How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory

OK, do YOU agree or disagree.

 

So you are opposed to a color blind society. Could you source that Rufo opposes a color blind society? I don't know who Chris is.

 

CRT explicitly rejects a color blind society. How can it be an "invaluable tool" to achieving it?

 

Your calling of "bullshit" seems irrelevant to me.

 

Sorry, but your red herring cannot deflect the discussion. The reactionary nature of CRT was first pointed out by close collaborators of MLK, and needs nothing else to be understood for the retrograde movement that it is.

 

Naturally, because you think Black people need White people to tell them what to think.

 

I'm indifferent to Rufo because he's not important in understanding the pernicious nature of CRT.

 

And this relates to Critical Legal Systems how? To Critical Race Theory how?

 

I'm sure you can demonstrate how CRT rejects a colorblind society?

 

Fake news. The Left thinks they can just cram this racist nonsense down the throats of minor children, whether the parents and community agree with it or not. This IS a Free Country. We are not dictated to by foolish authoritarians in the grips of madness.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: New Hampshire delivers a double victory for school choice.

Tired of the radical teachers unions trying to force feed your children this racial filth? You have the power to protect them.

 

Rufo is important because he and Tucker Carlson created the 'pernicious' nature of CRT, a benign legal theory utilized by civil rights attorneys.

 

Sorry, but that's simply false.

". . . One can understand why Critical Race Theory’s proponents would seek to link it to the civil rights movement, which properly enjoys a hallowed status in American history—and which yielded some of the most revered and intensely studied Supreme Court judgments on law-school curricula. But this line of argument, however rhetorically attractive, is logically incorrect: Critical Race Theory (often abbreviated as CRT) explicitly undermines the intellectual and moral foundations of color-blind American liberalism. . . .
King was assassinated in 1968. But some of his contemporaries lived long enough to see the way that his ideas were mangled. The Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker (1928-201, a leading civil rights activist, and one of King’s closest confidants, spoke out against Critical Race Theory in 2015, years before CRT went mainstream in schools and bestselling books. “Today, too many ‘remedies’—such as Critical Race Theory, the increasingly fashionable post-Marxist/postmodernist approach that analyzes society as institutional group power structures rather than on a spiritual or one-to-one human level—are taking us in the wrong direction,” he wrote in a co-authored article. “[These ideas] separat[e] even elementary school children into explicit racial groups, and emphasizing differences instead of similarities.”. . . ."

No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
Published by Kenny Xu and Christian Watson

 

The truth often is.

 

Piling bull **** on bull **** by defining CRT to fit the right wing narrative that turns CRT's goal on its head remains as unconvincing as it was the day Rufo decided it needed to be politicized to serve the purposes of conservative politicians.

 

You seemed reasonable right up to "the increasingly fashionable post-Marxist/postmodernist" crap. Jingoism just doesn't fly!

 

You are on the wrong side of history.
Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker's Biography - The HistoryMakers
https://www.thehistorymakers.org › biography › revere...

Pastor and civil rights activist Wyatt Tee Walker, also known as “The Harlem Preacher,” was born on August 16, 1928 in Brockton, Massachusetts to John Wise ...

 

That was Reverend Walker's phrase. It has nothing to do with jingoism in any case.
Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker's Biography - The HistoryMakers
https://www.thehistorymakers.org › biography › revere...

Pastor and civil rights activist Wyatt Tee Walker, also known as “The Harlem Preacher,” was born on August 16, 1928 in Brockton, Massachusetts to John Wise ...

 

Since you've already rejected Colorblindness Do you have proof it doesn't? I'm not sure why you need more info, but here you go:


Question: Does Critical Race Theory advance the vision and activism of the Civil Rights Movement?

Critical Race Theory refers to that vision as “traditional approaches to civil rights” and calls it into question. The Civil Rights Movement called for living up to the foundational promises of the United States (and other free nations) and incrementally changing the system so that those original ideals were met. Critical Race Theory rejects incrementalism in favor of revolution. It rejects the existing system and demands replacing it with its own. It rejects the liberal order and all that goes with it as being part of the system which must be dismantled and replaced. It is therefore fundamentally different than the Civil Rights Movement (and is explicitly anti-liberal and anti-equality).

Examples:

“Crits are also highly suspicious of another liberal mainstay, namely, rights.” From Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, first edition, p. 23.

“Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.” From Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, first edition, p. 3.

“We all can recognize the distinction between the claims “I am Black” and the claim “I am a person who happens to be Black.” “I am Black” takes the socially imposed identity and empowers it as an anchor of subjectivity. “I am Black” becomes not simply a statement of resistance but also a positive discourse of self-identification, intimately linked to celebratory statements like the Black nationalist “Black is beautiful.” “I am a person who happens to be Black,” on the other hand, achieves self-identification by straining for a certain universality (in effect, “I am first a person”) and for a concommitant dismissal of the imposed category (“Black”) as contingent, circumstantial, nondeterminant. There is truth in both characterizations, of course, but they function quite differently depending on the political context. At this point in history, a strong case can be made that the most critical resistance strategy for disempowered groups is to occupy and defend a politics of social location rather than to vacate and destroy it.” From “Mapping the Margins,” Stanford Law Review, by Kimberlé Crenshaw, p. 1297.

 

Not when it comes from you. As a source, you seem prone to conspiracy theory so I always have to take your rantings with a grain of salt and check your sources since often the don't say what you say they say.

Make yourself a more reliable poster and maybe I'll change your opinion.

 

Name one.

 

In a previous era of warfare, after breaching defensive works, it was an attacker's objective to turn the defenders' guns around and use them on the defenders. You have accomplished this. Well done.

 

I'll name two: Russia, Russia, Russia and the fine people hoax.

Let me know if those don't apply to you.

 

I ask questions such as "What are you FOR?"
"What are you AGAINST?"

There is a strong movement gathering primarily in the United States to heap shame on white humans and praise black humans.
So there went the idea of equal justice for all.

It is so severe that in Wisconsin on Friday they removed a ROCK of huge size after Democrats called the ROCK racist.

Somebody got stoned to make that claim.