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Critical race theory? (Original Post) Randomthought Mar 2023 OP
We used to call CRT History OhNo-Really Mar 2023 #1
It's my understanding that CRT strives to explain how racism has become Poiuyt Mar 2023 #2
On the other hand those critics want to push multigraincracker Mar 2023 #3
Try this dpibel Mar 2023 #4
Thank you Randomthought Mar 2023 #5
I'm reading Caste again. It falls under the description dpibel gives above, so Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #6
Thank you Randomthought Mar 2023 #7
It's really worth spending them on. I'm listening through my free library Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #8
Thank you all Randomthought Mar 2023 #9

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
1. We used to call CRT History
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:52 PM
Mar 2023

I define todays RW CRT as Self-loathing Shame projected onto the “others du jour”

And by fostering hate for US history, the RW Psyops hopes to green light renewed racial divides and justify deplorable, violent treatment of “the others Du Jour”

In the end, if they win, they will turn on each other.

An epic devolution of humanity is blowing in the wind.

Fortunately some voters have woken up and smell the danger.

Speaking of woke 🤢

Woke is the antithesis of hate.

Woke is Love.

Woke is empathy, compassion, humility, politeness, peaceful, lawful, honest in all dealings, in short a good person, idea and/or policy.

Poiuyt

(18,133 posts)
2. It's my understanding that CRT strives to explain how racism has become
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:56 PM
Mar 2023

embedded in our laws, policies, and regulations. It does not lay blame on one group or another. It's not a history of racism, though that may be a part of what's discussed in the coursework.

I'm not a lawyer, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

dpibel

(2,889 posts)
4. Try this
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 12:01 AM
Mar 2023
https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory



critical race theory (CRT), intellectual and social movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of the United States insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Critical race theorists are generally dedicated to applying their understanding of the institutional or structural nature of racism to the concrete (if distant) goal of eliminating all race-based and other unjust hierarchies.

Scrivener7

(51,076 posts)
6. I'm reading Caste again. It falls under the description dpibel gives above, so
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 09:14 AM
Mar 2023

maybe it's a resource. At any rate, it's very good though devastating. Isabel Wilkerson is the author.

Scrivener7

(51,076 posts)
8. It's really worth spending them on. I'm listening through my free library
Sun Mar 5, 2023, 10:19 AM
Mar 2023

app, though, so if you don't want to spend your credits and your library has Libby, it's in there.

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