Critical Race Theory (CRT) for dummies
For all you self proclaimed CRT scholars, this isn't for you. I've studied CRT for about 5 years now, I have spoken to fans of CRT and debated them. I am not a scholar, which is why the title is what it is. It's not for academics, neither is it completely dumbed down. It is simply my opinion on what I believe to be a very blinkered approach to life and not just to education.
As "woke" culture continues to gather steam like a runaway train on steroids. I have to ask myself when (or if) It will ever slow down
I hate identity politics, putting people in little boxes will only conflate to division, resentment and eventually outright hatred.
Now I've read Critical Race Theory: The key writings that formed the movement, all 528 pages of it. It's a bunch of poorly reasoned essays fighting as best it can to find racism : Theories that will never achieve the end goal it so desires. In fact, the exact opposite is true. To be fair however, the end goal they try to peddle via the main stream media paints a very different picture to the Marxist idea's behind them and the real end goal they're at pains to hide from your average consumer. Which would be communism
Marxism in it's original form was based on economics and class (Rich dominating poor)
But is easily adaptable for other uses. Feminism - Sex (men dominating women)
And another form. Critical Race Theory - Colour (whites dominating blacks)
Marxism is a very useful cloak to wear, it has proved devastatingly effective in the past. So it's an obviously useful tool outside of it's original remit
In Britain, racism, unlike The USA is very much born out of ignorance and fear among the poor and working class white people. before the 1950's Britain barely had a minority population at all. Immigration didn't impact the social elite. Immigrants were placed in area's where it was cheapest (what a radical idea) and that's where the working class white people lived. If you move 300 families of a different culture, skin tone or in many cases language, there will be clashes, oftentimes very violent and very ugly.
Welcome to poverty.
Poverty knows no race/religion/sex. we didn't throw open our borders to a land of milk and honey. It was a land steeped in class. Anyone arriving on these shores quickly discovered they were very much on the bottom rung. But where would you like them to start? Many immigrants who also arrived knuckled down, worked hard and were quickly able to establish themselves lives far away from the sink estates of England, in short, they flourished.
So while Britain does have a history of race relation problems, things have improved. I visited Birmingham a few years ago with a friend. We both looked on enviously at the sheer amount of absolutely stunning mixed raced women there were going about their business. The amount of public houses full of people of all races just enjoying themselves over a pint or 2. I've travelled this country a lot. I could cite hundreds of personal experience, but that would be boring so I won't
I see racism in Britain like a huge swinging pendulum. At times it can be outright nasty. Like our politics, at the extremes there lies danger. Go too far right, and you find Facism and Nazism, too far left and there lies communism. It's a lot more complicated than that I know, but as with Occam's Razor (not really an accurate theory to apply in this instance) It can help things if you just remove as many entities as possible, you should conclude that what is left is correct.
So getting back to the pendulum. Most important to note that the pendulum is slowing down, That can be accurately observed by looking at how well extreme ends of the pendulum are viewed in British politics. from Mosley's fascists in the 30's right through to UKIP in the 90's representing the extreme right of the pendulum. And, well pretty much anything containing the word "Communist" or "Marxist" On the left swing. But it's important to note that any radical political party that gains any ounce of political traction does represent a lower deviation of that swing. Even the 2 main political parties of Tory and Labour are often maligned for not having enough extremism as they believe them lurching more towards the centre and in many cases sharing exactly the same principles.
I know, this is supposed to be about CRT (don't worry I'm getting to that)
Race relations have improved. Britons aren't as stupid as you might think. As the pendulum slows and people begin to actually enjoy living in a multicultural country, along comes CRT, BlackLivesMatter & Antifa.
This is a wildly disruptive swing to the left affecting mostly the USA but the people behind those movements are trying to import it into this country. It's subtle, I mean, who could argue that black lives don't matter? Who could argue that Fascism is good? The reason Antifa hasn't gained any meaningful traction in Britain is because Fascism itself has never gained any meaningful support.
While Black Lives Matter is very much a political (often violent) movement from the hard left and Antifa represents another violent wing from the left, where does CRT sit?
CRT is the educational wing. But it's not education as any rational, sane minded person would see it. It's based simply on skin colour and white privilege.
White Skin = oppressor = white privilege = white supremacy
Black Skin = Oppressed
It's an extremist concept, even worse when you consider that there is no endgame here other than revolution, It can't be anything else. If society is so biased toward white privilege then the only way to fix that is by completely dismantling our democracy and starting again. CRT isn't just a theory that maybe we should teach more of the seedier side of our history warts an all. It's that we should be completely and utterly ashamed of it with zero chance of redemption and that the only history that matters is how bad having white skin is and always will be.
It's a framework of theories, but theory designed to be viewed through the very myopic lens of racism. Everything (and I do mean literally Every. Single, Thing) is to be viewed through this very narrow lens
As a comparison, look at modern feminism. Feminists complain that everything in society is built by men and for men, or in other words "patriarchy" you can see how well that's going by looking at the current transgender issue. Feminists are going through the process of eating themselves alive, yet they still can't let go of the dogma of their belief in the mythical patriarchy and blame men (well, some of them do)
The mental gymnastics needed to come to this conclusion, must be applauded. I know I shouldn't laugh, but it is pretty funny
But back to CRT
In order to teach CRT properly to schoolchildren, it has to be subtle. CRT crept into the education system via academic papers, young children wouldn't understand the theory so to get round this, they'll use CRT praxis, a dumbed down version in easy bitesize chunks. This isn't teaching kids about the horror of slavery/racism, history will be taught ONLY through the myopic lens of CRT, so they play hide the ball.
The above image gives you an idea of how CRT works, overlapping idea's as you can see with it's many many crossover spheres. One of the founding ideologues of CRT, Kimberle Crenshaw came up with another term for that
"Intersectionality" An idea that I won't go into in too much detail, but essentially it put's everyone into groups, obviously some of them overlap (say for instance, same religion but different skin colour) Then you get to compete in the oppression Olympics, the more oppressed you are, the more society should lift you up. It sounds OK doesn't it? But as with all idea's attempting to combat discrimination, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. I'll cover that some other time, but the story always ends badly, horrifyingly badly!
Anyway.
The image is slightly misleading with claims of "CRT is being taught in schools/CRT is not being taught in schools" You don't actually "teach" CRT, you apply CRT in everything you teach
It would be like teaching kids about the British Empire as something that only done wonderful things, transforming people's lives immeasurably. It never hurt anyone and everywhere it touched, people's lives became awesome.
Now, we know that's clearly not true. So why would we teach school children about racism and the slave trade through a similarly narrow lens? Obvious answer, we shouldn't
Remember, CRT comes from the extreme left. Extreme is where you find danger. Which is why champions of CRT are both Black & White.
Blacks like Shola Mos-Shagbamimu gleefully take up the banner of the oppressed. And whites like Robin DiAngelo will self flagellate herself on the alter of white privilege, one has to wonder why they champion such opinion.
Well the answer to that is pretty easy. Money. without their CRT indoctrination DiAngelo would still be a fairly unknown writer and shouty shola wouldn't have anything like the exposure she would have in the British media if her views were less radical.
Or just check out how wealthy one of BLM's founders Patrisse Cullors has become since that movement started.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/
You only have to look at Shola's Twitter feed to see CRT thought process in full unregulated flow
She will only ever tweet something she see's as injustice against blacks, which will rile up her black sycophants and completely ignore anything that makes her beloved black community look bad, which white people will constantly call her out for. she embarrasses herself constantly, but she doesn't care about that, she just moves onto the next grift.
So how would CRT look in Britain today. Luckily for us we already have the evidence as to how that will play out by looking across the Atlantic to the Good old USA
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