How is Critical Race Theory specifically anti American ?

[Pulaski]

Plenty of people view their country and its history as a reflection or extension of themselves. To take a critical view of a country, its government or its history is, to those people, to do the same to them.

Sometimes these people just can't blind themselves to the worst of the evils that occurred in their country's history - slavery and colonisation for the US, colonisation and the Stolen Generations (and some slavery) in Australia. Often as a defensive mechanism these people will insulate themselves in their current timeline and the idea that everything is a level playing field now - as if momentous events of history never leave legacies for the future. So "white privilege" (a much misused and misunderstood term) is nonsense because in some way the problems were all "fixed" by the 70s or 80s and the attitudes and actions of people still living now couldn't have left some lingering effects in society that are worth learning about.

I don't hold your average German responsible in any way for the Holocaust, and I don't want them to flagellate themselves as a nation for it. That'd be ridiculous. But I want German people to learn about the Holocaust, its context, its causes, the attitudes and actions involved, how all those events have shaped German society and Germans' lives today. And to be aware that German Jews and their families might have very different experiences to theirs, and be determined to continue to work for a Germany where it's safe to be Jewish or any other minority.

And, to return to the idea of country as an extension of self, that work is never complete, just how one never completely masters a skill or becomes a perfect version of themselves. There is always more work to do.