SIO299: Debunking CRT Attacks with Dr. Ery Shin
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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You've seen Critical Race Theory discussed everywhere thanks to an entirely ginned up moral panic by Christopher Rufo, but have you gotten to hear someone who actually teaches it talk about what it's really about? If not, I hope you'll listen as Dr. Ery Shin takes us through some basics, and also answers a few anti-CRT talking points from James Lindsay's Christian Nationalist funded New Discourses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only. This is episode 299. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, I'm a big landmark episode coming up next. I'm Thomas and that's Lindsay. |
| 0:21.0 | Hi. |
| 0:22.0 | As always, Dr. Lindsay Osterman joining me. I'm so excited about today's episode. I think we're going to learn a lot. |
| 0:28.0 | Lindsay, do you want to introduce our guest? |
| 0:30.0 | Absolutely. Our guest is Dr. Ari Shin. She's an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, which is my alma mater. |
| 0:39.0 | So this is very special for me. Thank you so much for coming on, Ari. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, welcome. |
| 0:44.0 | I don't know. Thank you so much, Lindsay and Thomas. It's my pleasure to be here. |
| 0:48.0 | That's great. So do you want to tell us a little bit about your background? |
| 0:51.0 | So my home field, I would say, is modernism and avant-garde practices. |
| 0:57.0 | But over the years, I've really gained a lot of interest in gender and sexuality studies, race, and art history. |
| 1:06.0 | So all of these things right now, especially what's going on in America at the moment, or what's always been happening in America, has really kind of focused my interest in a way that I think is not out of line with contemporary politics, |
| 1:19.0 | especially recent debates about what's going on with critical race theory and educational legislation. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | So I was thinking back and realizing in doing an episode of what is critical race theory, I realize it's unintentionally part of a series that is responding to the different moral panics throughout the years. |
| 1:41.0 | What is postmodernism? I know I've done that episode when that was the buzzword that everybody was scared of on the right. |
| 1:47.0 | I don't know if I've done literally what is intersectionality, but I think we've talked about it a lot. |
| 1:52.0 | And there's probably some other moral panic words. |
| 1:54.0 | So I just think that's such an interesting component of this that there's always, it seems like there's an evolution to the next kind of scaremongering buzzword. |
| 2:04.0 | But at the same time, I think critical race theory is a super fascinating thing that I would like to learn more about. |
| 2:10.0 | So I suppose I don't mind a chance to talk about it. |
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