Off the back of The Problem of Race podcast posted above, this is another good one, in which Coleman Hughes reads his review of Kendi's book "How to be an Anti-Racist". He makes various points which are useful in thinking about CRT and systemic racism.
It also put me in mind of various points made on this thread and the one on Coddling, regarding the seeming impossibility of constructive discussion in the current 'intellectual' climate of sidelining/ignoring data/facts/empiricism/objectivity, in favour of unfalsifiable emotional sweeping statements:
"By pivoting from standards of discourse that are universally and independently accountable to our senses and reason, to standards of discourse in which the conclusions that are rendered are not open to challenge or confrontation from the outside, Woke Folk aim to introduce ideas that are effectively immune from criticism. Under a paradigm that values reason and evidence, an interlocutor is welcomed to challenge ideas in a fashion that allows anyone from any walk of life to evaluate concepts. But under a paradigm in which “Lived Experiences,” which are the subjective interpretations of events from one’s demographically-dependent base of “knowledge,” are held as immutable and not open to discussion or debate, all interlocutors are obligated to listen and believe".
The 'standards of discourse' James Lindsay mentions here are unbelievably low in Kendi's book, according to Coleman's analysis.