I'm curious, was it academia? I mean, is there an origin story? I don't even know what terms search.

Probably. The historical origins are beyond me, but anecdotally I thought the 1994 movie PCU must've dealt a mortal blow to the political correctness movement because I stopped hearing about it and no one around me treated it as a real thing. In hindsight, the resurgence of mom jeans in the last decade should have planted seeds of worry in many a gen-xer.

thanks! I've read that and this part sticks out:

""they assume racism is present in everything and look for it “Critically” until they find it.""

that doesn't seem like the scientific method to me. am I the dumb?

edit: also the founder of the linked site is critical of Critical Race Theory - so maybe there is bias in this article. Whatever, I asked for a place to start - so, thanks again.

CRT is essay based, not science based. Think Foucault, not Pavlov.

Every thinking person I know is critical of CRT. It doesn’t follow any scientific method, rewrites history and tells many lies to advance an agenda.

It’s basically all target painting.

Edit:I’m getting pretty heavy downvoting without any responses... anyone interested in actually explaining why they disagree?

Here’s a far less biased overview: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

yeah but if we take a summary with a bias its easier to validate our opinions.