Posted on 05/06/2021 10:28:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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. This must change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.
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Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s and built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions over the past decade. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher-training programs and corporate human-resources departments in the form of diversity-training programs, human-resources modules, public-policy frameworks and school curricula.
Its supporters deploy a series of euphemisms to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds nonthreatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, critical race theorists explicitly reject equality — the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy and oppression.
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And it is NOT something that can be called **scholarly** in any sense of the word.
We’ve got a few stupid, annoying “karens” in our suburb pushing the school district to institute “diversity training” and “racial awareness training” at the local schools.
When criticized their reply is a devious and deceitful - “its simply about people being more aware. what’s wrong with more awareness?”
CRT is virtually a declaration of war.
With CRT theory, inter-sectionality and the 1619 Project, the other party has returned to its position in the Dred Scot decision. In that decision, the Supreme Court decided that persons of African descent could never be citizens of the United States and that the words in the founding documents of this country - such as “that all men are created equal” - refer to “all white Northern European males,” dividing people forever by race and gender.
Our position as Republicans should be today, as it was then, no, not at all. The Dred Scot decision was wrong. It overturned the plain meaning of the founding documents; the practice of the country showing slavery and race separation to be contradictions of, rather than indicative of the ideals upon which this country was founded; and, even overturned Supreme Court and lower court precedents.
Abraham Lincoln laid this argument out in his Cooper Union speech, preliminary to his campaign for President. Any Republican wavering on this should watch Sam Waterston’s reenactment of that speech. I realize it is long. I can help a little by cutting out the preliminaries, and having you jump in at the 16:30 mark of the following youtube video. This is real history, albeit a reenactment. Not the propaganda fabricated by the other party. Many Americans, including Lincoln, gave their lives to address the underlying issues of slavery and equality. We should honor their sacrifice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2De8VcSLw
As Lincoln put it in his Gettysburg Address, we should dedicate ourselves to bring about “a new birth of freedom.” And, as another great Republican Martin Luther King, who also gave his life in the cause of equality, put it, we should “redeem the promise” of our nation.
In Jefferson’s day, before Charles Darwin’s The Origins of Species, our best source of knowledge of human origins was the Bible. According to that source, we humans, all of us, are of recent origin, all descendants of the same parents. Certain differences among us, e.g., skin color, are due to the dispersion of the human race following the Flood. One son of Noah and his wife going one way, a second and his going that way, and a third and his going yet another. So, we are all cousins of each other, even though recognizable groups of us have some differences. Furthermore, from the moral teachings of the Bible, we are all the same in that we are all sinners. There are none of us who are good and we are all in need of redemption. We, each of us, are the reason God had to send a redeemer into the world to suffer and die; and, each of us, no matter how despicable, is called to join with Christ on the cross and to join with him in the resurrection.
Following Darwin, it could be argued that “race” was reflective of a long period of evolution. And, perhaps, that some of us were less evolved. Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, a renowned polymath, took Darwin’s idea one step further. Galton is recognized as the father of eugenics. He is associated with the idea that the population should be controlled by regulating reproduction. In such a manner, the sickly, the slow, and the criminally-oriented could be eliminated from human kind. Over the next century, progressives built on the agenda of population control. Inferior people were to be separated from the general population, placed in labor colonies where they would work and be taken of, and - above all else! - be prevented from reproducing. With the Nazi experiience, of race-based genocide, we were sobered up from the agenda of population control.
But, as the horror of the Nazi experience recedes into history, the population control agenda makes a come back, along with racism (now under the guise of CRT), and the idea of labor colonies (re-packaged as a universal basic income along with video games and recreational marijuana). It all comes together, doesn’t it? Why we conservatives are pro-life, pro-family, pro-work, pro-saving, pro-equality, pro-freedom and pro-religion; and they, the progressives, aren’t really anti-God, but proclaim themselves to be God. They are not merely atheists. They are blasphemers.
I would like to close with the scientific evidence concerning evolution. The current theory of the origin of life is that the building blocks of life, if not life itself, came to this planet from outer space, the conditions of the early planet being so adverse to the emergence of life that it would have taken a miracle for life to get started here. Also, that life in its great diversity is characterized by punctuated equilibrium, that “macroevolution,” when it occurs, occurs in spurts as of yet not understood by science. That the human race is of relatively recent origin, perhaps 50,000 to 200,000 years ago. And, that the observable differences in identifiable groups of us are due to natural selection (”microevolution”) following our dispersion. To me, this can all be reconciled with what the Bible teaches; and, this confluence of what we know through natural revelation and what we know through special revelation, gives us reason to believe in the moral teachings of the Bible. So, in response to CRT, I will say:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Roman 3:23
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches. But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD. Jeremiah 9:23
It’s about control. Total control.
Ask them if it’s also ok to make kids aware of the founding principles of the USA? Aware of the Constitution?
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CRT seems to be hatred of Christianity, the Constitution, and capitalism.
It’s about blacks being the MASCOTS of the left, just as they have been since the 1930s.
This is a really good, straightforward explanation.
Still crt should be exposed rather than censured. The free exchange of ideas makes us stronger.
1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Peter Wood can be a good starting point.
CRT already has reached nearly total control of all of our institutions (including the military), and has done so almost without any public notice or even identification until now. The currents of “PC” thought have been moving through our society for years, quietly suppressing ideas that the left didn’t like and pushing inconvenient resistance out of the way, mostly through the tools of ridicule and invective.
But with CRT we finally have a name for it, and in a way, this is an advantage. It is, as the author says, Marxism using race or identity rather than class (although ultimately the two coincide) as its tool for gaining control, and it has defined principles, strategies and objectives. This is actually a good thing, because it is finally something more substantial and identifiable than the elusive Political Correctness (PC), which constantly shifted and didn’t appear to have any clear leaders who could be addressed.
The bad thing, of course, is that it is already firmly established and in control of most of our society. Even though we have a name for it now and know its leaders, I think it may be too late to mount any effective opposition. The 2020 elections gave the Dems, the party of CRT, official and full control of the Federal Government and they are busy using it. The decades of “soft” PC undermining of our American principles have paid off and now the power apparatus has simply rolled into place.
I think the biggest problem we have is that the left, as expressed in CRT, has completed its “long march through the institutions,” and unfortunately one of those institutions has been the churches, almost all of them. Most of the mainline Protestant churches and a significant percentage of the Catholic Church are all onboard with it.
You really should read “signature in the Cell”.
CRT is not about any of those.
CRT is as simple, and as momentous, as the geocentric theory of the cosmos that was overturned by Copernicus.
CRT is a grand unified theory that explains the reality of why things are so terrible 57 years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress. It's a false theory, of course, and it will eventually collapse, but perhaps not until it has ended the American experiment.
"Our position as Republicans should be today, as it was then, no, not at all.
The Dred Scot decision was wrong.
It overturned the plain meaning of the founding documents; the practice of the country showing slavery and race separation to be contradictions of, rather than indicative of the ideals upon which this country was founded; and, even overturned Supreme Court and lower court precedents."
Well said, great post, I recommend reading all of it.
Unlike Critical Theory, CRT pursues a solution. It is to tear down whites and white structure, but doesn't replace it with anything.
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