The Warning in that thread is not for discussing CRT, but for “rehashing an old and tired pet issue in a thread not for it.” @What_Exit specifically says that ZS needs to “change [his] behavior in CRT threads going forward.” So he’s saying “don’t discuss CRT.”
I agree that the mod post could have been more clear about what exactly was the problematic “old and tired issue” that was “in a place not for it.” But, if you read the post that caused the Warning, I think it’s fairly obvious, especially if you’ve read a lot of ZS’s posts.
He goes on at length about “racial quotas,” a topic that has little to nothing to do with CRT, with no attempt to even try and argue how the framework he was talking about earlier would correlate with it. If you know he has a habit of bringing that up in tangentially related threads even before CRT became a buzzword, then it makes more sense why he’d be told to stop.
He also loves to talk about the idea of “constant segregation at gatherings.” Sure, there is the argument about safe spaces and such, but there’s no reality to the claim that this sort of thing is constant. Classes that discuss CRT are not separated by race.
And finally, he argues that everyone else knows these are actually what CRT actually means, saying that the other arguments are “disingenuously defended in fantasy land.”
The latter is what he returns to in the Virginia thread, just worse. The post that gets him modded has him accusing everyone of knowing that CRT is what he claims it is, and that he doesn’t have to back up any of his claims about that topic.
Rather than debate in good faith about CRT, he chooses to redefine it in a way that is contrary to how most of us understand it, and then accuse us all of being disingenuous when we disagree, even though, when asked, he can’t back up the claim that this is what CRT is, or that the issues are related.
Yes, I would prefer if @What_Exit would spell out exactly what is that people do wrong. I did so with a mod note and later a Warning he gave me, and I never got an answer on either one. He seems to act like what he’s saying is obvious, when it isn’t.
But I do think he usually has a good instinct for the actual problems are. He’s just not the greatest at articulating them.