[greenail]

"DEI existing at all as a thing is based on a mainstream understanding of reality developed through critical race theory."

This strikes me as a very postmodern and intersectionalist view. My reply pointing out the ideological progression as:

marxism -> neo marxism -> postmodernism -> critical theory -> critical race theory -> anti-racism

was downvoted. Your post seems to validate it though.

[dragonwriter]

> This strikes me as a very postmodern and intersectionalist view.

There's nothing “postmodern or intersectionalist” about noting the historical factual sequence:

critical race theory (1970s+) -> detailed analysis of post-civil-rights structural/institutional barriers to racial progress -> modern DEI

[greenail]

The idea that you can understand reality through CRT was what struck me postmodern/intersectionalist not the historical sequence. "lived experience" as truth and all that.

[dragonwriter]

CRT, like critical theory more generally, has both modernist and postmodernist branches (contrary to the Right’s typical propaganda, which tends, confusingly, to associate it vert tightly with postmodernism despite also associating it very tightly with Marxism, which is extremely modernist.)

I suppose your comment would make some distant sense if only the postmodernist branch of CRT existed.