Has anyone discussed critical race theory? No? OK, I’ll chime in

While I have been vocal of wokeness (which I would define as the overapplication of critical race theory as a weapon), the early 2000s version of Orrin Konheim was an enthusiast of critical race theory.

I went to the University of Mary Washington for two years and everything from English 101 to Urban Geography to Film Studies had elements of CRT in them. One of the big four civil rights figures (Congress of Racial Equality co-founder), James Farmer, had a teaching post at Mary Washington when he died and the James Farmer Multicultural Institute bought over several speakers and so I heard Julian Bond and Roger Wilkins. I gobbled all of these lessons up and enjoyed talking about generational wealth and redlining to my peers.

But times have changed. Somewhere around 2015, pop culture writers and twitter activists felt that the easiest way to see the world and ways to fix it through the narrow dichotomy of racist or not racist. What’s more they thrive off oversimplification and have built a cottage industry around exploiting racial grievance.

Despite all that, I can more reasonably make conclusions on where I feel CRT is used tenuously after having studied it in the first place. I also have the credibility to argue against its overuse having known where the bounds are.

The idea of outlawing it for cheap political points with an ignorant base as the Republican party is doing in Texas and Florida can be just as bad. The problem is…