Continuing a Dialogue on Critical Race Theory at BYU

Recently, we published an open letter to CRT advocates on the BYU campus (and elsewhere) in which we hoped to start a constructive dialogue around what has become an increasingly frustrating and contentious issue. As is usually the case, most of the public criticism leveled against our letter assumed bad motives or deployed vague assertions that our conclusions could only be explained by insufficient effort or inquiry on our part (with no evidence ever offered to support such claims). Yet among sincere respondents, an important theme emerged:  the feeling that social conservatives were more invested in fighting antiracism than in addressing racism itself.