So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory?

[plimsoll]

37. It wasn't actually posed as a proof, but on it's surface it would be open to those claims.

On the other hand, there are reasons to argue that the efforts to suppress what the right is calling “critical race theory” are evidence that they believe “critical race theory” has both merit and is dangerous to their positions.

This will probably be Tl NR.

First they’re not actually objecting to Critical Race Theory, which as others pointed out is a relatively obscure and on it’s own somewhat contentious legal theory. Why the right would want to conflate this legal theory with the teaching about the impacts of institutional and systemic is another interesting question that someone else should look at. Regardless, they seem to be terrified of acknowledging that institutional and systemic racism are historic facts and lingering ills in our society.

The suppression of evidence and education about systemic racism may have other motivations, but the simplest explanation is that not allowing it to be discussed assists in obscuring its existence. In essence the systemic racism becomes an intrinsic part of the system. By preventing the investigation of system racism you are both systematizing and institutionalizing it.