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Stop Calling Everything You Don't Like 'Critical Race Theory' | Opinion
Newsweek ^ | 6/29/2021 1:52 PM EDT | Isaac Baily, Professor of Public Policy, Davidson College

Posted on 06/29/2021 7:34:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Critical race theory is something very specific: It’s an attempt to deal with how race affects even neutral seeming laws. That’s what it actually is. And yet, over the past year or so, it has become so many other things that people don’t like about how people talk about race. It is important to actually define these terms.

If you don’t like the book White Fragility, just say you don’t like that book—and explain why. Don’t try to lump that into this whole CRT label. […]

Take white privilege, for instance. Most people have what I would call a fluency privilege. As a stutterer in a world that is built on fluency, they have a massive advantage over me. I am not saying that to try to make you feel guilty about your fluency, and I am not trying to say that I am less equal because I stutter.

And yet, in a country that was founded on race-based chattel slavery…

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: baileyiscorrect; blackliesmatter; blackracist; criticalracetheory; fakenews; isaacbailey; isaacbaily; isaacjbailey; newsweak; racistscum; whoops
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. . . you are a college professor. Who engages in some pathetic equivocation.
1 posted on 06/29/2021 7:34:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

CRT is a faulty concept which is pushed by racists who don’t like white people. I don’t like it.


2 posted on 06/29/2021 7:36:32 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Olog-hai

So, call the rest Marxism.

EZ PZ

Simple really.


3 posted on 06/29/2021 7:36:36 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Olog-hai

My nephew told his Grandfather(My father) recently that George Washington was a bad man because he had slaves, and that Pennsylvania is a bad state because we have coal. My Sister is a lefty, but even I don’t think she’d tell him that guff about George Washington. The only thing I can think of is Critical Race Theory.


4 posted on 06/29/2021 7:38:25 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: Olog-hai

From the people who call EVERYTHING they don’t like, racist or sexist.

I mean for godsakes they now call math racist.


5 posted on 06/29/2021 7:39:47 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Racitty race race race!!!!


6 posted on 06/29/2021 7:41:22 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hitler killed 6 million Jews, which is bad.
We’ve aborted 60 million babies. Liberals think that’s really awesome and stuff, but they’d like to get back to discussing how NFL millionaires are oppressed because of their skin color.


7 posted on 06/29/2021 7:42:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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" in a country that was founded on race-based chattel slavery"

The wisdom of a comic book culture.
8 posted on 06/29/2021 7:42:46 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Olog-hai

Newsweek is still around? I keep forgetting about them until they post something stupid like this.


9 posted on 06/29/2021 7:42:48 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Olog-hai

The Founding Fathers were abolitionist. The country was not founded based on chattel slavery.


10 posted on 06/29/2021 7:43:42 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Amazing how the gravitational force equation makes humans of any race fall towards the surface of the earth, equally.


11 posted on 06/29/2021 7:44:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

How about we call it communistic claptrap, since that is what it is.


12 posted on 06/29/2021 7:45:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

OK, professor. If you just hate Whitey, SAY SO! Stop this nonsense about privilege because most whites have WORKED for what they have - and I don’t give a rat’s rear end about how privileged some white guy was in South Carolina in 1850! MY FAMILY was dirt poor. Both grandparents had NOTHING. My parents had high school educations. Period. And my wife was born in a foreign country and she was poorer than any American has been in the last 100 years.


13 posted on 06/29/2021 7:45:09 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Olog-hai

I once started to read an article on white privilege. I quit reading once I got to the part about black people having to walk further down the aisle for their hair products. Unfortunately, I’m not joking.


14 posted on 06/29/2021 7:45:21 PM PDT by Bogle
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Bailey and his cohorts are working (a little too transparently) to cover the facts up.


15 posted on 06/29/2021 7:45:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Newsweek is Critical Race Theory.


16 posted on 06/29/2021 7:46:09 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Olog-hai

This story is Critical Race Theory. And it was literally written by Hitler.


17 posted on 06/29/2021 7:47:05 PM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: Olog-hai; All
And yet, in a country that was founded on race-based chattel slavery…

The country was not founded on race-based chattel slavery.

Race based chattel slavery was just one of many things happening in the country, and it did not start with that as a founding concept.

18 posted on 06/29/2021 7:49:18 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Olog-hai

That’s fine. I lump everything that liberals do as liberalism and their desire to destroy the world.


19 posted on 06/29/2021 7:49:48 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: marktwain

Slavery was given to America to deal with.


20 posted on 06/29/2021 7:50:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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