Background: Soledad O’Brien managed to look like an utter idiot on CNN on Thursday when Breitbart.com’s Joel Pollak casually eviscerated her over the concept of critical race theory (CRT).
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OK, deeper background: CRT is more or less identity politics run through an academic gobbledygook filter; some of its adherents have made some somewhat… incautious comments about white supremacy and the sham nature of the American civil rights movement.
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TOM MAGUIRE: Scouring the NYT archives on Critical Race Theory: Joel Pollak 6, Soledad O’Brien 0. “I think we can count on the NY Times to present critical race theory in as gauzy and flattering a focus as possible, so let’s see how... Read Post
So the Breitbart editor in chief appeared on CNN yesterday to discuss the new Obama video. Results: hilarious. First, you have Soledad O’Brien lecturing Joel Pollak on what critical race theory is: O’Brien, with someone talking in h... Read Post
Last week, CNN's Soledad O'Brien got into a heated debate with Breitbart.com's Joel Pollak over his story tying then-law student Barack Obama to radical professor Derrick Bell. O'Brien insisted that neither Bell nor his critical rac... Read Post