It seems he is. I see a much bigger push to prevent any type of critical discussion about issues of slavery etc.

I'm also always surprised how little US citizens know about their own history. Ask somebody about "Birth of a Nation" and see what they can tell you about it.

Ask them if they know about the "Pro American Rally" in 1939 and see what they say.

These things are not taught in school and it's a shame. I know what I'm talking about I'm German and I hated our history education in school as we were discussing the 3rd Reich nearly every year. Yet, reflecting on it and seeing that the same stupid ideas get a hold today again, it was not nearly enough. We should have taught more. The same holds for the German colonial history (that was not covered and is changing slowly).

If you don't know your past, you are condemned to repeat it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-lat...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/12/right-wing...

Critical race theory is a mythic story - the sort Yural Harari describes as a religion. It sits alongside replacement theory, humanism, environmentalism, crypto anarchism, liberalism, rand’s objectivism, and so on.

These stories are lenses through which you can describe the world. They’re like software for the mind. And like software, they aren’t objectively right or objectively wrong. Each of these stories (dubiously) explain and obsesses over some aspects of the world, and ignores other aspects completely.

> Critical race theory is a mythic story -

No, its not.

Though there is a mythic anti-”Critical Race Theory” story created by the American Right, and the thing within it called “Critical Race Theory” is a (particularly incoherent, because a number of unrelated and opposing things from the real world that share only that they concern race, and they are disliked by the American Right, and they are not actually Critical Race Theory, are jammed into it) mythic story.

> These stories are lenses through which you can describe the world. They’re like software for the mind. And like software, they aren’t objectively right or objectively wrong.

Actual critical race theory (like critical legal studies, from which it stems) holds the existence of objective features of social structures, with tangible, material, effects.

Like many hypothesized social phenomenon, the complexity of the systems involved may make falsification difficult on a practical level, but the claims it makes are fact claims which are objectively true or false.