Re: CRT.
*Every single* argument I've ever heard against CRT starts with a straw-man argument. (Something like: "They're teaching our kids to hate themselves, and that the nation should be run by the black panther party and Muslims and communists!" So much to unpack right there, eh!? Who is "our" kids, hmmm?)
The rest of the discussion is pointless, unless the person using the straw-man argument is willing to admit they are using (intentionally or not) a fabricated argument.
I suppose there's a person, somewhere, making some cogent argument against the way we teach about racism, but I'm afraid I've never ever heard it.
Kind of the same way that I'm sure there's some cogent argument in some corner case where a Covid vaccine might be less valuable. But again, I've never, EVER, heard anyone make a cogent argument like that. It's always bat-shit insane crazy drool, that's the equivalent of arguing that the tooth fairy exists. (Like: "I don't want my teenager to get the covid vax because I'm worried about carditis." Response: "Ah, have you considered what the risk of carditis is from getting Covid, to name a single risk?" Sounds a lot like; I'm worried about car crashes, so I'm going to leap out of this car at freeway speeds, because I think it will save me from a crash!)
In the whole, it tends to make me, nearly instantly, discount the intellectual honesty of anyone starting to make one of those arguments.
I've just never seen ANYONE make an argument (in those two realms) that isn't, at best, totally misguided and lacking in facts; believing factually crazy stuff - or at worst, being completely intellectually dishonest and intentionally devoid of any common definition of facts (Unwittingly believing BS, or "I'm gonna make shit up", completely knowing it's total bull-shit.).
