Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism
The Good Fight
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Critical Race Theorists Defend It to the Tenth Degree
i disagree with some critical race theorists who, in my view, are all too inattentive to the importance of protections for civil liberties. And i defend critical race theory. Defend it to the tenth degree. Why? Because i believe in freedom of thinking. I believe inFreedom of teaching and Freedom of listening. But we need to defend intellectual pluralism. Some people in critical race theory have not been as attentive to the important defence of intellectual pluralism as they ought to have been.
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