Why Is the Country Panicking About Critical Race Theory?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "The First Amendment will not, true enough, secure us substantive liberties, but neither will its abrogation," he wrote, while also crediting critical race theorists with "helping to reinvigorate the debate about freedom of expression."
49% : This is particularly true of the theory's tense relationship with the contemporary interpretation of the First Amendment:
46% : And the fact that antiracism and anti-discrimination of all kinds would validate rather than undermine the stratification of wealth in American society is completely visible to those who currently possess that wealth -- all the rich people eager to embark on a course of moral purification (antiracist training) but with no interest whatsoever in a politics (social-democratic redistribution) that would alter the material conditions that make them rich."
43% : In The Times Magazine, the Yale historian Timothy Snyder compares them to Russian memory laws: government actions designed to guide public interpretation of past atrocities to protect the powerful.

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