please try to explain to me what this crucial concept means because i really can not understand why republicans find it so offensive
We know exactly what this evil vile racist garbage is. Manhattan Junior High Grouping Kids by Race in Social Justice Discussions. "This can’t be allowed to go on." The New York Post: Just Say No To This LeftWing Driven Racist Poison.
Amazing! You ask right-wingers to explain what CRT is, and all they can do is quote their wingnut media. The question asked by the OP is great! I don't think that there is a single right-winger here who can explain in their own words, what it is and why they oppose it. They'll go on about it being "marxist", or that it "teaches" racism... or whatever nonsense Tucker or their wignut media tells them, or some cherry-picked quote from an article or a book... But they will not be able to answer the OP's question. Prove me wrong.
Beats the hell out of me. I have a history textbook from the 1830s written by Daniel Webster. Now that has some critical race theories in it. Such as American Indians being racially prone to alcoholism, and Black people being less capable of deductive reasoning, and more prone to violence, and savagery. They seemed quit fond of "Orientals" however at least as being capable laborers.
anyone can read about it. The right may demonize it as some evil, racist philosophy/ideology but the left fails to recognize that it is, at it's core, racist too. High level, CRT is about questioning the world order, our current institutions, our laws and looking at everything from a racial lens, basically, making everything about race (everything is guided by prejudices which favor whites). The left may defend is as 'necessary' and the right remedy to address racial injustices but the right will point to it being counterproductive, that race shouldn't be used to drive policy and explain everything about our laws and institutions, that this, in fact, creates racism and can be viewed as racist, ironically. CRT even advocates for radical views.... just read up on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory ‘A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate racial outcomes are the result of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals’ ‘Scholars of CRT view race as an intersectionalsocial construct that is not "biologically grounded and natural",[11][8] and that advances the interests of white people[12] at the expense of persons of other races’ ‘"Black self-reliance and African cultural continuity should form the epistemic basis of Blacks' worldview."’ ‘Their writing was also informed by the 1960s and 1970s movements such as Black Power, Chicano, and radical feminist.’ ‘Cultural nationalism/separatism: The exploration of more radical views that argue for separation and reparations as a form of foreign aid (including black nationalism)’ ‘Critical race theory scholars question foundational liberal concepts such as Enlightenment rationalism, legal equality and constitutional neutrality, and they challenge the incrementalistapproach of traditional civil-rights discourse.[27] They favor a race-consciousapproach to social transformation, critiquing liberal ideas such as affirmative action, color blindness, role modeling, or the merit principle[77] preferring political organizing, in contrast to liberalism's reliance on rights-based remedies’
Are you really confused? Are you a Separatist? SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Segregating kids by race — even as a class exercise — will only fuel endless racial conflict. We judge people by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin, a concept the extremist within the left have deliberately forgot.
You are right. Anybody can "read about it". But very few (nobody?) on the right can explain it in their own words. I hesitate to believe that it's because they don't understand it. I think they CAN understand it. Because WHAT it is, is actually pretty simple. Agree or disagree with it, it's not that difficult to describe it in very few words. So I think that, when they actually research it, they learn that reality is waaaaay different from what their wingnut media tells them, and they just shut down. Like I was saying... right wingers in this forum cannot explain what CRT is in their own words.
i just posted some of the basic tenets of CRT, as a matter of fact. Wikipedia rightwing propaganda? You chose to ignore it. I don’t think you have the slightest clue what CRT is. Educate yourself. Reading leftwing propaganda and listening to joy reid at msnbc is not good learning material.
Take out the first six words and then capitalize the “R” in racism in the first paragraph you quoted and you have a decent definition. The dismantling of the ‘65 Voting Rights Act in the past couple decades would be a good illustration of it playing out. The study areas of zoning, housing, and banking is ripe with illustrations where this “definition” would be succinct. Personally I believe we’d have more success addressing some of these issues from a class based perspective because many of them do overlap. Of course, we’d be drawing out the class-based arguments— offending group(s) —and further slow affirmative steps to rectify the issues.
yeah, zoning is the biggest example of CRT going off the rails. It has NOTHING to do with race. Even middle class black people love the idea of living in single family homes where they don’t have to deal with a cosco being built in the middle or condos and cheaper housing being built all over, bringing house values down. Many non-whites seek these areas, even founders of BLM, ironically. It has nothing to do with race. Is the left saying blacks are incapable of earning enough money to live in these neighborhoods? Now that’s racist! Blacks, just like whites and asians and latinos and jews seek these areas, for a variety of reasons. Guess what, more white people are unable to live in these neighborhoods than blacks as there are more poor white people than blacks in this country. Maybe we need to start talking about how some zoning laws discriminate against whites!!!!! We have it all wrong!
It's another academic scam whereby the race grievance industry can get rich as they fleece big business and big government.
This thread asks two very basic questions to folks on the right: First is to explain, in their own words (briefly and succinctly) what Critical Race Theory IS. And Second, to explain why they oppose it. Not that they QUOTE some obscure text from some obscure author that they most likely don't understand. Not some absurd diatribe about how it originated, or what they think are "tenets" (because Tucker says so), or... anything like that. Straight up, what is it? And, after that (not before), why do you hate it? A proper answer shouldn't require more than two or three lines. And NO quotes or links from outside sources ("in your own words", remember?). This thread has had over 150 views... and not ONE single attempt. This is why there is no way in hell that we can never expect the right to engage in a serious debate ever again. They just grab their talking points from uneducated pundits at Fox an run with them. Most don't even understand them but... that doesn't appear to matter too much to them.
Depending on who is doing the discussion. CRT: Racial differences are not biological. They are environmental and insititutionalized. I have several problems with CRT. There are tremendous biological differences. Beyond the obvious, any medical test depends on the race. What is within limits for one race, is out of limits for a different race. According to CRT, somehow the white race is responsible for the blacks not doing as well as the white race. Much of the black's problems are a result of their own bad behavior. They have more single parent families and the black leadership tends to encourage bad behavior. They constantly rant about how bad the police are. In general, the problem is not the police, it is the blacks themselves. They are taught to disrespect the police rather than cooperating.
I will tell you that I saw a clip of CRT being taught, and it was such a sophisticated indoctrination that I was stunned then felt sick. Certainly, no child could discern what was happening. I would like to know what evil mind authored it.
