Baked into

 “White supremacism is baked into the foundations of some academic fields."  (Ruth and Bérubé). That means that teachers and researchers doing those fields become supremacist just by doing their regular jobs in a more or less unexceptional way, from day to day. It would be hard to see how we could defend their academic freedom, then, even if their disciplines are run in a professional way. 

So the argument shifts from singling out a few egregious people, like Amy Wax, to de-legitimizing entire disciplines. The books shifts into the idea that Critical Race Theory should be the foundation of academic freedom itself. But surely this theory should itself be open to free debate?  If the theory is foundationally  "baked into" our conception of academic freedom, then it becomes simply undebatable. 

Once again, CRT can be looked at in two ways. It can be said, oh, it is simply an acknowledgment of racism in American history. Or it can be a more specific body of work with very specific ideas. The first is undebatable: there is racism.  The second is debatable, and surely would include internal debates as well as questions from outside this theoretical framework.  

All fields of academic inquiry have debates within them.  We don't know in advance what the answers are going to be. Surely there should also be debates within CRT as well.  We should find people in this field disagreeing with one another, as we all do in our academic fields.