about as useful and accurate a statement as basketball play-by-play announcing goes beyond energetically describing a game of basketball. you're confusing a thing for a list of people and things they've said as if phrases like "flying chickens in the barnyard" and "good golly, miss molly" are intrinsic to basketball play-by-play announcing rather than exclamatory phrases used by one Kevin Calabro.
If we're using the basketball analogy, a better one would be if I said "basketball is about people passing a ball to each other on a court," while leaving out stuff like the hoop, and the size of the teams.
For instance, Trunkage said that CRT might look at a law and see how it impacts different groups in different ways, even if the law itself is neutral. That's part of CRT, but not the be-all and end-all. It's leaving out stuff like the following tenents:
-Critique of liberalism/the idea of individual rights, instead forwarding a race-conciousness view of society.
-Emphasis on "lived experience," and the use of storytelling as a means of evidence (in opposition to what we might call anecdotal evidence; this is why you get phrases such as "my truth" or "your truth")
-Use of intersectionality and standpoint theory
-Racism is foundational to how Western society operates (though I've seen some CRT scholars posit that the framework could be applied to pretty much every society)
-Calling out instances of racism, no matter how small (microaggressions), is a key strategy in exposing and defeating it
-Anti-racialism — the myth of colourblindness, which denies the legitimacy of lived experience of racism — is the enemy of anti-racism
-Incremental change is doomed to fail because advances for minorities are only granted when they are in the interests of the dominant group, and are withdrawn when they are not.
This is stuff from CRT scholars themselves given in interviews. Even if you want to make the argument that CRT is misapplied in the classroom (including, but not limited to, segregated parent-teacher interviews and the urging of students to form "racial affinity groups,"), these are some of the core pillars.
