Commentary Over the past few weeks, legislatures, school boards, and parents have risen to challenge critical race theory (CRT) as a divisive ideology teaching our children to become racists. Their objections have brought this once-obscure academic theory to the front pages. They’ve also raised some burning questions: What is CRT? What makes it so objectionable? How can this central pillar of “antiracist” training be racist? The answer begins—as do so many these days—with the progressive penchant for deconstruction, or redefining words. “Antiracist” training is racist because progressives have redefined “racism.” CRT scholars have been clear and consistent. The “antiracism” they’re preaching is not the “antiracism” of Martin Luther King Jr. Nor is it opposition to the discriminatory treatment most Americans oppose when speaking against racism. CRT contends that the “systems” defining modern American life are irredeemably racist. It calls for a revolutionary upheaval, laying waste to every existing governmental, legal, …