Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is
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.....Insert Critical Theory, or Critical Legal Theory in this case, which is a subset of CT, just like Queer Theory and CRT. All of them assert that words and, in particular, the law, are all about power structures. The current legal system is designed to preserve the power of the ruling elite, or white supremacy, or colonialism, or some form of oppression or another.
Words do not describe reality, and laws are not to create a working social order that is maximally fair. They are tools of oppression, and hence, everything that buttresses the current unjust power arrangement needs to be redefined.
When we point to basic facts and say “See?!,” the answer that Critical Theorists give is that the “facts” are an assertion of power, not an observation of reality.
I don’t want to get too deep in the philosophical weeds, but let me pull out a quote from a feminist critical theorist who believes that truth-seeking or critical thinking is all about maintaining power, not seeking to find truth, because “truth” depends upon where you are in the social order.....
Critical theory is all about implementing Marxism, and hence, what is true or false doesn’t matter, but rather what is useful for that goal and what is not. Power is the goal, not truth.
.....Critical Legal Theory is essentially the toolkit used by Marxists to shape the law to say whatever they want. You and I keep looking for words and references to say something about what is real, but reality is what critical theorists say it is, and they say it is whatever they need it to say.
We are looking for “epistemic adequacy,” or correlation with reality. Or in her case, correlation with the Constitution and established law. She sees that as an oppressive assertion of power by the dominant hierarchy to impose injustice. So she simply defines those away.
The reason why KBJ couldn’t provide a definition of a woman is not that she has none; it is because the definition literally does not exist until she conjures it in whatever context she needs to. As with her assertion about state power and treating trans kids, it all depends on the context. What she believes about state power depends entirely on whether it gets her the outcome she wants.
This is why arguing with people informed by Critical Theory is impossible. They are in a different world, referring to different things. You think you are both speaking the same language, but that is an illusion. An illusion they find useful if they can convince you through sophistry, but an illusion nonetheless.
Now, it is still possible that KBJ is simply a DEI hire without much of a brain in her head, but the fact that she makes no sense to us is not evidence of that. When I was in graduate school ran into perfectly nice and relatively smart people who would argue that physics isn’t real; it is a social construct. Gravity exists solely because we believe it does.
Academia is now filled with people who think this way, which explains why academics seem so loony. They are, in many ways, insane in the way we think of sanity, because they begin with a view of the world where “real” does not exist. It is socially constructed. Believing in “ground truth”—things that exist outside our minds—is a trap.
KBJ reasons back from her goals, because that is exactly how Critical Theory teachers her how to reason.
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And to make matters worse we have 204 law schools in this country. How many of them are teaching CRT as if it is law?
Thank you.
In short, KBJ is not “stupid”, per se, she just believes commie/evil crap.
Thanks for posting. Not much different than Islam allowing adherents to lie for strategic and conversion purposes.
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