So 90% of all criminal cases are not plea bargained? A disproportionate number of wrongly convicted defendants are not black? The law hasn't historically disfavored black people in favor of white people? Even if the KGB pushed this to destabilize the west, or the US, sometimes the most persuasive and damaging information is the truth. While CLT's conclusions may be seen to lack reasonable analysis, tending to have been reverse engineered to support their premises and suffering from the exclusion of contradictory data, there is certainly some truth to the fact that belief in the integrity and fundamental impartiality of the legal system has often been misplaced and that political or ideological factors have too often produced injustice.
By the way, the term 'white privilege' which causes so many to bristle with resentment, was not invented by CLT (CLS) or CRT, but first coined in 1942 by Ramananda Chatterjee in Modern Review magazine, where he commented on Winston Churchill's policy positions in India:
"Mr. Churchill can support white privilege and monopoly in India whilst opposing privilege and monopoly on both sides of the Atlantic." Then it appeared again in 1943, in sociologist Alfred McClung Lee's 'Race Riot, Detroit 1943' which addressed the
"Nazi-like guarantee of white privilege" in American society. CRT also borrows from W.E.B. Du Bois' work in his 1935 'Black Reconstruction in America' and the writings of various academics, who have since the 19th century, been addressing 'white superiority', 'white hegemony' and 'white skin privilege' in reference to European colonialism. These authors were not prompted by the KGB to address the topic, since the KGB was only formed in 1954. In fact, CRT is the organization of ideas from past works on the topic, including CLT (CLS) and its antecedent,
legal realism.
The current furor over CRT, which has been largely ignored since it was given a name in 1989, has less to do with the theory, as the nature of the 'remedial educational programs' that have been developed to supposedly address and correct the historical injustice in a reaction to far more recent political activism, which includes the flawed 1619 Project.