Leadership Quote by Marjorie Taylor Greene

“Critical race theory is racist” is engineered to flip the moral charge before the argument even starts. Greene takes a framework that examines how racism can be baked into institutions and rebrands it as the very thing it critiques. The move is rhetorically efficient: if CRT is “racist,” then opposing it becomes not just reasonable but righteous. No definitions required, no evidence necessary. The vagueness is the point, because “CRT” in contemporary politics rarely refers to a specific legal-academic tradition; it functions as a catchall for diversity training, school lessons about slavery, corporate DEI, even the discomfort of hearing the word “privilege.”

The second sentence - “It does nothing to bring us together” - supplies the emotional alibi. Unity becomes the standard, and any analysis that foregrounds conflict or historical harm is cast as sabotage. Subtext: harmony is preferable to truth, and the price of “togetherness” is silence about unequal power. It’s a familiar strategy in culture-war messaging: frame critique as divisiveness, then claim the center as the calm, reasonable position.

Context matters. Greene’s brand thrives on combative populism and media amplification; a blunt, binary construction (“X is racist”) travels better than nuanced debate. The quote isn’t trying to persuade skeptics so much as to consolidate an audience: parents anxious about schools, voters tired of elite language, conservatives primed to see anti-racism as anti-white. Calling CRT “racist” doesn’t just reject a theory; it asserts who deserves protection and who is being accused - and it invites listeners to feel accused even when they aren’t.