Alana Lentin and I published an Opinion piece in The Guardian about the Australian right’s agenda to join the war on critical race theory.
As with the moral panics of the 1990s, which conjured up the strawman of “political correctness gone mad” and, in Australia, the Black Armband view of history, today’s folk devil – critical race theory – is touted as irrational and dangerous. The core of the right’s misrepresentation of CRT is that it preaches “hatred of white people” to impressionable young people in schools. CRT, it is claimed, contributes to further dividing an already incohesive society, splintered by too many years of misguided multicultural policies which were foisted upon well-meaning publics by minorities determined to live segregated lives. As one of the founders of CRT, Professor Cheryl Harris put it, the aim to discredit and ban CRT, “is a ploy intended to gin up the idea that anti-racist work is itself racist – against whites.”
Following this publication Alana Lentin provided a few more remarks on Critical Race Theory on her site ALANALENTIN.NET
Read here: We need more, not less, critical thinking about race in Australia – Alana lentin.net
See also: The War on Critical Race Theory by David Theo Goldberg in the Boston Review: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-war-on-critical-race-theory/