What Is Your Opinion Of This Analysis Of Critical Race Theory?

8/15/2021 | Its All Over Except...

[Its All Over Except ...]

One of many definitions for Critical Race Theory is a widely-used one on Google: Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. Remember the "racial justice" part.

The problem is, the methodology that CRT proponents implement to examine things is shoddy at best.

A.) The correct thing is to say "There is racial inequality, or at least racial imbalance, for example, in math scores, so what is the cause?" The racial imbalance is then assigned a (B) but the first step would be to say "Let’s come at this with a variety of hypotheses, test them, and see what is causing it." Cause is then assigned an A.

CRT seems to say instead: "No, there is inequity, therefore racism is the cause" or B to A.

CRT proponents don't see inequality, but rather see inequity, which is different, use about as close to a reverse scientific method as you can get, and assign a predetermined cause - racism.

B.) CRT would say: "There is a serious imbalance in math scores between the races. Racial imbalance is racial discrimination; if racial discrimination exists there can be no racial justice, therefore math is racist." As an example:

Los Angeles Times California's Controversial Math Overhaul Focuses on Equity (one of many news articles talking about how racist math supposedly is).

"It described its goals as calling out systemic racism in mathematics, while helping educators create more inclusive, successful classrooms..."

Another article to read, info there:

Wall Street Journal In California, 2+2=4 May Be Thought Racist

C.) In a recent court decision, judge James C. Ho of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals noted that the city of Los Angeles administered an exam to firefighters to determine who were most qualified for promotion. After the results came in, more white candidates scored highly on it than did black candidates.

When the city saw that, it threw out the results because it feared a disparate-impact lawsuit by black candidates, but by doing that, it discriminated against white candidates.

Ho noted that for some critical race theory proponents, such as Kendi, that sort of “positive” discrimination is an acceptable remedy to historical racial bigotry. But to other people, “it is worse than the disease.”

"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." - Ibrahim X Kendi, Critical Race Theorist

In conclusion:

A teacher has a history of successfully teaching math in a variety of settings over time to various children, moves to another district or state, has a new batch of students, various attempts and stratagems have been employed previously in the area she has moved into to try to teach math to the students, and yet scores for some remain low. In fact, one teacher after another has already been brought in, the schools are well-funded, and still some of the students can't learn the math.

Guess what, hearkening back to A: various explanatory hypotheses (EH) are tried to see if not enough funding or bad teachers are the cause for low math scores. EH's: more funding will lead to better math scores and/or better teachers will lead to better math scores. Eliminating all possibilities as the cause for low math scores given funding is through the roof across the U.S., teachers are said to be better than ever, etc, is it possible that some just can't learn it and that math isn't racist after all?

[Jim Noble]

Please define “racism” and “racist”.

Both of them are made-up words that can mean anything the user wishes.

[Its All Over Except ...]

Yeah... those were some things I also took issue with, but the “racial justice” part at the end of it helped tee things up for me.

[Pollard]

Marxism

[sauropod]

bkmk

[reasonisfaith]

Frankly the principle also applies to the coronavirus problem.

[rktman]

A luxury the revel in. Vaguery and nebulous, meaningless babble.

[reasonisfaith]

I think the reason it hasn’t worked is not enough people have ignored CRT.

Imagine just turning away and going on with our lives.

Goodbye CRT.

[KrisKrinkle]

‘Please define “racism” and “racist”.’

First define “race”, preferably the legal definition.

[TheWriterTX]

My pat response that clears away the neo-marxist distortion cloud:

CRT is the theory that all of society’s ills are to blame because of one group’s genetics. It is Mein Kampf repackaged for the 21st century.

We have already met these people and their evil ideology. We defeated them before, we will do it again.

[Mr. Jeeves]

There was a time good Americans honestly cared about righting past racial wrongs. But after having our hands bitten too many times and seeing only charlatans and collectivists benefit, we are no longer interested.

There is no variant of CRT that will ever be accepted or endorsed by good Americans.

[BitWielder1]

No problem. Happens all the time.
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Nothing happens.
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And now there are two.

[Its All Over Except ...]

At least Cultural Marxism.

[rktman]

Just giving us a chance to retract our comment? 😂🙌

[BitWielder1]

Maybe, but I suspect giving us time to dig in deeper.

[polymuser]

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.

Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915), historical black educator and Presidential advisor

[Noumenon]

CRT is Mein Kampf for blacks.

[libertylover]

academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine

These people have absolutely no interest whatsoever in "examining" anything any more than they want to "have a conservation" about race. They want to use totalitarian government to control every aspect of your life. "Sit down and shut up" is what they want.

[Robert DeLong]

more white candidates scored highly on it than did black candidates.

You need to replace highly with higher.

[_longranger81]

I disagree. Ignoring it is the worst thing we can do. We have to analyze it, understand exactly what it is, and very publicly and repeatedly blow it up over and over again. It thrives on being ignored. That allows them to brainwash all the unthinking idiots who don’t know any better. Especially kids. Especially our kids. That’s why so damn many people are walking around thinking this must be right, because they hear all the “good” people repeating it, and it is all the children know.

[mulligan]

It is pure garbage. And very stupid and evil.