Critical Race Theory – a personal assessment

“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”  Stephen Decatur

"... the ultimate purpose of  public education is to subsume the individual's will into the general will."  American Marxist (2021)

George Rebane

CRT is now blowing across the land, starting with our K-12 public schools and continuing on through our public and private institutions to its unbelievable terminus – our military.  Everything in between from corporations to governments at all levels have been infected by a new belief system that sees and describes America at every turn as a deeply flawed nation – to many of us as the world’s most reprehensible country.

CRT is being implanted and implemented in many of its variants.  Not one of them need to check every box in the list of its attributes.  And to the lightly-read with no critical thinking skills, this variability in its applications allows them to deny that CRT is rampant in the land.  These light thinkers are all children of the Left whose leaders and media outlets represent CRT as a culmination of correct insight into the nation’s history.

These insights all center around America as the world’s focused vortex of white supremacy that has kept people of color enslaved in various forms unto this day since it all began for them in 1619.  Our evil and/or ignorant half does not recognize America as the generations-long most desired destination for people of all colors.  They simply ignore the multi-generational mass ingress of immigrants and illegal aliens, and continue, louder than ever, their narrative and pedagogy of a reprobate America.

In these pages we posted many commentaries and comment streams that examine the impact and realities of CRT as it seeps through the most intimate inroads of our society’s public and private lives. (e.g. here, here, here, here, and here) The Left has now successfully submerged even the most balanced criticisms of CRT.  To be caught criticizing, automatically pins the racist label on all who so dare.  This is now so strongly enforced in every level of media and politics that private individuals no longer dare speak their thoughts in normal conversations when they are out and about.  The result is, of course, an ever-widening of the already irredeemable chasm that separates us.

I focus on the damage that is done to our children when they are indoctrinated in public schools with the variants of CRT.  The most visible damage is to the students’ political values with which they matriculate, and then go on to interpret and accept the worldview fed to them daily by our lamestream media.  Absent in their acquired skillsets is critical thinking – the state of the country and world is summarized for them by a set of 17 (don’t hold me to this number) collectivist cum Marxist shibboleths, endlessly repeated and accredited by their political, entertainment, and sports celebrities.

The point here is that this growing cohort of citizenry sees very little about America that should be conserved, for them it is all bad and requires a fundamental transformation to make it right.  That is what CRT-based history has done and continues to do to our citizenry.  It removes the love of country and makes toxic its symbols, traditions, established curricula, and even our everyday language.  All of these are to be replaced by new norms of social justice, equity, and anti-western values.  Never mind that these notions remain undefined.  Without critical thought to light the way, the missing definitions never enter the mind - high-sounding labels suffice to inspire action.

So, call these CRT variants what you will, the bottom line is that people emerge from their indoctrination sessions with a jaundiced eye toward everything traditionally American.  They see little to preserve, and believe that in the transformed brave new world they will be better off in every dimension of human existence.  Most even believe that all this can be achieved with ever less intrusive governments as even neo-Marxist teach the ultimate perfection of Man and the final evaporation of governance.  None are aware of how many eggs had to be cracked in the attempts to make such omelets in the past.

According to my lights, an accurate history of America can and should be taught to our kids.  But it needs to be taught in such a way that on balance, even when recognizing our barnacles, they emerge seeing our country as being an historically exceptional social order.  One that has achieved for its citizens, and the world at large, an enormously increased quality of life, as it continues to be the destination of choice for not only the downtrodden, but also its industrious builders.

Comments

[Gregory]

Critical Theory in all its ingloriousness will either bring down the American Experiment or it will be put to rest with all of the other versions of Marxism that came before it.

CT and CRT is Marx v4.0, via insights from Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party, as he was rotting in an Italian prison in the '30's, mixed in with the fake People's History of the USA by Howard Zinn.

American "higher" education needs to go on a crash diet.

[Bill Tozer]

Have any of you pondered (deeply or in passing) that I have read a stack of articles and opinions on the CDC, India Virus (Delta), papers on the risks (harm) of masking children......that just one week ago would have put me in FB jail?

One week ago someone commented on Twitter under a ‘discussion’ of our CDC Director pushing for masking children two years old wrote, “I would like to see the science behind that.” Banned. Not only was his comment banned and thrown down the memory hole, his entire site was erased by Twitter and he was kicked off every major social media platform and harassed at work.

“Gee, Yogi, I would like to see the research behind why Ranger Smith says I have to wear a mask.”
Yogi: “Shut up Boo-Boo or Mr Ranger will kick you out of Jellystone Park”

One week ago. Now we can discuss it. Follow the science? May I see the science to follow?

One week ago....I pondered such things.

[Bill Tozer]

CRT Roundup: Fairfax County Schools Sent Second Graders Video Vilifying Cops: ‘I Feel Safe When There Are No Police’

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/08/critical-race-theory-roundup/
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‘Massive Teachers Union Sues Mom Who Asked About Political Material In Kindergarten Curriculum’

The National Education Association has sued a mother in Rhode Island who asked what her daughter would be taught in her kindergarten classroom

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/05/massive-teachers-union-sues-mom-who-asked-about-political-material-in-curriculum/

[Bill Tozer]

Ben Shapiro Slams Critical Race Theory, Dismantles ‘Authoritarian’ Left On Real Time With Bill Maher

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-slams-critical-race-theory-dismantles-authoritarian-left-on-real-time-with-bill-maher

[Bill Tozer]

Joy Reid is dumb. Very dumb.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=521108292331701

[scenes]

In case y'all haven't read it, 'The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies' (Legutko) isn't bad. Presents a reasonable model for outlining the movement of which CRT is a part.

Book review: https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/917/917Thompson.pdf

Don't get too hung up on the term 'liberal democracy', the writer goes through a more explicit definition as used.

[George Rebane]

BillT 844am - Unfortunately, Reid is only one of the legion of double dummies on the lamestream. I know it's not possible, but I'd like to see one our liberal readers step up in her defense - the entertainment value would be worth more than the price of admission.

[scenes]

"Unfortunately, Reid is only one of the legion of double dummies on the lamestream."

Never heard of her.

(quickly watches a few videos).

lol. What a piece of work, like a sort of CRT Alex Jones minus the gay frogs. The main difference is that Jones is on his own website and not allowed to use Paypal ('cuz social credit score) and someone like her is on a division of NBCUniversal and allowed to prattle on about whatever.

The fix is in of course but you already knew that.

You won't see a defense since the local left doesn't defend anything, just drive-by accusations of Nazihood and Paul playing to his OnlyFans group with the occasional SOGEORGE. Given the tiny group of TeamBlue who participate it's hard to say if that is a reflection of the mob at large.

[Bill Tozer]

But the Lefties said CRT is not being taught in schools. And people believed them! Thats how insane they are.

'Teachers unions go to court to deter critical race theory disclosure'

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/teachers-unions-go-to-court-to-deter-critical-race-theory-disclosure