Wokeness comes at you fast.
Last week: Antiracism that includes asking people of color about racism is exploitation, racist, wrong.
This week: Antiracism that doesn't include that is colonized and has a whiteness problem, racist wrong.

You're not supposed to be able to succeed.

This isn't a mistake, and it's not changing the Theory. Both of these views are 100% compatible with Theory and enable it to apply each one according to the situation so their victims are always wrong.

The idea that asking people of color to explain racism is called "epistemic exploitation" and was outlined by Nora Berenstain in 2016 for the first time, though the idea is obviously a bit older.

The idea that anything that doesn't take on the input of people of color, including in real time, is one of the fundamental claims of the "colonized curriculum" movement and of the belief that whiteness never really challenges itself and makes everything suit its own interests.

This stuff -- these literally contradictory demands that are used to bully people into always being racist and wrong -- are both direct statements of Critical Race Theory and the related set of ideas that derive from it (eg, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Race Epistemology)

This is why I keep saying that Critical Race Theory is fraudulent and the people pushing it are frauds (though some of them are just useful idiots who have already been defrauded by it themselves and now believe in pushing it sincerely).

Critical Race Theory pretends to offer a resolution to this contradiction, but it, too, is a feint. It's what you'd hear in your "anti-racist" training if you tried to raise this contradiction to the facilitator. It's "the literature is already out there; educate yourself."

That's a trick too. Why? Because either a person of color who experiences racism helps you understand it (exploitation) or doesn't, in which case your whiteness and internalized dominance (or internalized racism) prevents you from being able to understand it fully and correctly.

There is literally nothing you can do. Literally nothing. Except keep doing whatever your new masters tell you to do, faster, higher, sooner, and with more guilt, shame, and will to "do better" (and probably to pay them for their emotional labor, etc.).

It's. A. Racket.