Posted on 04/02/2021 4:05:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Like a cancerous tumor that has metastasized in the body, Critical Race Theory and its variants including social justice; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI); anti-racism; cultural competency; and implicit bias have poisoned all aspects of public education and even some private schools. These hateful and racist philosophies have become entrenched in every level and aspect of American public education.
The basis for Critical Race Theory is the belief that America is systemically racist and divided into a racial hierarchy with black people at the bottom. For America's inherent racism to end, Caucasians must recognize that through the color of their skin, they are afforded certain privileges in American society that "people of color" do not have. Once this recognition is made, American society can begin the radical process of dismantling every institution and remaking each to bring about equity, or equality of outcomes for everyone. This radical alteration of every aspect of American society is communism, using race as the basis for the destruction of traditional norms and values.
Critical Race Theory was developed in the 1970s by Professor Derrick Bell of Harvard Law School to challenge what he believed was America's inherent racism that permeates every aspect of society, especially the law. While Bell's focus was the legal system, the law, and society at large, Critical Race Theory specifically expanded into the field of education through various scholars such as Gloria Ladson-Billings and Daniel Solórzano. These theorists claim that the American education system is systemically racist for the following reasons: school curricula are dominated by a white narrative of history that leaves out the experiences of black Americans, testing instruments are biased and have been created to prove that non-white children are incapable of high achievement, and school discipline policies are disproportionate in their treatment of children of color
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The leftist mob seems very intent on turning every aspect of a functioning society into upside down insanity.
You need to rearrange the initials. It’s Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE).
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Obama Embraces Racist & Radical Professor Derrick Bell @ Harvard Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirsDdFEIgs
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No matter what criminal things blacks do,it’s always white supremacy behind it.... It’s never their fault...
Harvard! What a surprise!
I’m just waiting for someone to call me racist to my face, they are going to need a hell of a lot of dental work afterwards and I ain’t paying, I don’t care how many lawsuits they file and win.
Critical Race Theory has replaced the old, out-dated Reading Writing and Arithmetic as the primary focus of American schools.
They’ll graduate with honors in CRT without knowing how to read, write or compute.
Just the way the deep state wants it.
Africans from Africa in the USA are educated and hard working. They generally excel at their endeavors. It is not uncommon for them to be more prosperous than many of their white counterparts. They haven't learned yet that they are expected to fail unless the government intervenes.
Does critical race theory cite the following statistic to bolster their case about systemic white racism? FBI statistics reflect that annually 15,000 to 30,000 white women are raped by blacks while only less than 10 black women are raped annually by whites. Clearly, critical race theory must have found systemic white racism is the cause for why black women are raped in such low numbers.
It’s actually not very complicated.
“Critical Race Theory” is just an offshoot of “Critical Theory”.
It is the form of Critical Theory as applied to race.
“Critical Theory” at its root is about ruthlessly “criticizing” an existing social construct until it fractures and falls apart.
No need to imagine and propose something better. Just destroy and let the invading intellectual army take over and begin dictating terms to the conquered masses.
See also “Cloward-Piven”.
Some info about Critical Theory below:
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Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole. It differs from traditional theory, which focuses only on understanding or explaining society. Critical theories aim to dig beneath the surface of social life and uncover the assumptions that keep human beings from a full and true understanding of how the world works.
Critical theory emerged out of the Marxist tradition and was developed by a group of sociologists at the University of Frankfurt in Germany who referred to themselves as The Frankfurt School.
History and Overview
Critical theory as it is known today can be traced to Marx’s critiques of the economy and society. It is inspired greatly by Marx’s theoretical formulation of the relationship between economic base and ideological superstructure and focuses on how power and domination operate.
Following in Marx’s critical footsteps, Hungarian György Lukács and Italian Antonio Gramsci developed theories that explored the cultural and ideological sides of power and domination. Both Lukács and Gramsci focused their critique on the social forces that prevent people from understanding how power affects their lives.
Shortly after Lukács and Gramsci published their ideas, the Institute for Social Research was founded at the University of Frankfurt, and the Frankfurt School of critical theorists took shape. The work of the Frankfurt School members, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Herbert Marcuse, is considered the heart of critical theory.
Like Lukács and Gramsci, these theorists focused on ideology and cultural forces as facilitators of domination and barriers to freedom. The contemporary politics and economic structures of the time greatly influenced their thought and writing, as they lived during the height of national socialism. This included the rise of the Nazi regime, state capitalism, and the spread of mass-produced culture.
The Purpose of Critical Theory
Max Horkheimer defined critical theory in the book Traditional and Critical Theory. In this work, Horkheimer asserted that a critical theory must do two important things: It must account for society within a historical context, and it should seek to offer a robust and holistic critique by incorporating insights from all social sciences.
Further, Horkheimer stated that a theory can only be considered a true critical theory if it is explanatory, practical, and normative. The theory must adequately explain the social problems that exist, offer practical solutions for how to respond to them, and abide by the norms of criticism established by the field.
Horkheimer condemned “traditional” theorists for producing works that fail to question power, domination, and the status quo. He expanded on Gramsci’s critique of the role of intellectuals in processes of domination.
Key Texts
Texts associated with the Frankfurt School focused their critique on the centralization of economic, social, and political control that was transpiring around them. Key texts from this period include:
Critical and Traditional Theory (Horkheimer)
Dialectic of the Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer)
Knowledge and Human Interests (Habermas)
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Habermas)
One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Benjamin)
Critical Theory Today [as of August 2019]
Over the years, many social scientists and philosophers who rose to prominence after the Frankfurt School have adopted the goals and tenets of critical theory. We can recognize critical theory today in many feminist theories and approaches to conducting social science. It is also found in critical race theory, cultural theory, gender, and queer theory, as well as in media theory and media studies.
Updated by Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D.
Focusing on the men on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944, around 8:50 - 9:30 AM. That photo is from a series in a movie reel.
The survivors’ boat had sunk about 100 ft from the beach water line, and some fellows already on the beach, had helped the survivors to shore.
Over the years since, various images from the movie reel, have had captions more accurate to the location and circumstances, while other captions are way off the mark. Also, some captions make the assembly of men to be of the same unit, but they are not -— the men, gathered on the beach, are a mix of the boat survivors plus others who rushed out from the base of a cliff area.
The location on the beach, is east of Point du Hoc and west of the Vierville Draw Exit D-1 (Vierville-sur-Mer). (As far as I have been able to figure; and anybody could correct me.)
High tide would be around 10:20 AM.
Some info I found, indicates:
The particular cliff area, east of Point du Hoc, had emplaced guns within the cliff, below the sod and trench floor level - entrance was via a trench. Unlike the already difficult to spot, concrete emplacements arranged to fire up and down the beach, these particular cliff-dwelling gun locations were more difficult to spot, because of the natural camo of overhanging sod and root systems.
And those men, under such duress and in the greatest danger, never regarded their different races, states, religions, politics or gender-of-the-month. They were Americans who had to survive with a war to win. Someone please inform the Pentagon.
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