Critical Race Theory Explained

Big Government ^ | 3/11/2012 | Ben Shapiro

[servo1969]

So, what does CRT believe? In their primer, Critical Race Theory, Richard Delgado (one of the movement’s founders) and Jean Stefancic set out some basic principles:

1. “Racism is ordinary, not aberrational”;

2. “Our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.”

When taken together, these principles have serious ramifications. First, they suggest that legal rules that stand for equal treatment under law – i.e. the 14th Amendment – can remedy “only the most blatant forms of discrimination.” The system is too corrupted, too based on the notion of white supremacy, for equal protection of the laws to ever be a reality. The system must be made unequal in order to compensate for the innate racism of the white majority.

Second, these principles suggest that even measures taken to alleviate unequal protection under the law – for example, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education – were actually taken for nefarious purposes, to serve white interests. This is exactly what Derrick Bell believed: he said that Brown had only been decided in order to prevent the Soviet Union from using American racial inequality as a public relations baton to wield against the white-majority United States.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“1. “Racism is ordinary, not aberrational”;”

The same sort of person who holds to this; also claims that multiculturalism and “diversity” are wonderful things. They can not perceive the contradiction.

[PGR88]

The basis of critical race theory - whitey sucks.

[junta]

Means anti-white, nothing more.

[LibFreeUSA]

- "Critical Race Theory was developed out of legal scholarship."

- "CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society."

- "This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures."

- "CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy"

- "The works of Derrick Bell and Alan Freeman have been attributed to the start of CRT"

These are not my words.

These are the words right out of the "UCLA School of Public Affairs": ....What is Critical Race Theory

Those who believe, support, defend CRT, are saying that America is "racist" by it's own institutions, and that white people in general are a bunch of racists because white people are part of the "fabric and system" of American society.

[Joe the Pimpernel]

White “supremacy” bad, black “supremacy” good.

[556x45]

Yes, pretty much. Its another ‘reason’ to keep the wound open and race baiters in the money.

[ILS21R]

White guilt ping.

[blue-duncan]

Here is where the idea of CRT originated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QEIaATPis

[trappedincanuckistan]

The authors of CRT reject the Constitution as an inherently racist document because it limits the powers of government.

[kidd]

One thing that I find disturbing is that Mitt Romney thinks that Obama is merely “over his head”

And he is the GOP frontrunner.

How do you fight an enemy when you don’t understand his evil intentions, or that you don’t even realize he’s an enemy and that his actions are deliberate rather than merely incompetant?

[MrB]

Who was that hack on CNN who kept saying, to the effect,

“what are you afraid of, white guy?”

[liberalh8ter]

I don't believe Obama is Mitt's enemy.

[theBuckwheat]

“1. “Racism is ordinary, not aberrational”;”

The first rule of dealing with liberals is: he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of the conversation.

So, what exactly is the meaning of “racism”, “ordinary” and “aberrational”? I can’t even respond to CRT until I know what these words mean. Exactly.

[Regulator]

Racism is ordinary, not aberrational

If true, then non-whites are racist too, and favor their group over others

What else is new? The entire world is made up of race based nations

Seen any Caucasians running anything in Beijing?

[CrappieLuck]

Critical Race Theory is racist, black men blaming their hatred for whites on whites.

It’s as simple as that.

[nathanbedford]

I think it is about something more than mere race animus. I think it is an intellectual groping for a rationalization for overthrowing the system.

The level of intellectual rigor in the exercise is pathetic but its purpose is only to provide a fig leaf for doing what Obama had been doing on a small scale as a community organizer and is trying now to do on a grand scale as chief executive:

the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.

The left is always seeking a new rationalization to justify junking the system. In this case it's racism. Sometimes it's misogyny. But it can be virtually anything. The incident with Rush Limbaugh demonstrates that the gravamen of the alleged injustice need not be serious or genuine to serve the purpose.

The left will also try to change the venue and its strivings to junk the system. That is why it seeks to overrule the state at the federal level and the federal government in the United Nations.

I find it repugnant to my sense of decency that Harvard University would host this pseudo-intellectual endeavor on so many levels both in its law school and elsewhere. Can you imagine Harvard affording equal scope to a professor who argues that blacks should be control because they are violent and inferior? Why is one perspective inherently better or worse than the other? If Harvard lives in a world where subjectivism rules, why is a black man's critical race theory valid and a white racist's supremacy theory reprehensible?

Once one trades intellectual rigor for political correctness and subjectivism, there is no right or wrong, in fact there is no true or false. This is precisely the place that The Frankfurt School intended for our entire educational system to go and it has succeeded brilliantly in taking it there.

Once this dismal philosophical nihilism becomes the rule, the Constitution means nothing, reason means nothing, and the path is made straight for intellectual, moral, and political disintegration and ultimately totalitarianism.

[MrB]

Critical Race Theory is racist, black men blaming their hatred for whites on whites.

It’s as simple as that.

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very succinct.
“It’s your fault that I hate you.”

[junta]

I’m pretty sure they are anti-white.

[El Cid]

RE: 17

And I was just going say that they sucked...
You said it much better. Good observations and well stated on your post.