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racism racial segregation social differentiation by race
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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.
Here are the facts: Critical Race Theory is a leftist Marxist point of view that promotes the false premise that whites are racists with a history of "exploiting people of colour." That is a racist and erroneous point of view and not a fact. The Marxist Ministries of Truth pretend and promote the lie as a fact but it is still a lie.
Racism IS institutionalized in this country. So is sexism, and most especially so is
classism. To the degree that it does effect our laws and our legal system. This is not a mystery. Everyone knows it. It's part and parcel of U.S. history just as it is in a great many other countries and societies. Recognizing this is not a "movement". And it's not some sort of anti-social plot. It's just a fact of life among we humans. We are a biased people that tend to favor our own at the expense of others. And so the majority will always tend to skew their laws and legalities in their own favor.
The problem with this is that if it is left to be ignored, it tends to become too extreme, and creates avenues for excessive abuse and exploitation. Like slavery. That can tear a culture or society apart (as it did during the time of the U.S. Civil War). This is not a "conspiracy"; this is just a simple fact. Not just about our culture and society, but of all human cultures and societies. Freedom and social well-being cannot exist unequally. It just becomes oppression, then. And when that oppression becomes too extreme, societies collapse into warfare and revolution. In much the same way as water seeks to follow gravity through the course of least resistance.
No one is attacking or insulting anyone by stating these simple and obvious facts of our reality, and of human history. There is no plot to brainwash or denigrate anyone's children by telling them that this is part of human behavior and history, including that of the U.S.
CRT, however, is specifically about the legal aspects of this phenomena. And as a school curriculum, is only taught at the college level, to law students. It does not exist in high school or grade school. All that's being taught in high school and grade school is history. Which of course does include the reality of racism and sexism as it relates to culture and society; both ours and others. There is no 'boogeyman', here. There is no secret conspiracy to blame all white people for all of society's problems. There is just the simple fact of the existence of racism and sexism among we humans, and that these do effect how human societies and cultures function, in a negative way.
What part of teaching our children this are you all up in arms about? What part are you so keen to fire teachers over?
