The reflexive defense that CRT does not exist is just a mirror image of the Alinsky tactic that has gained progs so much purchase over the year. On _offense,_ one crystallizes some concept (say, "'racism"), burns targets accused of exhibiting it, and creates a self-sustaining institutional bureaucracy around it. On _defense,_ you call anyone who calls out what you are doing as being paranoid, tilting at shadows, caught in illusions and, frankly, probably psychiatrically disturbed, etc.
The reflexive defense that CRT does not exist is just a mirror image of the Alinsky tactic that has gained progs so much purchase over the year. On _offense,_ one crystallizes some concept (say, "'racism"), burns targets accused of exhibiting it, and creates a self-sustaining institutional bureaucracy around it. On _defense,_ you call anyone who calls out what you are doing as being paranoid, tilting at shadows, caught in illusions and, frankly, probably psychiatrically disturbed, etc.
"The power to name is the power to destroy."