The Definitive Critical Race Theory Thread

[Lesh]

Why are Republicans upset?​

Many Republicans view the concepts underlying critical race theory as an effort to rewrite American history and convince white people that they are inherently racist and should feel guilty because of their advantages.

But the theory also has become somewhat of a catchall phrase to describe racial concepts some conservatives find objectionable, such as white privilege, systemic inequality and inherent bias.

Where did Republican pushback begin?​

Republicans often cite the 1619 Project as a cause for concern. The New York Times initiative, published in 2019, aimed to tell a fuller story of the country’s history by putting slavery at the center of America’s founding.

Critical race theory popped into the mainstream last year when then-President Trump took aim at it and the 1619 Project during a White House event focused on the nation’s history. He called both “a crusade against American history” and “ideological poison that … will destroy our country.”


Attacking schools with this nonsense is racist Trumper shit

 

[Correll]

Well, the facts disagree with you Lesh:

There are plenty of other examples that prove racial essentialism and collective guilt are being taught to young students. In Cupertino, California, an elementary school required third graders to rank themselves according to the “power and privilege” associated with their ethnicities. Schools in Buffalo, New York, taught students that “all white people” perpetuate “systemic racism” and had kindergarteners watch a video of dead black children, warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.”

Yes, critical race theory is being taught in public schools - Washington Examiner

While we all debate what critical race theory is and whether lawmakers should ban it from public schools, every honest person should agree on one thing: This theory is behind the curricula in school districts all over the country, shaping the minds of unsuspecting, malleable children.Just this...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Thanks leo.

Well Lesh, you going to admit you are a lying hack?

 

[Correll]

Is critical race theory being taught in schools?​

There is little to no evidence that critical race theory itself is being taught to K-12 public school students, though some ideas central to it, such as lingering consequences of slavery, have been. In Greenwich, Connecticut, some middle school students were given a “white bias” survey that parents viewed as being part of the theory.

Republicans in North Carolina point to the Wake County Public School System as an example, saying teachers participated in a professional development session on critical race theory. County education officials canceled a future study session once it was discovered but insist the theory is not part of its classroom curriculum.

“Critical race theory is not something we teach to students,” said Lisa Luten, a spokeswoman for the school system. “It’s more of a theory in academia about race that adults use to discuss the context of their environment.”

THis lie has already been debunked by leo.

 

[Correll]

Why are Republicans upset?​

Many Republicans view the concepts underlying critical race theory as an effort to rewrite American history and convince white people that they are inherently racist and should feel guilty because of their advantages.

But the theory also has become somewhat of a catchall phrase to describe racial concepts some conservatives find objectionable, such as white privilege, systemic inequality and inherent bias.

Where did Republican pushback begin?​

Republicans often cite the 1619 Project as a cause for concern. The New York Times initiative, published in 2019, aimed to tell a fuller story of the country’s history by putting slavery at the center of America’s founding.

Critical race theory popped into the mainstream last year when then-President Trump took aim at it and the 1619 Project during a White House event focused on the nation’s history. He called both “a crusade against American history” and “ideological poison that … will destroy our country.”


Attacking schools with this nonsense is racist Trumper shit

"White Privilege" is anti-white racism. YOu are a racist asshole.

 

[Leo123]

Thanks leo.

Well Lesh, you going to admit you are a lying hack?

I wouldn't hold my breath on that.....

 

[Leo123]

Why are Republicans upset?​

Many Republicans view the concepts underlying critical race theory as an effort to rewrite American history and convince white people that they are inherently racist and should feel guilty because of their advantages.

But the theory also has become somewhat of a catchall phrase to describe racial concepts some conservatives find objectionable, such as white privilege, systemic inequality and inherent bias.

Where did Republican pushback begin?​

Republicans often cite the 1619 Project as a cause for concern. The New York Times initiative, published in 2019, aimed to tell a fuller story of the country’s history by putting slavery at the center of America’s founding.

Critical race theory popped into the mainstream last year when then-President Trump took aim at it and the 1619 Project during a White House event focused on the nation’s history. He called both “a crusade against American history” and “ideological poison that … will destroy our country.”


Attacking schools with this nonsense is racist Trumper shit

The full story of slavery is already available and taught in American History. Not only that we have lots of books written about slavery, movies, etc. You can read the history of the Civil War, the 60's protestors, MLK, civil rights marches, civil rights lawyers, etc. We don't need a radical-Marxist 1619 'fuller story.' Republicans are correct calling it an American history rewrite.

 

[scruffy]

It's an unproven theory.

It's not a theory

It's PROPAGANDA.

 

[scruffy]

Lol! A bunch of garbage. You don't know what CRT is and you claim to have attended Columbia. So go to the Columbia law department and talk to Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw so you can learn what it really is because shes one of the creators of the theory. All you long winded post did was show that you have no clue of what the theory is.

There is NO theory.

CRT is a steaming pile of communist propaganda.

 

[scruffy]

Go talk to Dr. Crenshaw so you can learn what CRT really is.

Authority fallacy.

 

[scruffy]

Here I am slappin’ you around like a school girl at a Taliban picnic.

Thoroughly pWned.

 

[scruffy]

And you continue denying nearly 246 years of documented white racial preferences. Without those preferences whites have nothing. That's what racists do.

You have just proven yourself to be a dimwitted racist progtard.

Congratulations.

 

[scruffy]

That sounds like a threat?
Relax, we are all sure that you are very, very tough.

Shit. Don't care how tough the dimwitted progtard thinks he is. Not wasting my time on his bullshit. Going after the 5000 teachers who threatened my children instead. This other one is largely irrelevant

 

[scruffy]

Wrong.

And no one ever teaches kids that

There IS mention of he effects of dedace osf racist policies though and THAT is what you actually take issue with

You are so full of bullshit it isn't even funny.

PC just posted THIRTY examples of exactly what you're denying

Are you a liar or just retarded?

 

[Correll]

You are so full of bullshit it isn't even funny.

PC just posted THIRTY examples of exactly what you're denying

Are you a liar or just retarded?

Liar. She is a liar. She knows the shit she is spewing from her face anus, is shit.

 

[Lisa558]

This Marxist-based theory, advanced by anti-American Democrats, has as its roots several big lies that the Marxists need to brainwash children with in order to destroy the country and/or put whites in an inferior position in society.

1) That the “truth about our bad, racist country must not be hidden.”

The truth has not been hidden. Students learn about slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, and the wrongs in which blacks were treated generations ago. The fact is the Marxist want to rewrite history, leading to…..

2) The country was founded on slavery In 1619.

This too is not true. The country was founded by those with an English heritage in 1776 who wanted an independent country, free to practice whichever religion (or none) they saw fit, and was devised with an amazing foresight. Slavery was an accepted custom throughout the world at that time, and so the new Americans accepted it as well.

3) Blacks built this country.

True, blacks provided significant labor, but so did whites. Most whites did not own slaves at all and did labor themselves. Beyond, whites ALSO built this country - and to a greater extent, if for no other reason than there were more of them - through wonderful, and even life-saving medical, technological, mechanical, and scientific developments.

4) America is still a racist country, and whites are innately racist.

Besides the psychological damage done to white children to teach them they are of an evil, bad race, it simply isn’t true. Racist laws were abolished decades ago, and any black with an equivalent character, collateral, and capacity (the 3 C’s of lending) can get the same mortgage as a white; any black with the same work experience and capability can get the same job as a white. (In fact, with Diversity Officers, blacks get prioritized for hires and promotions, and whitrs must be far better to win jobs over them.)

4) The “stand alone” lie.

The CRT Marxists are acting as though America stands alone with a history of slavery, and advances the attitude that this country is the worst. They are NOT teaching, for instance, that America got rid of slavery long before many other countries - and that it still exists today in other countries.

In summary, this is all to indoctrinate vulnerable children to hate their country, hate their white parents, and be primed 15 years from now to vote in a slew of anti-white racist laws, not the least of which is reparations. Activists consider this “pay-back.”

 

[scruffy]

This Marxist-based theory, advanced by anti-American Democrats, has as its roots several big lies that the Marxists need to brainwash children with in order to destroy the country and/or put whites in an inferior position in society.

1) That the “truth about our bad, racist country must not be hidden.”

The truth has not been hidden. Students learn about slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, and the wrongs in which blacks were treated generations ago. The fact is the Marxist want to rewrite history, leading to…..

2) The country was founded on slavery In 1619.

This too is not true. The country was founded by those with an English heritage in 1776 who wanted an independent country, free to practice whichever religion (or none) they saw fit, and was devised with an amazing foresight. Slavery was an accepted custom throughout the world at that time, and so the new Americans accepted it as well.

3) Blacks built this country.

True, blacks provided significant labor, but so did whites. Most whites did not own slaves at all and did labor themselves. Beyond, whites ALSO built this country - and to a greater extent, if for no other reason than there were more of them - through wonderful, and even life-saving medical, technological, mechanical, and scientific developments.

4) America is still a racist country, and whites are innately racist.

Besides the psychological damage done to white children to teach them they are of an evil, bad race, it simply isn’t true. Racist laws were abolished decades ago, and any black with an equivalent character, collateral, and capacity (the 3 C’s of lending) can get the same mortgage as a white; any black with the same work experience and capability can get the same job as a white. (In fact, with Diversity Officers, blacks get prioritized for hires and promotions, and whitrs must be far better to win jobs over them.)

4) The “stand alone” lie.

The CRT Marxists are acting as though America stands alone with a history of slavery, and advances the attitude that this country is the worst. They are NOT teaching, for instance, that America got rid of slavery long before many other countries - and that it still exists today in other countries.

In summary, this is all to indoctrinate vulnerable children to hate their country, hate their white parents, and be primed 15 years from now to vote in a slew of anti-white racist laws, not the least of which is reparations. Activists consider this “pay-back.”

That, and lefties are a bunch of fucking liars.

 

[Lisa558]

And all of this is leading to a major effort to ignore the existence of whites in this country, or treat them as if they are of little consequence. I just went onto Zillow. The photo on their main page shows the happy couple in front of their new home - a black man and a white woman. Why do 80% of ads showing American couples have to be of black couples or biracial couples? The underlying message is that whites, the bad race, should be recognized as infrequently as possible.

 

[Lesh]

Slavery was an accepted custom throughout the world at that time, and so the new Americans accepted it as well.

Most of the developed world dropped it well before we did. WE doubled down...because cotton and then held the descendents of slavery down for 100 + years

True, blacks provided significant labor, but so did whites. Most whites did not own slaves at all and did labor themselves. Beyond, whites ALSO built this country - and to a greater extent, if for no other reason than there were more of them - through wonderful, and even life-saving medical, technological, mechanical, and scientific developments.

Blacks provided mot of the bulk manual labor (that wasn't providd by Chinese immigrants) and recieved near zero benefit

4) America is still a racist country,

Your posts and this forum attest to that

whites are innately racist.

Not all but many

The CRT Marxists are acting as though America stands alone with a history of slavery, and advances the attitude that this country is the worst. They are NOT teaching, for instance, that America got rid of slavery long before many other countries - and that it still exists today in other countries.

See above. We held on to it far longer than mopst first world countries and then subjegated blacks for 100+ years

That's a long time. Many generations. Much harm comes from that

 

[Lesh]

I just went onto Zillow. The photo on their main page shows the happy couple in front of their new home - a black man and a white woman. Why do 80% of ads showing American couples have to be of black couples or biracial couples?

You REALLY hate black folks huh...

 

[PoliticalChic]

I strongly suspect you (Political Chic) will be tickled pink to hear this, but I have come to view you, not as misguided or contrarian but actually, demonstrably evil. I believe you experience pleasure at doing harm to the innocent. So, here. Enjoy someone who knows this topic a lot better than you or I.

From: James Lindsay v. Critical Race Theory

James Lindsay v. Critical Race Theory​

#ConceptualDisinformation Vol. 1​

Samuel Hoadley-Brill May 3, 2021

What is critical race theory (CRT)?
To attempt a rough, one-sentence summary: CRT is an approach to racial scholarship born in law schools in the 1980s that operates from the premises of pervasive racial inequality and a social constructionist (i.e. anti-essentialist) conception of race; challenges the idea that the superficially colorblind nature of the law means the law is race-neutral; and seeks to explain how landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s failed to deliver on its promises of equality for the racial minorities it was supposed to uplift.
As my professor Charles Mills explains in the epilogue of his 2017 book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, critical race theorists take up two tasks. The first is descriptive: “to recognize and theorize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world”; and the second is prescriptive: “[to recognize and theorize] the implications for normative theory and an expanded vision of what needs to be subjected to liberatory critique to achieve social justice.”
It is important to note here that Mills is using white supremacy to denote the political system of racial domination of whites over non-whites, not the ideology of white supremacist groups like the KKK; the term is ambiguous, and it is the former definition that is relevant for our purposes.
If you’re looking to dive deep into the scholarship on CRT, the papers compiled here will be helpful. Before addressing James Lindsay’s farcical claims about CRT, the debunking of which is the main purpose of the present essay, let’s set the table with a more detailed definition proposed in the 1993 book, Words That Wound, co-authored by Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlè Crenshaw:

Rather than seeing racism as aberrational, CRT scholars see it as a normal feature of American society. After all, the legacy of centuries of race-based slavery and second-class citizenship doesn’t fade away overnight.

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” as Howard Zinn famously put it. CRT is well aware of this, and it contends that our inquiry would benefit from a recognition that there is no view from nowhere; we all speak from some perspective, one that is not immune to the influences of racialization. Further, the pervasive racial inequality we see in the United States is not produced merely by individual acts of discrimination. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said in 1967, “Negroes have become aware of the deeper causes for the crudity and cruelty that governed white society's responses to their needs. They discovered that their plight was not a consequence of superficial prejudice but was systemic” (emphasis mine).

At first glance, this may look a failure to recognize that correlation does not entail causation. But what the authors are claiming is not the naive thesis that every racial disparity is attributable to racism. The claim is that, given the history of the United States’ treatment of racial minorities—coupled with the commitment to social constructionism about race—we can safely make a defeasible assumption that a complete causal analysis of any particular (dis)advantage along racial lines will include some racist policy or practice.

This claim may seem more controversial, but it can be interpreted in a weaker or a stronger sense. I draw here on a useful distinction made by Georgetown philosophy professor Olúfémi O. Táíwò in his excellent essay “Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference.” According to the weaker reading, this passage articulates standpoint epistemology, which amounts to three claims: (1) Knowledge is socially situated; (2) Marginalized people have some positional advantages in gaining some forms of knowledge; (3) Research programs ought to reflect these facts.
Indeed, it is hard to see how this could be wrong. Táíwò draws on the work of London School of Economics philosophy professor Liam Kofi Bright, who

This is precisely the sort of theoretical framework Mills employs in his work on the epistemology of ignorance.
If we read the passage in a stronger sense, however, the claim can be interpreted as much more dangerous. It might be taken to suggest, contrary to CRT’s own commitments, an essentialist account of racial identity, one where only people of color are capable of working toward the elimination of racism; whites must simply defer to the voices of their non-white peers. This is the sort of pernicious mindset Táíwò calls deference epistemology, an approach to knowledge that is not only philosophically objectionable but politically self-destructive. In keeping with the principle of charity and the fact that I have never encountered CRT scholarship that supports deference epistemology, I read the authors’ claim in its weaker sense.

I discuss the ways in which CRT is both critical of and deeply committed to tenets of liberalism later in this essay. And finally,

I'm not a Janissary of evil...I'm in upper management.