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Originally Posted by
Walter Sobchak
Once upon a time, "the races are equal" was radical left wing opinion.
Here’s a detailed primer on critical race theory (CRT) from the American Bar Association.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/c...l-race-theory/
While I can’t speak to whether a
proper application of critical race theory is responsible for that private school’s policies, I can say that the legal scholar who coined the term was grammatically playing fast-and-loose with how he describe it as stated here from that ABA article:
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Crenshaw—who coined the term “CRT”—notes that CRT is not a noun, but a verb [emphasis added]. It cannot be confined to a static and narrow definition but is considered to be an evolving and malleable practice.
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Why? Because “critical race THEORY” is clearly a noun phrase. Regardless of whether static or evolving, “theory” is a noun, NOT a verb! One does NOT say “Schools should not critical race theory!” They say “Schools should USE/TEACH critical race theory”. In contrast, “theorize” is a verb. And accordingly, the corresponding verb phrase, and hyphenated, mind you, would be “to critical-race-theorize”.
Of course, I could be relying upon my obvious white privilege here to try to impose a racism-perpetuating rule set rooted in the millenium-plus Anglo-Saxon origins of the English language in critiquing that legal scholar’s characterization of the grammatical nature of the phrase “critical race theory”. Could someone who isn’t white help me put here?