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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
So Critical Race Theory, as you know, has its origins in the critical legal studies movement, which also came from Harvard Law School, from a number of critical legal studies professors--'crits' as they were known when we were in law school--who are explicitly Marxist.
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz links Critical Race Theory to Marxism and its academic origins.

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