I’ve found it very strange.  Simply, plainly things like “equity audits” in our public schools are exercises of critical race theory (CRT).  It’s just a straightforward observation, as far as I can see.

Nonetheless, people will object, even people I thought were relatively conservative and relatively clear of thought.  They’ll insist they are not the same, although they won’t explain where one ends and the other begins.

As far as I can tell, their attitude is essentially the same as claiming that a school that’s teaching children to differentiate shapes is not teaching geometry and, further, that teaching geometry is not teaching math.  Mike LaChance points to a Christopher Rufo tweet of a video in which a CRT expert gives the game away.  CRT is the “container” for all the anti-racist stuff:

LEAKED: CRT cofounder Kimberlé Crenshaw tells NEA president Becky Pringle that “critical race theory traditionally is a law school class,” but is “now the huge container for anti-racist work [and] anti-racist education” in K-12 schools—vindicating my reporting over the past year. pic.twitter.com/iessDqPY5v

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) November 23, 2021