(am from EU)
(am from EU)
This is off topic, but I'll bite anyway. Like all broad ideas, there is no one canonical definition of Critical Race Theory that everyone agrees with.
Some serious takes on Critical Race Theory have ideas that explain why science is not always correct.
Some professors who support CRT explain that Storytelling is superior in certain ways, and in certain situations to scientific gathering information.
In other spots, professors claim that since science, reason and mathematics are white Western ideas, they are part of the oppressive system.
I don't really understand those two ideas very well, so I probably misstated them in some form. But if you dive into the details you'll find those ideas or similar ideas.
If you're coming from a mindset where science is the ultimate source of truth, you will be surprised to find that Critical Race Theory says that there are other routes which are better.
I would not say CRT is pseudoscience. I would place it alongside other philosophical theories which support or deny the ideas which form the basis of science.
What actually got banned is "boogeyman CRT", which is a caricature of the field propagated among the partisan press for use as an "enemy".
And of course it's bad. You don't ban ideas with which you disagree, even (especially) if you think they're factually wrong.
You are being intentionally dramatic and misleading.
If you're a federal contractor and you tell your employees "I think racism is real", it seems like you'd fall afoul of this language and lose your contract.
The federal government will not fund research into the idea that women are sub human, and will certainly fire any manager who tries to include female inferiority training as a requirement for their employees.
Banning this sexist idea is a good thing. The idea itself is poison and has no place in common government.
If some people think it is merely controversial, then they should build credibility outside of government then ask for the rules to be relaxed.