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I don’t know how they even get away with calling it a “theory.” I think of theory as being something that can be scientifically tested and eventually either proven or disproven. Using that definition of the word “theory,” CRT does not qualify to be called that. It would be more properly called “Critical Race Dogma.”
Search ‘critical race theory children’s books’ – you’ll find hundreds of books that have become assigned reading in junior and senior high schools. Search ‘critical race theory instructional’ and you’ll find hundreds of tomes written for teachers to guide their indoctrination’s off those students. Visit any junior and senior high school and inquire about their CRT curriculum and they’ll proudly tell you about how they’re mangling this generation of young minds.
I’m no expert on CRT, but this from the article:
whites– based solely on the color of their skin– are privileged oppressors incapable of doing anything outside of their own self-interest
seems inconsistent with this from Wikipedia:
Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that white supremacy (societal racism) exists and maintains power through the law;[6] and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, are possible.[7]
Wikipedia’s version is incredibly watered down. CRT states that all people have hidden biases. It states that white people are the oppressors and people of color are the oppressed. Due to their subconscious bias, white people don’t know they are racist. If they deny bring racist this proves them to be even more racist. It also stipulates that society is geared toward white people and it is next to impossible for people to succeed. It is not enough to have equally opportunity. You must have equality of outcomes.
I grew up in a city in Los Angeles metro that was evenly divided between white, Mexican, and Asian. This was end of 1950s to end of 1970s. We never had any issues of race. It was middle class. This whole CRT is designed to break up the USA, especially by specific groups that make money or get power from this. CRT hurts the country and does nothing good for a community, county, or state.
The problem with all Marxist social theory is the same: class/race/religious differences create classes that cannot help but be in conflict with one another, that among them there will always be oppressors and oppressed, and that this is a situation that will never end – that it cannot ever end. It’s a terminal hopelessness that can only result in creating new aggrieved classes, but cannot ever alleviate the grievances of the supposed oppressed groups.
Moreover, Marxist theory holds that you cannot deem yourself to be not of the group to which their leadership assigns you. Individualism is rejected. As Ayanna Presley said last year, she didn’t want any Black people who didn’t have Black voices (those who thought for themselves).
Finally, the very notion of capitalizing these groups – how we saw that in less than a year black became Black – this is no accident. It is the imputation of a forced membership in racial identity that the capitalization is intended to accomplish. In this, they agree with the KKK and the Nazis, who capitalized White and Aryan, respectively. They also would refer to the Negro or the Jew, and held that those identities were immutable and indelibly defined the individual so categorized. Thus the Jews could not convert their way out of the death camps, and negroes could not educate themselves out of Jim Crow.
Isn’t it ironic that the modern Progressive movement holds that you can change your gender but cannot change your race – a characteristic for which very little can be found in science to confirm as real in the first place?
Sorry, Steven but your conception of “Marxism” is distorted. If anything, Critical Race Theory is a doctrine promoted by neoliberal capitalism. It substitutes universalist goals for everyone with racialized ones. Instead of discussing poverty as a function of social class, CRT and neoliberalism substitute race.
We need to get CRT out of all schools. It is a theory, our students need to learn facts to form their own opinions or theories.
I don’t know how they even get away with calling it a “theory.” I think of theory as being something that can be scientifically tested and eventually either proven or disproven. Using that definition of the word “theory,” CRT does not qualify to be called that. It would be more properly called “Critical Race Dogma.”
What are some of the publications that get used in schools that teach CRT?
The National SEED Project is one
Search ‘critical race theory children’s books’ – you’ll find hundreds of books that have become assigned reading in junior and senior high schools. Search ‘critical race theory instructional’ and you’ll find hundreds of tomes written for teachers to guide their indoctrination’s off those students. Visit any junior and senior high school and inquire about their CRT curriculum and they’ll proudly tell you about how they’re mangling this generation of young minds.
The 1619 Project, sponsored and promoted by the New York Times, is a key component of critical race theory thinking and instruction.
I’m no expert on CRT, but this from the article:
whites– based solely on the color of their skin– are privileged oppressors incapable of doing anything outside of their own self-interest
seems inconsistent with this from Wikipedia:
Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that white supremacy (societal racism) exists and maintains power through the law;[6] and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, are possible.[7]
Wikipedia’s version is incredibly watered down. CRT states that all people have hidden biases. It states that white people are the oppressors and people of color are the oppressed. Due to their subconscious bias, white people don’t know they are racist. If they deny bring racist this proves them to be even more racist. It also stipulates that society is geared toward white people and it is next to impossible for people to succeed. It is not enough to have equally opportunity. You must have equality of outcomes.
I grew up in a city in Los Angeles metro that was evenly divided between white, Mexican, and Asian. This was end of 1950s to end of 1970s. We never had any issues of race. It was middle class. This whole CRT is designed to break up the USA, especially by specific groups that make money or get power from this. CRT hurts the country and does nothing good for a community, county, or state.
The problem with all Marxist social theory is the same: class/race/religious differences create classes that cannot help but be in conflict with one another, that among them there will always be oppressors and oppressed, and that this is a situation that will never end – that it cannot ever end. It’s a terminal hopelessness that can only result in creating new aggrieved classes, but cannot ever alleviate the grievances of the supposed oppressed groups.
Moreover, Marxist theory holds that you cannot deem yourself to be not of the group to which their leadership assigns you. Individualism is rejected. As Ayanna Presley said last year, she didn’t want any Black people who didn’t have Black voices (those who thought for themselves).
Finally, the very notion of capitalizing these groups – how we saw that in less than a year black became Black – this is no accident. It is the imputation of a forced membership in racial identity that the capitalization is intended to accomplish. In this, they agree with the KKK and the Nazis, who capitalized White and Aryan, respectively. They also would refer to the Negro or the Jew, and held that those identities were immutable and indelibly defined the individual so categorized. Thus the Jews could not convert their way out of the death camps, and negroes could not educate themselves out of Jim Crow.
Isn’t it ironic that the modern Progressive movement holds that you can change your gender but cannot change your race – a characteristic for which very little can be found in science to confirm as real in the first place?
Sorry, Steven but your conception of “Marxism” is distorted. If anything, Critical Race Theory is a doctrine promoted by neoliberal capitalism. It substitutes universalist goals for everyone with racialized ones. Instead of discussing poverty as a function of social class, CRT and neoliberalism substitute race.
Kurt Hill
Brooklyn, NY