No, not betrayal, disempowerment. Nobody's life is changed from one minute to the next because they read about CRT. The impact of racism in their lives doesn't increase or decrease based on some academic theory from the 70s.

But what *does* happen, is that some people read those ideas and believe that their life is going to be irrevocably shaped by racism. They lose sight of the fact that they never endured slavery or Jim Crow or segregation. They lose sight of the fact that they live in nice neighboourhoods and go to good schools and have the ability to make something of themselves thanks to the sacrifice of those who fought for our civil rights.

Instead, they take on the victimhood of people who they've never met, and in many cases aren't even related to, and claim it as their own. So you have, just for example, Marion Gray, a drama student at Julliard, (a $50,000 a year school), complaining about her oppression because the school implemented a tone-deaf diversity program at her majority black drama course.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juilliard-school-race-diversity-concerns/

She was literally in tears because she, a drama student, was invited, along with her class (she wasn't singled out and they weren't forced to take part), to role-play as a slave.

Now, was this an incredibly stupid, tone-deaf thing for the college to ask the students to do? Absolutely. But bear in mind. It happened precisley because the students demanded it. It was run by a black man. It's another perfect example of the stupidity that all of this performative anti-racism stuff brings about. But *she wasn't a slave*. To pretend that it's reasonable for her to be literally crying about "her blackness" is demeaning and infantilising.