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    Re: Video: Why is Critical Race Theory? 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on November 7, 2021, 4:47 pm, in reply to "Video: Why is Critical Race Theory?"

    Looks interesting and I've bookmarked it for a watch later. Thanks.

    I think the right use CRT as shorthand for anything that doesn't declare white people the greatest thing since sliced (white) bread. Anything that tells the truth about empire, opression, capitalism or smacks in any way of social justice.....Critical Race Theory/Cultural Marxism.

    I think it's also replaced the "Southern Strategy" for republicans and it seems it worked very well in the recent VA elections. Now the War or Crime has had such a bad press, and has impacted a lot of the communities they were trying to influence with it, they need a new coded racist dog whistle and this seems to be it.

    I read Delgado's "(CRT)..an Introduction" earlier this year and some of it makes sense, some of it goes over my head but in either case after a couple of chapters my eyes start glazing over. The idea that they are teaching this to 14 year old British kids is insane (I mean it's clearly false that it is being taught to secondary school kids, not that it is mad to think of teaching it to them). The tories have been copying some of the US right's culture war tropes for a while now but I'm not sure the British public responds to it as well as the target audience in the US.

    People tend to forget the quite specific area that CRT (the basic CRT) operates in: the US LEGAL system. People always say "Of course the US justice system isn't racist" but then you look at the current Rittenhouse and (killers of) Ahmaud Arbery trials and it stares you in the face. That's not to say there are not plenty of critiques of CRT to be had, and a lot of them from the left. I definitely don't agree with the "the only way is to bring back segregation" argument that has developed in some camps.

    Anyway, should be a good watch. Thanks.

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