement with any specific organized element, it's equally disingenuous to pretend that there AREN'T multiple political movements that could be considered (and probably consider themselves) to be "BLM movements". I see a lot of both, to be honest, and neither assessment of "what BLM definitively is or isn't" seems accurate.

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.

I agree with all of that though, it's Commons soapboxing so it's never going to be an honest discussion of issues... there will always be a heavy element of party-political propaganda.