First, critical race theory is just another face of what has been Democrat party doctrine since its founding. That is, that is that the Declaration of Independence was a fraud and that the USA was founded to foster enslavement of others.
Second, the policies described here rightly acknowledge that one cannot compel people to be free, but they don’t go far enough. A competition of ideas is not an end in itself, it is a means for discerning the truth. Therefore, on can reject and prudently restrict ideas that reject liberty.