Critical Race Theory

also referred to as: crt

6 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2022 by Thomas Chatterton Williams · across every show →

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Mar 3, 2022 negative

Opinion

Williams: Far-left focus on CRT and equity exacerbates racial problems

“I think it exacerbates the problem. It's, It says it wants to counteract.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams Mar 3, 2022 ▶ 29:34 Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale

Mar 3, 2022 negative

Insight

Williams: Banning ideas is counterproductive to building an open society

“Banning is not the way to achieve the society that we want to achieve.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams Mar 3, 2022 ▶ 21:10 Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale

Mar 3, 2022 positive

Insight

Williams: Building New Cultural Institutions Is Less Expensive Than Philanthropists Think

“If you genuinely care about things like the debates we're having around CRT, or how do we make a multi-ethnic society work, or how do we improve you know, outcomes for kids, I think investing in new institutions Which probably actually is a lot less expensive …”

Thomas Chatterton Williams Mar 3, 2022 ▶ 35:03 Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale

Mar 3, 2022 negative

Insight

Williams: Banning CRT cannot stop teachers using it as a methodology

“Also when you ban, you don't actually get, the true believers don't stop. Because they're not actually teaching specific CRT texts. It's a methodology. It's a way of seeing the world. It's a way of teaching.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams Mar 3, 2022 ▶ 23:03 Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale

Oct 18, 2024 neutral

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Greenblatt: ADL has never taught or promoted Critical Race Theory

“We never pushed CRT. We don't teach CRT. We don't have a we don't do CRT.”

Jonathan Greenblatt Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 22:29 Jonathan Greenblatt on Ta-Nehisi Coates, CRT, and woke politics · Joe Lonsdale

May 29, 2026 negative

Assertion Partly supported

Hughes: Critical Race Theory Emerged to Reject the Civil Rights Movement

“Critical race theory emerges in the 19 seventies as an explicit rejection of The civil rights movement.”

Coleman Hughes May 29, 2026 ▶ 9:06 How the Left Weaponized Slavery · Joe Lonsdale

Critical Race Theory

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