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To: Jayster

This professor was into Critical Race Theory.

From Wikipedia:

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have documented the following major themes as characteristic of work in critical race theory:

A critique of liberalism: CRT scholars favor a more aggressive approach to social transformation as opposed to liberalism’s more cautious approach, favor a race conscious approach to transformation rather than liberalism’s embrace of color blindness, and favor an approach that relies more on political organizing, in contrast to liberalism’s reliance on rights-based remedies.
Storytelling/counterstorytelling and “naming one’s own reality”—using narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression.
Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress—criticizing civil rights scholarship and anti-discrimination law.
Applying insights from social science writing on race and racism to legal problems.
Structural determinism, or how “the structure of legal thought or culture influences its content.”
The intersections of race, sex, and class—e.g., how poor Latinas’ experience of domestic violence needs distinctive remedies.
Essentialism and anti-essentialism—reducing the experience of a category (like gender or race) to the experience of one sub-group (like white women or African-Americans).
Cultural nationalism/separatism, Black nationalism—exploring more radical views arguing for separation and reparations as a form of foreign aid.
Legal institutions, critical pedagogy, and minority lawyers in the bar.

As a movement that draws heavily from critical theory, critical race theory shares many intellectual commitments with CLS and critical theory, feminist jurisprudence, and postcolonial theory.

Recent developments in critical race theory include work relying on updated social psychology research on unconscious bias, to justify affirmative action; and work relying on law and economics methodology to examine Structural Inequality and discrimination in the workplace.[4]


15 posted on 03/07/2012 11:21:34 AM PST by Yaelle (Santorums 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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To: All

Well, first of all, definitely Obama favors a more aggressive approach to social transformation than liberalism!!! Ha ha ha, liberals — he really IS a commie.

He doesn’t want RIGHTS-BASED remedies. RIGHTS-BASED = human rights based on Gd. SEE??? He wants remedies that are RACE BASED. It doesn’t matter that all people have these rights. This “theology” (Thank you, Rick Santorum!) only cares about blacks!

How do you even define a “black?” One drop of blood, like 19th century racists? Are people with 1 grandparent “good” enough to get these race-based rights??

Liberals can’t defend this guy any more.


19 posted on 03/07/2012 11:25:47 AM PST by Yaelle (Santorums 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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To: Yaelle

(Still going through these tenets as listed by wikipedia in post 15)

Storytelling and naming one’s own reality??

YOU CAN”T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

Um, rather, YOU CAN! LOL.

He made up his own past. With a little help from his friends.


21 posted on 03/07/2012 11:27:43 AM PST by Yaelle (Santorums 2012 - we need a STEADY conservative President)
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