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"He looked around a room full of staff (and the regrettably small number of faculty who bothered to attend) and reassured us that no one is really teaching critical race theory anyway, so the whole effort to ban it in colleges won’t really change what we do. "

I see multiple problems with this. Just the first couple....

1. As you noted, some professors do teach the concepts as part of their disciplines.

2. Cowardly administrators allow outsiders with agendas to define what does and does not count as "CRT." I may not have my students read am article on CRT, but if I assign an eye-witness account of Tulsa in 1921, then BOOM, some RW bigot will scream CRT! and that lesson is gone. Stuffed down the memory hole.

Administrators are using a narrow definition of an idea to reassure faculty that they won't be attacked by those using a wide definition of the same idea. It doesn't work.

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