Recent efforts to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in U.S. public schools have been criticized for fundamentally misunderstanding both CRT and K-12 teaching and teacher education. This paper argues that Anti-CRT fear-mongering in the U.S. is a new face on an old practice, the racist use of public education to sustain White supremacy. Using the method of critical discourse analysis, it examines the current anti-CRT fulmination in terms of its continuity with the history of US White supremacy in education, looking in particular at the ideological strategies employed to silence oppositional voices. It first identifies the players--both people and money--behind the public face of the CRT ban movement, linking them to the initial reaction to "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1955. It then dissects the visible tactics and hidden strategies in anti-CRT efforts to describe a three-step process of disaster capitalism in education. It ends with thoughts on how unmasking of this sort can provide the basis for community action in defense of social justice and equity in education.