Treat them as eight short essays on specific topics in Critical Race Theory and digest them one at a time. “A third theme of critical race theory, the ‘social construction’ thesis, holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations. This denies the existence of individual altruism, sense of justice, affinities etc. There is the scoial contract and all that went before that concept. Those constructs were designed specifically to put white people in power and occasionally modified (by the bare minimum e.g. CRT upholds a basic truth that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable. Neither of these books is particularly hard to read on the surface, but the conceptual depth hooks relies upon requires familiarity with these lines of thought to be fully comprehensible. I’d think CRT would condemn them as white female “appropriators”, but if race is simply an invented category “that we impose entirely through social assumptions”, then it turns that argument on its head. Barbara Applebaum says all white people have “white complicity” with white supremacy because they automatically benefit from white privilege and “white ignorance” which is a way for them to willfully refuse to engage (and proper engagement can only be proven by agreeing). Critical Race Theory has been growing for over 40 years, and it has many deep problems. The slogan is meant, first and foremost, to address Americans’ feelings about their country more than to make a historical statement. And yes, some marginalized groups haven’t taken much advantage of the good polices in place to level that playing field initiated by liberals (urban young blacks; I know this because I grew up amongst them… nothing but blaming Whitey. When love and hate are both absent These may include critical race theory, critical psychiatry, critical literary theory, etc. I believe one of the main mistakes being made is calling them social justice warriors, snow flakes, liberals, leftists, and especially identifying their politics as identity politics etc.. As mentioned above, I am and have been well aware of “identity politics”. “A Manifesto against the Enemies of Modernity.”, Lindsay, James. They need to know these words have been hijacked and their definitions are not now what we grew up learning them to be. Envy is an ugly emotion. I will say that from my perspective, with the knowledge and information that humanity has, it might be possible to permanently agree to disagree about certain things in society and yet to move on from there in an effort to have a permanent truce. Here, I document just eight of the biggest problems with the entire Critical Race Theory approach. CRT is not “it” for society. Innocent people were accused of being Witches. Make the smallest distinction, however, It differs from traditional theory, which focuses only on understanding or explaining society. Everyone’s politics must agree and must agree with Critical Race Theory. Thus, science is just politics by other means to Critical Race Theory. Campbell, Bradley, and Jason Manning. Shackel provides an engaging and devastating takedown of the entire postmodernist approach to reason and argumentation, showing it not only to be nearly empty of substantive content but also almost wholly reliant upon sophistry and cheap rhetorical tricks that pose as scholarship. All of these ideas implicate racially privileged people in racism anytime they disagree with Critical Race Theory. Where would the thinking/position be of a Norwegian (say) emigrating to the US be if they emigrated today? Charles Mills claims that all whites take part in a “racial contract” to support white supremacy that is never discussed but just part of the social fabric. In this sense, it was instrumental in incorporating intersectional-style thought into feminist legal theory, which up until that point had largely been radical in orientation. An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible. Some of these essays are very insightful into the core thoughts of Critical Race Theory. It is easy to see what kinds of problems these doctrines will create in practice, and it’s horrible how Critical Race Theory consistently preys upon the best parts of our natures to achieve its goals (which, if it were correct (and it’s not), mostly leaves only the worst candidates to oppose it—real white supremacists—which it then uses as evidence of its bogus claims). Lindsay and Pluckrose compare the problems of the postmodern left and the premodern right and argue for those who reject the illiberalism and irrationalism of both to defend the fruits of modernity. Subotnik, Daniel. As for conservation solutions to racism, well… you yourself start off by pointing out the idea fundamental to those solutions: Treat people as individuals and advocate for their rights as citizens. Ultimately when DiAngelo hurts the ability of people to have meaningful and necessary dialogue it’s black people who suffer the socio political consequences most. Yet rather than being willing to understand MAGA as a slogan that encompasses and supports the idea that we should think of America as a great nation that can solve any problem set before it, you are eager to claim that America has never been great, and are happy to support a movement that explicitly and enthusiastically views the United States as the source of the world’s ills and prescribes dismantling all of its most successful institutions and ideals because they are oppressive – even as that movement relies upon those institutions for its own existence. This article (it’s quite long but very well worth the read) was linked somewhere on this website, explaining in depth why the IAT (an allegedly “scientific” tool uncovering unconscious bias/racism in test subjects & usually a part of implicit bias training) does not do what it is advertised to do, and doesn’t even do THAT (whatever “that” is) reliably: “Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job” written by Jesse Singal, available on thecut.com, Your summary is excellent. Here’s what I’ve written and been sharing with multiple news, podcast, and media sites. Certainly, the inability of the stake holders on all sides to separate out criminality from activism has led to chaos. The use of practical, real life examples and accessible language are ideal for beginners in critical race studies, providing them conceptual and empirical anchors to develop multi-scalar investigations for … If you become “anti-racist” you will still always be racist but you accept you are racist, become better at “seeing racism in everything” and are an “ally”. I am a Chinese woman living in Canada. It is often considered a more advanced companion book to Delgado and Stefancic’s other more famous and standard text, Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. Programs & organizations, which inherently promote groupthink, are a large part of the problem. Your socially constructed beliefs are so embedded that when revealed it causes you great discomfort. Again, this is essentially a cult that has been implemented brilliantly by first taking this new racist ideology to Universities and making it mandatory study. My light bulb went off when I watched the James Lindsay video referenced below. It must be grounded in scientific analysis steeped in best practices for desired outcomes. Make America Great is such a misnomer; because when was American truly great for African Americans, women, gays, etc? London and North, writing from a socialist perspective critical of identity politics, criticize the 1619 project and its use of Critical Race Theory in its attempts at historical revisionism. This phenomenon can be explained. Thank you for this fantastic reading material on CRT. Continuing the genuinely racist thinking that black people aren’t suited to or served by science, Delgado and Stefancic say that storytelling about their “lived experience” is the primary mode by which black people and Critical Race Theory produce and advance knowledge. His case is ultimately that Americans and American institutions inadvertently operate on “belief systems” that have been tinged with their racist heritage, which makes this book more clearly in the Critical Race Theory tradition than his later book, How To Be an Antiracist. It’s really difficult to stomach that white people are upholding a system built upon racism, but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge it. Exactly; and it’s because they DON’T have an alternative. There is only “truth”. While you’d be better off reading “Cynical Theories” (from an accessibility standpoint), Ghandi is a bona fide expert in the field. Sullivan, Andrew. Sokal and Bricmont look very specifically at the abuses of science by the original postmodernists and some of their post-structuralist descendants, breaking down its nonsense and arguing for the value of a scientific approach to truth. They are useful for understanding, contextualizing, and knowing how these ideas go badly wrong. Gravity, the laws of physics, etc., are observable and consistent, no matter the identity of the person observing them. The famous “critical whiteness educator” Robin DiAngelo (author of the now overwhelmingly famous book White Fragility) puts it even more plainly, writing with a colleague named Ozlem Sensoy in a widely read education book called Is Everyone Really Equal?, These movements [Critical Theory movements upon which Critical Race Theory is based] initially advocated for a type of liberal humanism (individualism, freedom, and peace) but quickly turned to a rejection of liberal humanism. There was no way to satisfy, in fact “deadly sins” such as anger, lust, greed, and envy, emotions that all animals experience and are therefore unavoidable, are/were considered “sins”. When you open your eyes and look at your coffee and go “this was made by a racist company” there is something wrong with the way you think. As we read from Delgado and Stefancic, Color-blind, or “formal,” conceptions of equality, expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board, can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination, such as mortgage redlining or the refusal to hire a black Ph.D. rather than a white high school dropout, that do stand out and attract our attention. Thus, it is not a theory that aims to equalize society. Excerpts: Intersectionality, from that chapter (Link), and a principled statement about dealing with racism apart from Critical Race Theory (Link). A collective mind is easier to manipulate & control than a group of thousands (or millions) of individuals. For the benefit of your CEO, there is a great piece on this site from just a few days ago entitled “A Template for Resisting White Fragility in the Workplace”. It’s also worth noting that East Asian universities in Japan, China and South Korea likely won’t be adopting such ideologies, and as such, while Asian students of 20th century went to Western universities for science education, the 21st century may see Western students going to universities in Asia or possibly Eastern Europe to receive an education free of the taint of post-modernism. These include the idea that racism barely gets better, if at all, that equality is a source of racism, that people who benefit from “racism” have no incentives to be against racism, that racism is a zero-sum conflict that was arranged by white people so that no one else can have a real chance in society, that the races cannot truly understand one another (while demanding that they must and that racism is the whole cause of the inevitable failure), that racially privileged people are inherently oppressors and everyone else is inherently oppressed (this is derived from Marxism applied to racial groups), and that the only way to end racism is through a social revolution that unmakes the current society entirely and replaces it with something engineered by Critical Race Theory. Translating those observations into social change requires a vast array of lenses/techniques from a myriad of disciplines ranging from Social Psychology, Philosophy, Economics, Marketing, Psychology, History, and on and on and on. The black superstar musician Kanye West famously donned a “Make America Great Again” hat and said he thinks for himself. It’s going to take time as its not a short read. What he wrote above is meant as an introduction, so of course he’s “selective” in what evidence he brings to bear. CRT may not be the answer (though I honestly believe it has some great nuggets), but what is? I would just like to point out that all the people who hated Donald Trump may forget that he put a stop to the teaching of this garbage in the Federal Government. Also. The “Spiegel Beststeller Liste”, our equivalent to the NYT bestseller list, is filled with anecdotal narratives playing out the elements of CRT as listed here to a tee. How is it oppressive for me to be required to show it when I vote? Its a scary time to be 45yo white western male, will I be in the lowest caste in this new narrative ?? Where liberalism spent centuries removing social significance from racial categories once it had been introduced in the 16th century, Critical Race Theory inserts it again, front and center. In my opinion, this piece is really poorly written and argued. I think that you have a natural and easy to recruit group of supporters among the right in America, particularly Republicans and especially Trump supporters. Then, even more cynically, they insist that we must ask whose interests are served by science, as though that’s the relevant question to ask of a universalist method. Your comment seems very anti-capitalist. But his insistence that CRT is 100% bad and has resulted in absolutely ZERO good undercuts his own points about moderation and liberality. By giving people no way out, Critical Race Theory becomes deeply manipulative and unable to be satisfied in its lists of demands. These ideas originated in the academic literature in the 1980s and 1990s and, until quite recently, seemed to have little impact. So what is your solution? This is a particularly dense and meandering read, but it’s worthwhile if you want an overview of the current academic debates in Critical Race Theory and intersectionality. He also does not see racism as intrinsic to one’s race but instead in terms of outcomes produced. The first part about believing racism is everywhere, anyone who attended high school should see the horrifying dangers of that first part. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody. But, since you are determined to find racism everywhere, you must analyze the cake and discover how the cake is actually racist. That “Systemic Racism” extends to and includes all of American/Western language, science, medicine, literature, legal system, and institutions etc.. Again, all were purposely designed with an underlying motive to keep white people in power. I will start by pointing out how interesting it is that you take great care to note that “liberal” perspectives and prescriptions are not homogenous, but are more than happy to begin and end your statement by attributing broad generalizations of “conservative” ideas (or the lack thereof) to all members of that group. Lindsay looks at the ways in which postmodern ideas incorporated into Social Justice scholarship and activism fulfill many of the same psychological and social needs as religion and establishes a similar form of doctrine. Crenshaw, Kimberlé. I knew Critical Race Theory was bad, but didn’t know the exacts about just how bad it was. ), it’s dangerous. When its advocates accuse people of being “complicit in systems of racism,” this is part of what they mean. “Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements.”, Pluckrose, Helen, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian. These rules are high in the pyramid of thought than the truths regarding the races and the individuals, but truly the two are actually intertwined. Critical Theory in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. Awesome all around. CRT is America’s present-day Lenin and Stalin. Since this is so long: here’s the ‘too long; didn’t read’ bullet-point summary: Critical Race Theory begins from the assumption that racism is an ordinary part of every aspect of life in our societies. Those goals had a whole lot to do with developing a new way of doing things. What was once steeped in the meta narratives of struggle via Marxism with —- informed praxis being at the forefront —- has descended in the last 40 years into the purely ethereal steeped in ideological observation as being equal to or even better than social scientific inquiry conducted with as much rigor as possible. I look forward to writing another post with my views of the rest when I have the time. Essentially,the idea that society is systemically racist because it is built on the ideologies and discourses of Whiteness. 2013. The reason for the “massive replication problem in psychology, etc. While America has never really accomplished any of the goals and objectives laid our by the people known as our Founding Father, we have, “practiced at it.” Along the way, we continued our war of Independence as second time and then had a series of wars including the Civil War and all that the Civil War meant. The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed. If I may suggest one thing, I would make it a little more explicitly obvious that CRT – even though taught in universities – is openly anti-science, and that their favorite tool doesn’t hold up to scientific scrutiny. No matter how much you give to it, it cannot be filled and only gets stronger—and it will tear apart anything that gets too close to it. Therefore, there are many good reasons that have nothing to do with real racism to reject most of what Critical Race Theory teaches. Articulation theory is a cultural studies theory and methodology that aims to account for the powerful material consequences of the ideas, principles, and beliefs that make up ideologies. The central thesis of this book, captured both in the title and in the opening salvo, is that no matter what developments take place in American society, even the poorest white (trash) people will still be able to look down upon black people, who they see as below them and at the “bottom of the well.” He wrote this in 1992 when, for example, almost every white kid in America was looking up to (not down at) Michael Jordan as a hero and buying all of his expensive merchandise while Michael Jackson was still recognized as the King of Pop and Will Smith’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was one of the most popular television shows for the American youth. It includes a chapter specifically on Critical Race Theory. The other seminal work on this subject is “Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination” which is to be found in the book Black Feminist Thought in the next section or as a PDF here (more on this source, which is more advanced, below). 1998. Dummies helps everyone be more knowledgeable and confident in applying what they know. She specifically points out the anti-intellectualism of the “primacy of experience,” what is today call “lived experience,” and also discusses the proliferation of activism among scholars race, gender, and postcolonial scholars. Idaho’s state Senate has banned the critical race doctrine in schools as Republican lawmakers claim its teachings to be ‘undecided’ students. If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was written by a racist. They aren’t. Possibly the most important book on this list, Jonathan Rauch defends “liberal science”—the knowledge production and conflict management system based upon freedom of speech and the marketplace of ideas—as a way to determine what is true and what is morally right. Hehe.). Conservatives just want to discredit anything that a “liberal” has come up with to solve for racism/systemic issues. Here is the problem with your view. Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge. 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