Posted on 09/11/2023 4:27:45 PM PDT by karpov
Ancient and medieval astronomers could not explain the apparent movements of the heavenly bodies while shackled to a Ptolemaic paradigm of an Earth-centered universe. Thus they spun out ad hoc rescue hypotheses in the form of “epicycle” theory to explain away the anomalies. Their primary concern was the rescue of the theory rather than a reconsideration of it, which forced reality into a Procrustean bed—producing conformity by arbitrary means.
Likewise, today’s project known as “anti-racism” exhibits the same pre-Enlightenment mindset of mystical thinking that locked medieval humanity into an endless cycle of fear, superstition, and what we know today as pseudoscience.
When proponents of a theory reach the point where they spend more time rescuing their pet from disconfirmation than they do illuminating reality, they reveal themselves as harnessed to what Imre Lakatos called a “degenerating research program.” This is the current deteriorating state of critical racialism and “Critical Race Theory,” which are often subsumed under the generality of “anti-racism.”
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It is just Marxism through a racist lens.
I swear, ever since Obomination was selected, race relations have been set back 1000 years!
Well... Maybe only 150..., antebellum...
Should be 175, not 150...
The basis of CRT is that the reason blacks aren’t doing well is because of a vast conspiracy of white supremacists.
These white supremacists just have it in for blacks, but not Asians, who can arrive in the US penniless and not knowing English, like the Vietnamese boat people, and within a generation produce valedictorians and rise into the middle class.
CRT does not allow any thoughts that any oppressed group can solve its problems by changing attitudes and really trying.
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Is the campus using “”Eric Stewart”” fake ,black criminology prof fake data??????
Here are the authors of this junk literature.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell. Bell was a black civil rights activists, lawyer/professor.
Critical Whiteness Studies- An essay written by Barbara Applebaum.
Microaggressions in Everyday Life by Derald Wing Sue(professor) & Lisa Spanierman(psychologist/professor)
These four are a perfect representation of the political party that runs around, while filling their bank accounts up with $, pontificating about “racism, sexism, & climate change.”
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