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Republican politicians started strategically calling all accurate historical information about racial inequality "critical race theory" and a lot of media outlets are just uncritically running with the phrase now
Even the Guardian is doing it:
"Critical race theory" is a real thing, of course, but the political strategy here is concept stretching and, well, it appears to be working.
To clarify this last point a bit: I'm an academic who studies racism in American political history, but I don't think people doing critical race theory work would see me as a critical race theorist. But a lot of these laws would ban even extremely obviously discussions of racism.
