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Part of the joy I've been having is arguing with these conservatives, man.

The last couple of weeks I've had on my show some of these people who are the open enemies of critical race theory,

the people who are out here battling and fighting a theory that they haven't read or that they don't understand.

That's exactly.

I mean, it's all, it's a, it's just an excuse to be against any kind of education that might

produce a consciousness of racial justice and equality in this country.

Any idea that asks people to be self-interrogating about the capacity for them to have contributed

to other people suffering, whoever it may be, but especially if it's black folk.

Yep.

They're going to find a way to weaponize it.

It doesn't matter what letter at alphabet you put CRT, you know, you could put any letters in there.

It's an appalling commitment.

It's really an appalling commitment.

I saw a post.

They quickly deleted it, but it was in the Texas Public Policy Forum where they said, they said 18 ways to know if critical race theory is sneaking into your curriculum.

18 words to look for it.

Oh, yeah.

I saw that.

I saw that. I saw that.

I mean, one of the words was like identity.

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