Sorry, can’t get past the first two sentences of the Yancy article. It begins, “To attack critical race theory is to attack Black knowledge production and attempt to silence its epistemological disruptive reverberations, which challenge the U.S.’s atrocious anti-Black racism. The attacks waged against everything deemed “critical race theory” constitute a new form of McCarthyism, deeming all ideas legitimately critical of realities in the U.S. as “un-American.”” Both sentences are false. Attacking critical race theory isn’t attacking Black knowledge production in any meaningful sense. (It attacks it in the non-meaningful because utterly benign sense that critical race theory was produced by Black people–but there’s obviously nothing wrong, per se, with attacking something that was produced by a Black person!) And many of the people attacking critical race theory also think they have legitimate criticisms of the reality of abortion in the U.S., and don’t think that such criticism is un-American. I’m not saying there aren’t good points later in the article, maybe there are, but I feel like when someone is saying false things in public someone should speak up. Please do let me know if I’m the one who’s saying false things though.