Posted on 04/13/2021 6:04:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Where does critical race theory come from? An older thesis that flattens all human experience into an unrelenting state of war.
hankfully, not every idea or theory that begins in the academy breaks through to the mainstream. For instance, my own discipline of sociology has four major theoretical pillars—structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, feminism, and conflict theory. The only one out of the four that has achieved any real degree of larger public recognition is feminism. As such, it might surprise some readers to know that, right up there with feminism in terms of its popular influence, is conflict theory. If you’re wondering how such a claim could be true, consider conflict theory’s intellectual kin: critical race theory and intersectionality.
Critical race theory asserts that race and racism are always linked. Moreover, it holds that race will always be about inequality between groups and the domination of one group by another. The correct response, in this line of thinking, is to always view the world of social problems in general, and racial disparities in particular, through the prism of race and racism. In fact, the theory proposes that solutions that aren’t explicitly race-conscious are themselves little more than a tool to maintain the dominance of whites over people of color.
Intersectionality, another intellectual relative of conflict theory, is neck and neck with critical race theory in its recent leap into mainstream popularity. Intersectionality or intersectional theory focuses on the way individuals and groups experience oppression based on multiple aspects of their identity. In other words, a Black woman’s experience of oppression can neither be grouped in with women’s or Blacks’ experiences more generally and is its own unique reality. While race is clearly an important component, intersectionality also considers gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, ability status, and other dimensions
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The genocidal Marxists are woking up again.
Short, chubby and not that attractive.
I have the intersectionality market cornered!
Why can’t we all just get along?
It would like me if it new me.
CRT is just Marxism with race substituted for capital.
At a high level I agree with what I’m reading in the excerpt, from a general world view. It comes down to the concept of “not like me”. And that breaks down to race, clan, beliefs, etc., race being but one of them.
It’s how humans are wired. It’s part of why Jesus died for us. The natural man just goes with the natural wiring. The spiritual man strives to overcome it.
As a kid growing up I was always struck by the Palestinian issue. They made a virtue of their weaknesses and wielded it like a weapon against a powerful state (Israel). Then the other formative experience was Vietnam where a nuclear armed United States was engaged in an open ended conventional struggle with a relatively primitive North Vietnam. Again... the strong are weak and the weak are strong. It was... Orwellian.
Intersectionality seems to be like a board game where you get points for every perceived weak minority group in which you can claim membership. The more points that total up, the more powerful you are. We are living in bizarre times.
There is always going to be familiarity bias. It is part of human nature to value the people one is familiar with or close to over those one is not familiar with and not close to.
I have advanced degree in sociology - but not the Marxist version (Max Weber was anti-Marxist as well as Peter Berger). Why are most prominent sociologists either black or jewish? Or now feminists? Sociology has been turned into a false flag discipline.
It is not the familiarity of a group that is the issue. It is playing groups against each other using the multitude of differences to put groups into either the oppressor or oppressed group and push them into conflict.
When I read drivel like this my first thought is “Yes, I would like fries with that.” If it weren’t for academia that would be the only job these morons could hold down. And I have my doubts about that.
Think about it. Today’s Marxism is anti-Marxist. Antifa, BLM, etc. are composed of white, young activists mainly from upper middle class (academia). The Marxism they espouse is anti-working class (burn small businesses in Minneapolis, oppose independent working class and tradespersons, hate Proud Boys, etc).
The so-called sociologist of the Authoritarian Personality, Hannah Arendt, (embraced by many conservative dupes) blamed the white, working class in America for the Holocaust (go figure). In other words, Arendt blamed people not like her and not intellectuals. It is called psychological projection.
Marx was a journalist. He never even taught sociology. He was Jewish and then a Lutheran and later a rejecter of Christianity who did not like anyone who had money. He was a paid propagandist of Engels who was a rich industrialist.
Marx quote: “;What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money;. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man; and turns them into commodities;. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange;. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general”.
But Marx was also a intellectual huckster who depended on money from rich industrialists.
The only "truth" important to the Marxists is:
The world must first be viewed in terms of the Oppressed and the Oppressor, and ALWAYS in TERMS OF RACE!
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