Posted on 04/21/2021 10:52:35 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. It’s time for this to change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.
In explaining critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society
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No, it makes no sense at all.
CRT is one of two possible explanations for why blacks are the way they are. Classical Marxism is a theory about value and the ways to increase it (frontloading the theoretical value of labor into wages as opposed to backloading it into prices).
This is the same argument that holds (falsely) that fascism and communism are the same.
CRT explains blacks by saying that they are the way they are because of something whites do, or do not do. When this fails (as it is now failing), it moves on to “structural racism”, which simply states that among whites, blacks should be able to live as they wish but cannot while among blacks, whites may not live as they wish but they nevertheless can.
Marxism is false but it can be sustained as long as popular unhappiness is controlled.
CRT is false, and although control mechanisms are being deployed in an attempt to sustain it, I believe they will fail.
The classic example of what happens when Critical Race Theory is implemented is the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe disaster.
Fortunately, the early proponents of this revolutionary coalition in the U.S. lost out in the 1960s to the civil rights movement, which sought instead the fulfillment of the American promise of freedom and equality under the law. Americans preferred the idea of improving their country to that of overthrowing it.
They didn't lose in the 60s. Rather they went underground in the 70s and 80s and co-opted not only the civil rights movement but American institutions in general , particularly academia. Today they seem to be fully in control of government, media, the corporate world, etc.
The way Critical Race Theory (or more accurately Critical Class Theory) is that it is slipped into the dogwood. One of the major intellectuals of the Frankfurt School is Hannah Arendt who wrote about the Authoritarian Personality. Many conservatives swallow her Leftist theory hook, line and sinker. Her view of the Holocaust is that it was caused by the White Working Class in America, not the Intellectual Class like Arendt herself.
Concur with your assessment
Yes the neo-marxists have shifted their tactics from class warfare to race warfare.
However, when the dust settles the blacks and the self hating whites who join the cause will find out that they are not winners. They will be peasants like everyone else.
The black/white conflict is a means to an end. But the end, the tyranny that is installed, is and always will be elites v peasants. The elite(black & white) will rule with an iron fist and any dissent(black & white) will be dealt with harshly.
Blacks think they will have a special status in the great reset. Truth is after they are no longer useful, they will just be peasants like everyone else.
Yes, but a LOT of kids K-12 and up are being indoctrinated with it, from the commies/socialists/marxists etc in Academia.
Yes, just as the IRA coat-tailed it’s way into power on the back of the Irish Catholic “Civil Rights” movement, those terrorists are now holding many governmental positions of power.
Critical Race Theory is nothing more than one offshoot of Critical Theory.
Critical Theory is actually not an academic discipline.
It’s a tool of (verbal) brute force developed by hardcore marxists to destabilize Western society.
It may sound stupid, but it is literally the use of constant, urestrained criticism of normal, inoffensive, foundational constructs of our way of life (the more unreasonable and illogical the criticisms are, the better) to emotionally and psychologically wear down, and eventually cause to scatter in fear, the supporters of those constructs, leaving the now undefended constructs vulnerable and ready to be toppled/finished off by our enemies without a shot having been fired.
Why must authors use so many words to describe this so-called “theory” when its proponents really ought to simply be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail?
End of discussion.
That’s a ‘theory’ where people who never met me get to call me names and I am supposed to accept them!
Has nothing to do with color or races. It's tribalism pure and simple. Tutsi and Hulu killings, darfur, muslim warring tribes etc etc. When opposing tribes don't get along the races don't matter if they are the same or different.
What Frasier said about “savages” in THE GOLDEN BOUGH...
XXVII. Succession to the Soul
With such examples before us we need not hesitate to
believe that many tribes have felt no scruple or delicacy in
observing a custom which tends to wipe out a single family. To
attribute such scruples to them is to commit the common, the
perpetually repeated mistake of judging the savage by the standard
of European civilisation. If any of my readers set out with the
notion that all races of men think and act much in the same way as
educated Englishmen, the evidence of superstitious belief and custom
collected in this work should suffice to disabuse him of so
erroneous a prepossession.
Critical Race Theory:
The result of 60’s brain dead hippies mixing protest musical lyrics with with nonsensical poetry while high on Psilocybin and rediscovering it when they turned 80.
The foundation on which is built the modern Black Entitlement movement - until masochistic, self-flagellating whites wise up and start saying “no” to this nonsense, it’s going to get worse and worse.......
Unfortunately this information is going to be harder and harder to find...
...as the scrubbing of information continues...by those who wish to hide the truth.
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe"
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