I’m still not an expert on CRT, but at the moment my main concern with it is that it’s a process of forming motivated narratives, and this is the same process people produce unhealthy distorted views of the world.

That’s not to say everything this produces is useless, and it’s not to say it cant drive change.

If the original suffragettes had distorted unhealthy views of men, I’d still support women’s right to vote (to pick an easy example).

But it’s always baffling when you’re criticizing or nitpicking a theory and you get responses like:

-well everyone is biased, so why do you care if we are

-if you get into the nitty gritty of epistemology, truth is hard to define

-all accounts of history as biased

Or the most agonizing one:

-if we’re driving the right change, why do you care if what we say is wrong?

I can’t produce perfect objectivity. I can’t solve the ultimate epistemological questions.

But I’ll never get to a point where I openly champion not caring about factual or bias concerns.

In sum: If the way you reject criticism would also reject fair criticisms of incels and “white replacement” theorists, then I won’t accept it.