What is critical race theory?

[gabosaurus]

I have seen this topic explained many different ways (often incorrectly), but this may be clearest. -----------------------> https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/06/23/what-is-critical-race-theory-behind-the-concept-that-republican-lawmakers-want-to-abolish/

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I have seen this topic explained many different ways (often incorrectly), but this may be clearest. -----------------------> https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/06/23/what-is-critical-race-theory-behind-the-concept-that-republican-lawmakers-want-to-abolish/

Ok, let me give it a try....

CRT

C-ause
R-eal
T-rouble

= A made up pile of bullshit, designed to cause further conflict, trouble, division, hatred, violence ,etc..

Conveniently used by the dem party for its own self-serving goals and racial strife agenda --to keep
its solid voting block firmly in its pocket.

You can thank me later my friend.. Anytime...-Tyr

[icansayit]

SHORT AND SWEET....She has been told, with the rest of her class that being different, such as being white around other black children teaches THEM that they are not to treat each other equally, and that being friends with anyone of a different color...according to the person (she would not name) is not to be trusted because it is secretly racially driven, and should not be taken seriously.

In other words. Children are being taught...TO HATE anyone who doesn't look like them..PUTTING IT SIMPLY.

They have also been told...but not directly. That White students THINK they are superior to everyone else.

WE ALL KNOW...THAT'S A BUNCH OF BS, LIES, AND THE WAY TO CREATE MORE HATRED while blaming others for all of the misfortune, or BAD LUCK (they have been told they have).

CRT is nothing but RACIST all the way. I call it COMMUNIST, MARXIST and TREASONOUS.

[Gunny]

Just another fabrication from the disruptive and divisive powers that be to keep the masses divided and their attention anywhere but on those that stand to gain by it. Everything is based on this fabricated "white supremicy ". Fact is there is less racism in this country than any other I have lived in and it is at the individual level.

The only systemic racism I see is against whites because it behooves the left to disenfranchise the majority. We can't use our natural resources because of them. We can't and won't be a nation of people with a common goal for comm9n good until someone shines a light on these morons and the people look past their noses to see them for what they are.

Pure regression back to the stone age. Anyone not of my tribe is the enemy. CRT knowingly teaches a lie which to me is worse than actual racism based on ignorance.

The real racism is pushing this shit to the point of whites, 70% of the population, are afraid to say anything.

From another POV, we are the laughing stock of the World, especially to our enemies. All caught up in our petty, contrived bullshit while they're going about the usual business of World conquest.

Truly "woke" people would rebel against this shit and oust all these amoral fuckups and their money. In the meantime, the education system is being used by them to dumd down and brainwash the sheeple because stupid people.are easily controlled. Just like mostly whites are allowing to be done to them now.

[fj1200]

I have seen this topic explained many different ways (often incorrectly), but this may be clearest. -----------------------> https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/06/23/what-is-critical-race-theory-behind-the-concept-that-republican-lawmakers-want-to-abolish/

The egghead explanation is like most other 50 year-old, ivy-league theories and is based on out-dated information by people with to much time on their hands trying to justify salaries and tenure. The fact that it hasn't been updated for modern day isn't really surprising because it helps to avoid the real issues and failures by those who do not live in the real world.


Critical theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory) (also capitalized as Critical Theory)[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-1) is an approach to social philosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_philosophy) that focuses on reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge power structures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_structure). With origins in sociology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology) and literary criticism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism), it argues that social problems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_problems) are influenced and created more by societal structures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure) and cultural assumptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assumptions) than by individual and psychological factors. Maintaining that ideology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology) is the principal obstacle to human liberation,[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-2) critical theory was established as a school of thought (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_thought) primarily by the Frankfurt School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School) theoreticians Herbert Marcuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse), Theodor Adorno (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno), Walter Benjamin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin), Erich Fromm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Fromm), and Max Horkheimer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer). Horkheimer described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation) human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-3)In sociology and political philosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy), "Critical Theory" means the Western-Marxist philosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism) of the Frankfurt School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School), developed in Germany in the 1930s and drawing on the ideas of Karl Marx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx) and Sigmund Freud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud). Though a "critical theory" or a "critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, capitalizing Critical Theory as if it were a proper noun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_noun) stresses the intellectual lineage specific to the Frankfurt School.
Modern critical theory has also been influenced by György Lukács (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs) and Antonio Gramsci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci), as well as second-generation Frankfurt School scholars, notably Jürgen Habermas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas). In Habermas's work, critical theory transcended its theoretical roots in German idealism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_idealism) and progressed closer to American pragmatism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism). Concern for social "base and superstructure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure)" is one of the remaining Marxist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_philosophy) philosophical concepts in much contemporary critical theory.[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-Outhwaite,_William_1988._pp._5-8-4):5–8
Postmodern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern) critical theory analyzes the fragmentation of cultural identities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_identity) in order to challenge modernist-era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism) constructs such as metanarratives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative), rationality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality), and universal truths, while politicizing social problems "by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings."[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#cite_note-LINDTAYLOR-5)


Critical race theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory) (CRT) is an academic movement of civil-rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights) scholars and activists in the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) who seek to critically examine the law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States) as it intersects with issues of race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States) and to challenge mainstream liberal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States) approaches to racial justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_justice).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Ansell_2008-1) Critical race theory examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States).[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYosso200570%E2%80%9371-2)[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gordon_1999-3)Critical race theory originated in the mid-1970s in the writings of several American legal scholars, including Derrick Bell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell), Alan Freeman, Kimberlé Crenshaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Crenshaw), Richard Delgado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delgado), Cheryl Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Harris), Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari Matsuda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Matsuda), and Patricia J. Williams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_J._Williams).[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Ansell_2008-1) It emerged as a movement by the 1980s, reworking theories of critical legal studies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_legal_studies) (CLS) with more focus on race.[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-FOOTNOTECole2007112%E2%80%93113-4) Both critical race theory and critical legal studies are rooted in Critical Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Theory), an approach to social theory established by members of the Frankfurt School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School), which argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure) and cultural assumptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assumptions) than by individual and psychological factors.[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-5)
Critical race theory sees racism as systemic and institutional, rather than just a collection of individual prejudices.[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6)[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Iati-7) It also views race as a socially constructed identity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism)[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6) which serves to oppress non-white people.[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Britannica-8) The theory emphasizes how racism and disparate racial outcomes can be the result of complex, changing and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices by individuals.[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6) In the field of legal studies, critical race theory emphasizes that merely making laws colorblind on paper may not be enough to make the application of the laws colorblind; ostensibly colorblind laws can be applied in racially discriminatory ways. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color)[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Crenshaw_2019-9) Intersectionality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality) – which emphasizes that race can intersect with other identities (such as gender and class) to produce complex combinations of power and disadvantage – is a key concept in critical race theory.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2021-10)
Academic critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Farber_&_Sherry_1997-11)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Posner-12)[13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPyle1999789,_793%E2%80%93795,_802%E2%80%93 803-13) Since 2020, conservative lawmakers in the United States have sought to ban or restrict critical race theory instruction along with other anti-racism programs.[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Iati-7)[14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Wallace-Wells-14) Critics of these efforts say the lawmakers have poorly defined or misrepresented the tenets and importance of critical race theory and that the goal of the laws is to silence broader discussions of racism, equality, social justice, and the history of race.[15] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Bump-15)[16] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Harris,_Adam-16)[17] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-17)

[tailfins]

I have seen this topic explained many different ways (often incorrectly), but this may be clearest. -----------------------> https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/06/23/what-is-critical-race-theory-behind-the-concept-that-republican-lawmakers-want-to-abolish/

Critical Race Theory is the racial component of Marxism. It sounds nearly identical to Fidel Castro's indoctrination about race. Look for and listen to some of his speeches on the topic and you will see that the vocabulary and premises are the same as Fidel Castro.

[darin]

Tucker Carlson when addressing some CRT bullshit put it this way, and it's spot-on.

"This is really sick and it's a complete dead-end that will tank the country if we allow it to continue. Everyone is created equal in the eyes of God and if you don't act that way and judge people not based on who they are, what they do, and the choices they make but instead judge them on the color of their skin, it's over."

[jimnyc]

What is it? I just call it garbage.

[Gunny]

Apply CRT to all minorities/weirdass special interest twits and what does it look like?

To me, it's still a duck.

[darin]

https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-critical-race-theory/


Critical Race Theory holds that the most important thing about you is your race. The color of your skin. That's who you are. Not your behavior. Not your values. Not your environment. Your race. In Critical Race Theory, if you are a member of a "minoritized" racial group—their term, not mine—you are a victim of a system that is rigged against you, a system that doesn't want you to succeed. On the other hand, if your race is "privileged," you're an exploiter—whether you intend to be or not.