“We All Live on Campus Now” when “liberal” journalists write of “Conservative Panic about Critical Race Theory”

The news is routinely treating critique of Critical Race Theory as partisan racist bias, oversimplifying free democratic discussion of doctrines which have major flaws. “Critical race theorists attack the very foundations of the liberal legal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism and neutral principles of constitutional law".” … “There is a difference between criticizing an unfair system and criticizing individuals who perform well inside that system.”(1)

Wikipedia contains substantive criticism of CRT as seen below. In addition, CRT fosters:

1. A society enviously suspicious of achievement, ability, and success, which it denounces as “privilege”
2. Criticism of “privilege” implicitly praises mediocrity
3. In a truly Orwellian phrase, insinuates that accomplished Asian Americans are tainted by “white adjacency”

Wikipedia - Academic criticism:

“Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry argue that critical race theory lacks supporting evidence, relies on an implausible belief that reality is socially constructed, rejects evidence in favor of storytelling, rejects truth and merit as expressions of political dominance, and rejects the rule of law.

Additionally, they posit that the anti-meritocratic tenets in critical race theory, critical feminism, and critical legal studies may unintentionally lead to antisemitic and anti-Asian implications. In particular, they suggest that the success of Jews and Asians within what critical race theorists argue is a structurally unfair system may lend itself to allegations of cheating, advantage-taking, or other such claims. A series of responses to Farber and Sherry was published in the Harvard Law Review. These responses argue that there is a difference between criticizing an unfair system and criticizing individuals who perform well inside that system. In the Boston College Law Review, Jeffrey Pyle argues that critical race theory undermines confidence in the rule of law, saying that "critical race theorists attack the very foundations of the liberal legal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism and neutral principles of constitutional law".”

Criticism by jurists:

“Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals argued in 1997 that critical race theory "turns its back on the Western tradition of rational inquiry, forswearing analysis for narrative", and that "by repudiating reasoned argumentation, [critical race theorists] reinforce stereotypes about the intellectual capacities of nonwhites." Former Judge Alex Kozinski, who served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, criticized critical race theorists in 1997 for raising "insuperable barriers to mutual understanding" and thus eliminating opportunities for "meaningful dialogue".”

Other criticism:

“Political commentators including George Will see resonances between critical race theory's use of storytelling and insistence that race poses challenges to objective judgments in the U.S.” …

“We All Live on Campus Now” by Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine

Conservative fear of CRT in Washington Post

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(1) This doctrine’s jaundiced view of “individuals who perform well inside that system” tends to produce a society enviously suspicious of achievement, ability, and success. Its implied commitment to mediocrity accuses its own mainstream of “white privilege,” and in a truly Orwellian phrase, insinuates that accomplished Asian Americans are tainted by “white adjacency.” “May unintentionally lead to … anti-Asian implications.”