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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory
New Discourses ^ | 24 May, 2021 | JAMES LINDSAY

Posted on 05/29/2021 4:12:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it. Here are five questions that many people are asking about Critical Race Theory along with straight answers, explanations, and a raft of proofs from the Critical Race Theory literature itself. My hope is that people will be able to use these proofs to show people that Critical Race Theory is every bit as bad as its critics contend.

Since these proofs run rather long in some cases, here are the questions and answers as a summary:

1. Is Critical Race Theory racist? Yes.

2. Does Critical Race Theory advance the vision and activism of the Civil Rights Movement? No.

3. Does Critical Race Theory say all white people are racist? Yes.

4. Is Critical Race Theory Marxist? Yes and no.

5. Is Critical Race Theory an analytical tool for understanding race and racism? No, not really.

Question: Is Critical Race Theory racist? Answer: Yes.

Critical Race Theory begins by asserting the importance of social significance of racial categories, rejecting colorblindness, equality, and neutrality, and advocating for discrimination meant to “level the playing field.” These things lead it to reproduce and enact racism in practice. It also explicitly says that all white people are either racist or complicit in the system of racism (so, racist) by virtue of benefiting from privileges that they cannot renounce.

SNIP

Question: Does Critical Race Theory advance the vision and activism of the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer: No.

Critical Race Theory refers to that vision as “traditional approaches to civil rights” and calls it into question. The Civil Rights Movement called for living up to the foundational promises of the United States (and other free nations) and incrementally changing the system so that those original ideals were met. Critical Race Theory rejects incrementalism in favor of revolution.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cancelantifa; cancelblm; cancelcnn; cancelcommunism; cancelfakenews; cancelindoctrination; cancelliberalbias; cancelmao; cancelmaoism; cancelmarxism; cancelmarxists; cancelmsnbc; communism; criticalracetheory; crt

1 posted on 05/29/2021 4:12:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

“Critical” as in criticize and find fault and place blame on what radicals want to tear down. Critical Race Theory is nothing but a tool. It is a wrecking ball to destroy Western Civilization.


2 posted on 05/29/2021 4:12:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
CRT in one picture:


3 posted on 05/29/2021 4:22:26 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: MtnClimber

CRT has infiltrated every level of American society. It will require a Herculean effort to root it out and destroy it at this point.


4 posted on 05/29/2021 4:26:39 AM PDT by tatown
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To: MtnClimber

“advocating for discrimination meant to “level the playing field.”

The crab bucket mentality writ large. Don’t anybody do better than me; it’s racist!


5 posted on 05/29/2021 4:34:11 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: polymuser
CRT in one picture:

The title of the article should have been : Five Big Fat Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory

6 posted on 05/29/2021 4:34:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

1) No, it is not “racist” because it is a weapon against white people. The concept oof racism was invented by communists as a means of attacking what was a white and Christian establishment. It has never been a set of neutral principles. That’s why DR3 is a terrible rhetorical strategy.

Nearly all of what is called “racism” that occurs in real life (as opposed to in something Hollywood produces) is normal human in-group/out-group behavior. The Left pathologizes normal behavior all the time.

2) Yes. Critical Race Theory is simply a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King was not a gun-totin’ Republican. He was a communist. He made a speech that made a huge generation feel better about themselves, allowing them to feel morally superior to their square parents. Jesse Jackson didn’t “lose his way” at some point, nor did John Lewis. The Civil Rights Movement was always about destroying the white and Christian establishment. Black people were merely a tool.

The people who opposed the Movement (which included William F. Buckley, Jr. and Senator Barry Goldwater) said that this forced integration would wreck the schools and cities. I guess history taught those racists a lesson. Lol.


7 posted on 05/29/2021 4:51:24 AM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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To: polymuser; All

I’m glad to see multiple people posting that. I’m pretty sure I was the first. Got it at TheDonald.

And in case anyone is wondering, that is real. That URL on the whiteboard leads to her web site.

Imagine being forced to sit through that struggle session!


8 posted on 05/29/2021 4:56:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I’ve shared that pic LOT. It is perfect. Glad you brought it to FR.


9 posted on 05/29/2021 5:00:09 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


10 posted on 05/29/2021 5:07:25 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: polymuser

Lol!

Critical WEIGHT theory!


11 posted on 05/29/2021 5:07:41 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Fat and proud, I guess.

I really miss the America of my youth, when women were a lot different.


12 posted on 05/29/2021 5:32:10 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: MtnClimber
Is Critical Race Theory Marxist? Yes and no.

Oppressor = Capital

Oppressed = Labor

13 posted on 05/29/2021 5:59:39 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: polymuser

Look at all the white putz sheep listening intently to their black owner!! And she does own them by the way.


14 posted on 05/29/2021 6:07:08 AM PDT by albie
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To: polymuser

Is there any way you could give me the link to the article that has that picture? I need to pass that on. Thank you very much.


15 posted on 05/29/2021 6:26:29 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (May the 10 just men lacking in Sodom be found in America, for it’s sake of survival.)
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To: jackibutterfly

I’m pretty sure I was the first one to bring it to Free Republic. I found it at TheDonald, aka Partriots.win

From a reverse image search here:

https://tineye.com/search/c5ce9be02fe4b88e3ccb1fff7aafd4a29b581fd9?sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1

it looks like it dates back to 2017.


16 posted on 05/29/2021 7:12:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: jackibutterfly
Is there any way you could give me the link to the article that has that picture? I need to pass that on. Thank you very much.

Ever Seen a Woke Instructor Teach a Roomful of White People They're 'Racist, Sub-Human Demons'? Here Ya Go...

17 posted on 05/29/2021 7:20:32 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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To: polymuser

18 posted on 05/29/2021 7:55:06 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: jackibutterfly

https://www.vice.com/en/article/433n3j/desus-and-mero-discuss-an-activists-all-white-people-are-racist-lecture

https://youtu.be/jWoC90bbsdo


19 posted on 05/29/2021 1:01:34 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: MtnClimber

Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!

20 posted on 05/29/2021 3:06:04 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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