{"id":1893,"date":"2020-12-11T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=138131"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:05:14","slug":"kimberle-crenshaw-on-the-equity-gag-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/11\/kimberle-crenshaw-on-the-equity-gag-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberle Crenshaw on the Equity Gag Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week on CounterSpin<\/strong>: \u201cThis is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish!\u201d Donald Trump\u2019s disturbing September 5 tweet<\/a> paired with his claim<\/a> that \u201cteaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the sickness, the doctrine that Trump says is \u201cbeing deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors and families\u201d? It\u2019s Critical Race Theory, or really any of a whole group of interrelated social justice ideas, like structural racism, implicit bias or privilege\u2014tools for talking about and addressing persistent inequities in US society.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s September executive order<\/a> on \u201ccombating race and sex stereotyping\u201d banned any training addressing racial or gender diversity for federal employees, government contractors and the US military. The effects were immediate and chilling<\/a>\u2014not just the end of workplace diversity trainings, but academics forced to cancel lectures, research projects suspended, curricula scrubbed for fear of running afoul of what\u2019s being called the Equity Gag Order. And yet this obviously suppressive effort has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm. Oh, McCarthyism\u2014how can we miss you if you won\u2019t go away?<\/p>\n

Resisting the effort to silence necessary conversations about racism is Kimberle Crenshaw. A pioneer in critical race theory, she\u2019s a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law Schools, and executive director of the African American Policy Forum<\/a> and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies<\/a>. We talk with her about Trump\u2019s order and the Truth Be Told<\/a> campaign that\u2019s pushing back on it, and the ideas behind it.<\/p>\n

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s cabinet picks.<\/p>\n

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