The anti-CRT panic uses fabricated threats to block any teaching that challenges white supremacy.
Evidence
Deconstructing for discursive strategies and reading them back in shows how the anti-CRT panic becomes more about stirring anger in people based on made up facts and fabricated threats. The purpose in schools, for instance, is to prevent the teaching of history of social studies in any manner that challenges white supremacy because, according to the purveyors of the panic, there is no white supremacy to challenge. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 443
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels Aziz’s account of the Racial Muslim as a manufactured legal threat category; both argue the panic produces the racial category it claims to describe. — connects to: Anti-sharia panics and anti-CRT panics both serve to maintain racial hierarchy. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 423; Racial panic actively manufactures enemies the state can mobilize against — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 311; Anti-essentialist CRT theory naturally enabled examining Islamophobia as racism — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 18 (+3 more)
- SEED: Angle: ‘The panic precedes the teaching’ — how moral panics fabricate the curriculum they claim to be stopping.
Broader Connections
- Racial panic actively manufactures enemies the state can mobilize against
#expands(1.00) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 311 - Rufo deliberately fabricated an equivalence between prison-gang segregation and CRT pedagogy
#corroborates(1.00) - A conservative strategist fabricated CRT’s Marxist lineage to rally right-wing allies
#corroborates(1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 421 - Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets
#corroborates(1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445 - Anti-essentialist CRT theory naturally enabled examining Islamophobia as racism
#complicates(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 18