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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…

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KEYWORDS: baileyiscorrect; blackliesmatter; blackracist; criticalracetheory; fakenews; isaacbailey; isaacbaily; isaacjbailey; newsweak; racistscum; whoops
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To: Olog-hai

CRT is a way they think they can get what they want. What it’s going to end up doing is get them what they DON’T WANT. They’re just not smart enough to realize that.


21 posted on 06/29/2021 7:51:42 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: BenLurkin

I like that “communistic claptrap”!!!


22 posted on 06/29/2021 7:52:57 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Bullish

That depends on what they want. I believe they’ve maxed out the opportunity for capitalizing on dividing Americans, so they are focusing on destroying white people’s economic opportunities in order to come to the rescue and get white people to vote based on their skin colour.


23 posted on 06/29/2021 7:55:31 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: Olog-hai

Actually I call it Marxist Race Theory.


24 posted on 06/29/2021 8:04:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Olog-hai

Substitute “racism” for “critical race theory”.


25 posted on 06/29/2021 8:09:11 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Olog-hai

It’s all a cover for communism.


26 posted on 06/29/2021 8:10:21 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Jonty30

They really haven’t thought it through as well as that. CRT is really rooted in Marxist greed. The tool they’re using this time is racism and revenge. They’re using it like a pry bar to get some kind of crazy revolution.

They’ll lose.


27 posted on 06/29/2021 8:12:24 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Olog-hai

Critical Racist Theory.


28 posted on 06/29/2021 8:15:57 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Olog-hai

And yet, in a country that was founded on race-based chattel slavery, if I say that race has offered some people more advantages, that is suddenly taken as this massive offense. That is something that I have to push back on. A lot.
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To make his silly assed point, Mr. Baily ignores the Elephant in the room. 600,000 Americans died in order to STOP the Democratic Party from continuing slavery. Then, he ignores that trillions of cash and benefits have been given to blacks by whites with no discernible improvement in their lives. In fact, the average black in an inner city is worse off today than he was in 1960. Little black girls were not getting killed by stray bullets fired by young black males in 1960. Mr. Baily’s whole argument is demonstrable bullshit.


29 posted on 06/29/2021 8:18:26 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: ClearCase_guy

It also affects EVERYTHING.

Example: the lie that CRT isn’t taught K-12.

Sure, they don’t teach that academic theory to kindergartners. But it affects everything from:
* discipline policies
* “character education” that is explicitly “anti-racist”
* every book in the humanities (English, history) program
* every new book in the library
* math, science and other subjects having their lessons aligned to reflect the new approved worldview


30 posted on 06/29/2021 8:18:51 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Olog-hai
Don’t try to lump that into this whole CRT label

Hey, if we gotta take BLM, then you gotta take CTR.

Sauce for the goose, Baby.

31 posted on 06/29/2021 8:38:31 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Olog-hai
And yet, in a country that was founded on race-based chattel slavery…

Well, no. CRT is based on premises as false (and ridiculous) as this one. Accept them and everything else equally false and ridiculous follows. Reject them and you're a racist white supremacist. Stupid game, and only stupid people play it.

32 posted on 06/29/2021 8:46:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

It’s simply neo-racism. Transfer hatred from one group to another.
Then target, isolate, and wage war upon political enemies. Just like their Satan loving commie hero Saul Alinsky.


33 posted on 06/29/2021 8:52:11 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Olog-hai
Inexpensive book on CRT; good reference to keep with you.

CRT by David, L. Brown, Ph.D.

P.O. Box 173

Oak Creek, WI 53154

34 posted on 06/29/2021 8:53:02 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Secret Agent Man

Math isn’t racist? Who knew?


35 posted on 06/29/2021 9:02:40 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Olog-hai

This article is total BS. A pseudo intellectual attempt to justify the non justifiable.


36 posted on 06/29/2021 9:05:23 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: Olog-hai

Stop calling it... global warming, we all know it’s climate change.

We just use the names you (not you olog) give it.


37 posted on 06/29/2021 9:08:05 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive soo. words? Not being able to say them...God wins. )
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To: Olog-hai

Crt is just one little piece of a great big critical theory (communist) pie.


38 posted on 06/29/2021 9:23:58 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Olog-hai

I agree.


39 posted on 06/29/2021 9:40:23 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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If you don’t like the book White Fragility, just say you don’t like that book—and explain why …
What happens when you substitute Mein Kampf for White Fragility in that sentence?
40 posted on 06/29/2021 9:50:06 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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