DeSantis would easily beat Trump in a debate
DeSantis actually would have zingers too:
1. On Your watch CRT started being taught in schools while I banned it under my watch here in Florida
2. Under your watch wokeness exploded while under my watch we have pushed back against it
3. I have actually taken on powerful special interests
4. All you did when you faced tough opposition was whine, while we beat them.
Has CRT ever actually been taught anywhere besides a few law schools?
No c'mons needed. It was an honest question; literally the only time I've ever heard of it being taught was at the grad school level.
That's under a 'no true CRT' perspective. The general ideas and concepts of CRT are taught at almost any serious university and are pretty common in good high schools. It's not rocket science; it's pretty simple to understand.
Frankly, anyone who's graduating from college or even high school should be aware of the concept of systemic racism. Maybe not before high school, but once they've attained a certain level of maturity.
If you're defining CRT as simply "systemic racism exists," then OK, but the actual academic definition is much more specific and detailed than that.
No one means CRT as the precise curriculum of the law school class that originated the term. The colloquial meaning has drifted far from that, so saying "actually that's not CRT shut up Glenn Youngkin" doesn't change the fact that ideas about race similar to CRT are increasingly being taught in schools. In my Democratic, affluent NJ school district, I was taught about something similar in high school, as was also the case in both undergrad and grad school. All while not being a humanities student. At no point was it explicitly labelled CRT, but when this debate started a year ago I was already thoroughly exposed to the main ideas of actual CRT.
I think it's a useful framework to understand race and I'm fine with students being exposed to it in high school and college. My point is that these ideas are actually being taught in schools and one does not need to go out of their way to be exposed to them. Most students in Democratic areas will probably encounter them in high school English. If not, they'll see them in undergrad gen ed classes.
