In short...
"not being racist isn't enough, you have to actively be reverse racist (i.e. racist) in order to counter racism, otherwise you're a racist".
Some proponents of CRT think that people of different races need their own safe spaces free from white people. Things like bathrooms, cafés, bars, and public transport... that sort of thing. Basically, it's an insidious philosophy that makes wild unsubstantiated claims about racial inequality and how to fix it, but instead exacerbates racial division. It does away entirely with the concept of personal responsibility, replacing it with group identity; ultimately people are not to be judged by the content of their character, but by the inalienable properties of their racial background, and everyone is either a victim or guilty.
(, Mon 19 Jul 2021, 23:07, Reply)
I found this summary
to be a reasonably nuanced explanation www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
(, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 0:16, Reply)
that's totally not my understanding of critical race theory.
i can see how people would arrive there but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still to try to understand how race plays into societal systems.
its like saying don't teach philosophy or history because some people will draw from it the wrong conclusions.
(, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 20:22, Reply)
It's more like saying don't teach National Socialism
because some people will draw from it the wrong conclusions.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:46, Reply)
The teaching of Nazi history does not involve
indoctrinating the children into becoming Nazis.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 11:40, Reply)
Have you got a specific example of one of the wild unsubstantiated claims about racial inequality, and can you explain how it exacerbates racial division?
(, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 23:40, Reply)
Yeah sure,
One of the principle claims is that the difference in economic prosperity (in the US and thus by extension the entire world) between different racial groups is an inevitable product of white racism and privilege. If anyone points out that on average Jewish and Asian people in the US are more prosperous than white people, or that they get better grades in school, then the answer is that Jewishness and Asian-ness are both forms of whiteness.
Thus a lot of people who have swallowed the theory whole, and who have already been taught to hate white people, are now taught to hate Jews and Asians for being white or honorary white, or some stupid bullshit like that. Reality has to be adjusted, so that obvious untruths are taken as fact, in a desperate attempt to get the theory to fit.
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Or how about the whole idea of white privilege? Some white kid from a trailer park, poor as fuck, no chance of an education with the schools in his area. His future will be a succession of dead end jobs where he's treated like shit, and he's likely as not to propagate his own situation to create more children like him. Is that guy privileged in any way? The idea that every white person enjoys some kind of immense privilege is demonstrably not true.
But there it is... a concept from CRT that has seemingly pervaded all strata of society across the whole world. Wild. Unsubstantiated. Inherently racist itself. Easily disprovable. And its effect is to make people hate whites.
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I gave you two.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:33, Reply)