What Should We Do About Critical Race Theory?

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | February 9, 2022 | Douglas Carswell

[karpov]

Critical race theory (CRT) maintains that the United States is founded on racial supremacy and oppression. The US Constitution, legal system, and institutions, according to critical race theorists, are inherently racist. Unequal outcomes, they suggest, are a reflection of systemic racism.

America’s material achievement and economic growth, critical race theorists argue, has only been achieved through exploitation and coercion. The free market, far from elevating the condition of all Americans, is a tool of extortion.

Critical race theory is perhaps best thought of as a form of Marxism. Old-school Marxists divided the world by class—capitalist oppressor versus oppressed workers. Critical race theory is a new variant of Marxism that divides the world instead by race—race oppressors versus oppressed races.

The old-school Marxist solution was revolution. The workers, they advocated, should unite to overthrow an inherently exploitative system and build instead a new socialist society with top-down design. In pursuit of this idea, the twentieth century saw a series of Marxist revolutions, including those in Russia (1917), Cuba (1959), Ethiopia (1974), and Cambodia (1975), in which millions of people died. The workers’ paradise never quite emerged.

Critical race theorists in America today also seek to overturn the existing order. In the space of only a few years, this radical idea once confined to university campuses has started to take hold in mainstream society, including among big corporations, HR departments, government bureaucracies, and even the US military.

As an outsider who has only recently moved to America, I have a profound appreciation of what makes America the greatest republic on earth. As such, I believe critical race theory is profoundly harmful. Rather than encouraging young Americans to appreciate their country’s remarkable moral and material achievements, it invites them to lose confidence.

[Paperpusher]

CT had nothing to do with race. CRT was developed by white dudes not to keep races separate but to cause the blacks to start a revolution

Commies have been trying to start a revolution in America for the last 100 years. They got close in the 1960’s but everything was going along too good in America for it to happen. People must be made to be dissatisfied with the current conditions. Even with the race agitation today, BLM rioters are mostly young white criminals, mental cases, and Marxist trained collage students. A civil war or revolution is the last thing we need. The current crop of Commies infecting our government have only one chance, and that is to try and remove Christ and Christian morality and cause an economic collapse in America. Then we may have the “great reset” they have been hoping for; God help us if that happens. Mexico will complete the border wall to keep forth world Americans from seeking a better life in Mexico.

[jmacusa]

Seen here on FR; “Critical Race Theory. “Mien Kampf’’ for liberals’’.

[Albion Wilde]

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