Recently I& #39;ve seen people in various ministry circles drawing on @NeilShenvi& #39;s work to critique Christians exploring racial injustice because it is supposedly critical race theory.

I recorded 2 lectures to address major problems in his work, plus train you to find them also.

Lecture 1 is titled "Five Yellow Flags," and shows five common mistakes that are found throughout Shenvi& #39;s corpus, focusing on a case study of his recent bizarre claim that the common definition of systemic racism is dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO2qzwbbEb0&t=1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Lecture 2 is titled "Worldviews and Tools" and gets to the heart of the matter. Shenvi claims that aspects of CRT are helpful tools, but CRT is a dangerous worldview. Yet, he doesn& #39;t come close to showing that those he critiques have adopted the worldview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WjqayI5rkY&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch...

A few weaknesses in lecture 2: I lost my place at the beginning. Worse, I speak of a "race problem" rather than "racism," embodying the sort of psychological tendency to skirt the issues that Tisby (whom Shenvi criticizes) is addressing. So, I kept the mistake in.

I& #39;ve told @NeilShenvi that if he posts a response (not on social media) I& #39;m willing to add it to the bottom of this thread.

Feel free to share the video with those who may be helped by it. I& #39;m not interested in or able to engage in extensive twitter debate on the lectures.

Neil has replied with modifications to his article, moving further from weak evidence (flag #1) and thereby showing that definitional shift (flag #2) doesn& #39;t apply to Kendi, but does to the CSI which he now cites. https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi/status/1278358441422192641">https://twitter.com/NeilShenv...