Critical race theory: Experts break down what it actually means

[@The-Real-Monkey-D-Luffy]

This is the 5th "critical race theory explained" video I've watched and I'm still no closer to understanding their exact points. All I know is that it's a bunch of people who think the system is to blame. Is that correct? The system is racist, not the people?

[@alexhutchins6161]

Im with you. How can we be teaching this if we dont even know what it is. How can people support it if they dont know what it is. I can fight it solely on the fact that they arent telling us what they want to teach children. If it isnt a big deal why is no one talking about what it actually is. Staying super vague and appearing to change the definition.

[@chaosheaven99]

@@alexhutchins6161 Because no one is attempting to teach CRT to students. Schools want to remove censorship from history lessons, no more sugarcoating. CRT is an upper level college lesson that is very easily misunderstood.

[@whatshatnin4572]

I watched a couple of them too and i still dont understand it. Is this something to fight racism or is this something to explain racism.

[@alexhutchins6161]

@@whatshatnin4572 you know thats a good point I didnt consider.

[@mindless_drift]

@@whatshatnin4572 I think it is to more show that racism can be systemic and in people but fixing systemic racism can help reduce racism in people in general. I'm not sure but that's how I interpret it. Since CRT is a upper level college class for what I've heard, I think people just want to sugarcoat history as much as possible. Personally I think we should not sugarcoat it cause people need to know how hurtful racism can be, because at least when I was a kid learning about US history in elementary school I didn't even know what racism was to a extent.

[@RoboNurse84]

As a Canadian I searched for a video like this in order to educate myself about what was going on and what CRT actually is. Now I feel more confused!

[@davidk6264]

Yep, I feel like everyone in the media is being deliberately vague about this. What is a real case example lesson in the classroom that we can examine?

[@gintasasd]

From what i get it its basically about how everything is racist in usa no matter what

[@IndigenousROOTS1]

​@@gintasasd . THAT'S NOT WHAT IT IS

[@warrensabastienanderson]

I think the issue may really be in the name. It sounds like a theory about a critical race. Most people won't bother looking it up, people go off the name, Like how some comment without watching the video or reading the article. On the surface, it seems like a marketing issue.

[@WhatEver-xn5sn]

@@gintasasd Not just everything but every "white" person. How do you fix it? Don't be white X-D This nonsense is ridiculous. Stay away from it. It's like 1984 double speak with extra contradictions and purpose lack of definitions mixed in. These CRT people are basically a brainwashing cult who appropriated the word racism to mean whatever they want it to mean to get their way. Go about your life, be as good a person you can be to all other humans. That should be good enough. Don't waste your life contemplating being guilty for stuff you never did, it's nonsensicle and a waste of a life.

[@jodymilner2435]

The main thing I learned from being a teacher is "don't be a teacher." This is my advice to anyone considering teaching.

[@siobhanroberson5575]

The “whitewashing” of true history is nothing new, and it being wrong in every way isn’t either. Hi

[@skinnie2838]

Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by leftists who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on Election Day.

[@jsin22366322]

@@skinnie2838 its both sides my dude.

[@The_Oblivion_Light]

Good one. I wanted to be one, but as time went by, I've noticed that kids have more "rights" to do what ever the hell they want and that was observed 20 years ago. Now, as you said, it is not recommended to be a teacher. This country has officially become a physiological mess! We are the greatest country only because we desire and strive to live at a higher standard, yet we tend to bully and put a price on souls before achieving greatness and when greatness is achieved, we get so greedy and self absorbed over who has more and and look down on who has less. Adults these days tend to NOT be a good example for kids. We scream out about our rights, but after when we break the law as if we have the right to to do so. Law enforcement is not exempt from that as well. But indeed, the classroom is where all the BS you are seeing these days begin and we are teaching our children to grow up to be unruly adults. We are past the point of no return. Its perpetual now!

[@The_Oblivion_Light]

@@adamcharney Damn! Well, thats what America don't like...The truth. At least the ones who are doing well and alway tell people they do wrong to "Love it or leave it."

[@theinnocentpope9482]

How to make a video titled CRT: Experts break down what it actually means without explaining what it actually means at all. Great job.

[@WokeBegone]

For that, check out James Lyndsey videos

[@olliemck60]

They explained it in the first 15 seconds, where were you? CRT provides a way of understanding America's legacy of racism. Duh!

[@WokeBegone]

@@olliemck60 Yeah, right, it means Race Marxism, so the original poster is exactly right

[@James-gq4tb]

I'm sorry you didn't understand the video

[@WokeBegone]

@@James-gq4tb Oh I understood the video, and the limitations of the video.

[@paulsnow]

Did I miss something? Did anyone explain CRT? Seems like they only explained the goals. Like saying a car is where you need to go to a store, or to school. And not get wet. And how we have a history of going places but don't talk about it. It is assumed. All those words and no explanation of what we are actually talking about.

[@jdrizzle8424]

Thank you. I agree. CRT is always "explained" with a bunch of pretentious mumbo jumbo.

[@nofilter2851]

He explained it at 1:04.

[@paulsnow]

@@nofilter2851 I agree but then joy asserted he was wrong. Edit: Sorry, replying to the wrong video.

[@deductivevariance3497]

CRT is a purposefully vague and misleading con-job to break the American Nation through discrimination/racism. For what purpose? Most likely to destroy America as we know it by replacing the Constitution and by instating a foreign power to control over Americans through many different means - social control, lockdowns, laws, rigged voting, fake-news media that spreads propaganda, seeding chaos and destruction by breaking law and order through defund police and riots of Antifa/BLM, using the education system for indoctrination, etc....

[@tonyetzu]

Yes. and Yes. what critical race theory means was explained in this video. Both in the sense of how it is used by scholars to examine disparities in the legal system, and in the sense of how Republicans are using it as a boogeyman.

[@jonralph8843]

Black folks shouldn't entrust the entire education of their kids to the schools only. Why would they? Sit your kids down after dinner and start telling them gradually the history of black people in America from the perspective of a black person. Let them hand it down to their own kids and so on. That's how to keep these stories and histories alive. Waiting for the system that's implicitly biased against you to teach them isn't reasonable or realistic.

[@lastbraincell5041]

You assume that African Americans don’t do this already? 💀

[@goiufro]

They shouldn't have to do that though, It's 2022 FFS

[@jonralph8843]

@@goiufro they should have to do that. Why would you under any circumstance entrust the entire education of your kids to the state? Why? Now more than ever is the time for parents to be more involved in the education of their kids otherwise they'd end up raising total strangers.

[@jonralph8843]

@@lastbraincell5041 I do not assume anything. I only made a suggestion.

[@lastbraincell5041]

@@jonralph8843 you literally did but ok

[@djmill8000]

So schools have been teaching about slavery for years, no one ever seemed to care about how it made black kids feel. The history made it seemed like black American history started on a boat.. I remember asking my teacher about what happened before the slave ship and his answer was "this is American history not african history class" which is true but yet they teach us European history.

[@noobish]

for real man, to them world history started when european people learned to write

[@djmill8000]

It's just funny how American history has made slave = black synonymous, when other racial/color groups including white people was also slaves as well, however they don't mention that at all in American history class.. so now it cones off as somebody is trying to push an agenda...Now they are crying critical race theory when you can no longer push that only blacks were slaves narrative

[@djmill8000]

@@lobbyskids2 idk that's why I'm trying to get an understanding of what crt is... I don't agree with "whitness" being responsible for slavery because it's not. like i stated in my last post slavery didn't have any color stigma attached to it, it was big buisness, any racial or color group could have and have been slaves.. However; why do majority of people especially Americans think that slaves is synonymous with black people. Is that by design? Who is responsible for that way of thinking? The school system, for failing to explain slavery in its full detail not only explaining or teaching it in a way to marginalized one group as if your history did not matter and you are only slaves, but then turn around in the sane class teach about European history. Now the same school system is upset about how white kids are feeling a way when the subject of slavery is brought up, but no one cared or cares about how the subject has been or is being taught in a way to marginalized black children. Why the history class made it seem like if you was black in america you was automatically a slave, when that wasn't true, why they don't teach you about how there was free people of color that came to america Not as a slave?

[@peggy1707]

European history is false. Their history is demonic, genocidal and perverted.

[@mrsjayhoward]

For me I don’t believe it is educations fault for the lack of Black history in the class room, that is a failing on the Black community, why would you expect someone else to teach your history and culture. I think people ignore reality. Look throughout history the victors tell the story our entire understanding of the world is based on what we study from the past and honestly we don’t know if we have it right we just have what we have and we draw conclusions based on the evidence. The people who lived through these things don’t think the same as we do today. We are wasting time talking instead of taking action through our own communities

[@hankkingsley9183]

I feel I was cheated in public high school because they explicitly ignored certain events in our shared history. We must know our own history and that of others so that we do not repeat the same mistakes.

[@umenhuman7573]

best thing i did as a kid was took an interest in the history of warfare and civilization (outside of school as we had no tv), it provideed a good base to structure other knowledge around with the obvious advantage of increasing understanding of how other peoples / cultures developed and where many of the differences stem from

[@peggy1707]

Exactly. They don't want their children to learn about African American history because they want them to continue racism.

[@jamestunedflat8942]

History cannot be understood without a proper understanding of human evolution, psychology, and philosophy. I feel cheated that those subjects were either glossed over or omitted entirely. As far as critical theory is concerned, one must understand Marx, Foucault, and the Frankfurt school thinkers, as well as the scholars involved in the lectures of critical race theory. Otherwise it's pure indoctrination into a political ideology which is quite dangerous.

[@hankkingsley9183]

@@peggy1707 I had no awareness of Tulsa Massacre until seeing the Watchmen movie... how f'd up is that...

[@fredleinweber2819]

@@peggy1707 dumbest comment I've seen in a while. Congrats 🤡! EVERYONE has learned about slavery, segregation, and the REAL fight for civil rights in the 50s and 60s. Take a seat

[@anonymoususer4376]

My rejection of CRT is that it forms a conclusion for you instead of allowing children to form their own opinions. Teach just facts and ALL of it, but leave out what you believe the intention was.

[@anonymoususer4376]

@Officer Meow maybe you can explain then. from what I gather, CRT's premise is that racism is built into society (systemic racism) and what happened in 1619 affects society today. Not true?

[@anonymoususer4376]

@Officer Meow well the NEA (largest teacher's union in US) and Biden's education secretary both promote CRT. But I hope you're right and that it will NOT be taught in schools. It's nothing more than brainwashing kids.

[@anonymoususer4376]

@Officer Meow everyone should be against it but sadly you're wrong because it is being taught in schools. it was on the local stations and it's being pushed from on top. just do a search and you'll see examples of it in today's classrooms. I have nothing against the poor or wealthy. everyone's worth is decided in the market place. want something better? make the adjustment. that's the American dream.

[@anonymoususer4376]

@Officer Meow it's your right to put the blinders on. the reason it's debated from the White House to the local school house is because it is being taught. ever see protests between school boards and parents? why would you "protest" if it didn't exist. and if you listened in, school boards aren't denying it and they're the ones who guide curriculum in schools.

[@TaylorWaylorrr]

but all of the facts of history aren’t taught & the ones that are taught in general social studies/history aren’t very in depth.

[@ryanthompson591]

Had to go to Wikipedia to figure out what it even is. This video didn't define it well which makes sense, because even the academics disagree about exact definitions of CRT.

[@roddmatsui3554]

Because it’s not a real idea. It’s a broken pastiche of ideas MASQUERADING as an ideology.

[@Ash_W04]

@@roddmatsui3554 Ideology isn’t really the right word to use there. Framework perhaps but CRT itself isn’t an ideology just apart of a larger ideology.

[@matzstrom3223]

@@Ash_W04 Yes, the framework is from Karl Marx's theory

[@Joshua-eb3fz]

@Anna Murray Douglass - Abolitionist Marx believed that means if production, or power, was used to create an economic and cultural environment that legitimized and entrenched the ruling class. CRT is the same principle but it replaces social classes with racial ones. This is why cultural appropriation is such a big deal. Its theft of labor but in this instance cultural labor. The problem is that our society doesn't neatly divide power by race so CRT has the effect of using racism to prove power imbalances. While there is racism and there is power balances, they aren't always associated. So evidence of racism in the presence of power imbalance is taken as proof that one leads to the other. This is the case sometimes but often they are too separate things the interplay and feed off of each other.

[@ronnieronb73]

@Anna Murray Douglass - Abolitionist In their book, “Critical Race Theory,” professors Delgado and Stefancic cite first as one of their influences the Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci.

[@blakelewison9872]

The problem is the parents don’t have the courage to be honest with their kids.

[@caffeinefree667]

Creating the next generation of bigots.

[@ribbrascal]

@@caffeinefree667 lol yeah against white people

[@sethmcgee8948]

@@caffeinefree667 exactly

[@o4tw382]

@@caffeinefree667 BINGO.

[@wolfpack1507]

honest about what?

[@cowtoyscbc]

Note the definition of race: A misleading and deceptively appealing classification of human beings created by White people originally from Europe which assigns human worth and social status using the White racial identity as the archetype of humanity for the purpose of creating and maintaining privilege, power, and systems of oppression. (Lawrence and Keleher) Lawrence, K., & Keleher, T. (Eds.). Proceedings from Race and Public Policy Conference 2004. Chronic disparity: Strong and pervasive evidence of racial inequalities. (p.1-6). Berkeley: CA.

[@flyingsolotiltheend3058]

Boom. There it is.!

[@kirayoshikage1491]

Thanks for the video, all I’ve heard so far is the right saying “it’s just insulting white people” and the left saying “it’s not racist, it’s just teaching a part of history” but I’d never actually heard WHAT crt is. Tbh, after learning what it is, I don’t think this should be an actual class, I think it should be a unit covered in civics class.

[@stevegovea1]

I agree. I clicked on 3 videos and so far nothing but a round about answer.

[@CoreyStudios2000]

Or even better, bump the whole CRT conspiracy theory into the dumpster along with Flat Earth Theory, Astrology, Creationism, and Postmodern “Philosophy.”

[@kirayoshikage1491]

@@CoreyStudios2000 it’s not on that level, those conspiracies have no evidence, and actually have enough evidence against them to prove they aren’t true, while crt is an actual theory.

[@kirayoshikage1491]

@Anna Murray Douglass - Abolitionist I have no clue, but I wouldn't be surprised

[@StephRivera]

I think it's pretty clear. She says it's when you teach that the system is racist. And I think people want to believe that it's just the people that are racist. But this CRT is teaching that black people couldn't buy homes they wanted and they were put in separated communities. It wasn't just hurtful words.

[@ToothBrush531]

The problem seems to be that a lot of people on the left feel this need to immediately see a crt critic as this enemy with views completely opposite to theirs. They feel like attacking them by saying ridiculous things like “you want to sweep history under the rug” and that’s just not the case. And then you also have the same issue of people on the right not seeing that a lot of people on the left don’t want extreme views being taught, views which try to make white kids feel guilty and views that try to make everything about race. I feel like people on the left are ignorant as to the dangers of this and people on the right are ignorant towards the great benefits. The majority of us (on the left and the right) are more similar than we are different and I don’t think we’re seeing that. At the end of the day I think the big issues surrounding crt need to be openly discussed an d addressed before we start teaching it to kids. I don’t want my kids to feel like they are being reduced to their skin color, and I’ve seen a lot of horrific clips of teachers teaching things that lead to those feelings. And I know that most of them have good intentions, it’s just that we disagree about what is harmful and what’s not and we need to have a more open discussion about it. It just gets hard when your friends on Facebook immediately turn to extremist views and then you feel like you can’t openly discuss things with them because you don’t want them to think that you’re a monster (that goes for both sides).

[@derrickbell24]

- As far as I'm concerned, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, you really don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion on the topic. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What problem did Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman and other legal scholars wrestle with in the 1970s that eventually led to the founding of the Critical Race Theory movement? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Name three of the founders of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did it mean? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? Name one of the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real, or is race a social construct? Is racism a normal feature of society? Is racism embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality? Is racism confined to a few “bad apples?” Is racism codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy? Why does Critical Race Theory reject claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness?” Does the systemic nature of racism bear primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality? Are people’s everyday lives relevant to scholarship? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? How did you do?

[@Machu4]

@@derrickbell24 Literally all advocates for CRT hide and obfuscate the intended curriculum of CRT, now on top of that you're going to gate keep the conversation if we don't have your "requirements" to discuss it? I wonder why there is so much conflict regarding this? Really baffles me, bro. It's almost as if parents don't want sanctimonious moral busy bodies to prescribe their world views onto children. What do I know though, I'm sure I'm a racist in your eyes.

[@depressedessendonfan5702]

@@Machu4 This. its key to never take at this rhetorical frame they try to force. Its like a ben shapiro debate. They merely try reduce any criticism of its core PHISLOPHICAL tenets, of which the entire thing is both BUILT and CRITICISED by people opposed to it, and make a smoke screen by arguing that you have no logical justification to question it's authority if you can't answer specific trivia in its history.

[@depressedessendonfan5702]

@@derrickbell24 Try this one coming from someone who made PHD candidature out of their social science degree 7 years ago and knows this stuff inside out and backwards. What are the limitations epistemologically and at a meta theory level - of critical theory. And further, of critical race theory. And in addition to this, why are these problems so common among theories from the social sciences in general? There's two types of CRT supporters who can't answer this. - Uneducated ones who dont have the insights - Highly educated ones who know they cannot answer this without immediately allowing the critical approach to go back at them. The absolutely worst thing to these people is any conversation that can lead people to doubt the conviction of the world view CRT offers. This is why they want to dumb it down for kids - layered realities are too complex for children so they know if they teach kids History through CRT philosophy without any qualifiers they will accept the assumptions and axioms as if they are objective reality, rather than a framework. It is as insidious as McDonalds marketing campaigns targeting children with the bribe of toys if they buy their products. Disgraceful.

[@Bird.Lover6000]

@@derrickbell24 I'm replying to you just to say (yes I am ignorant on the subject and trying to learn) it is quiet funny how none of the replies towards you could answer a single question. Alright time to go back in the endless hole of yt.

[@daftwod]

Its starting to look like segregation wasn't just meanies being mean.

[@marsking443]

How dare they teach accurate American History in American schools?! We need to keep our children blissfully ignorant!!!

[@billsimms2511]

@@marsking443 haha cRT is not history!! It has nothing to do with history or science, it’s all about hyper focusing on race. It’s about seeing race everywhere so you have an excuse to fail

[@virginiansupremacy]

@@billsimms2511 crt is history

[@talicadk]

@@virginiansupremacy It has nothing to do with history. it does mentioned it but highly flawed.

[@aboutmyfathersworkalways7095]

@@billsimms2511 America has always been "Hyper focused" on race. You're in denial and it won't help you. Your children will still learn the concepts of CRT because your denial teaches it. There is too much information easily available for people to still be willfully ignorant.

[@Goodmanliveforever33]

We must embrace the truth and teach our children the truth. No matter how it's hurts

[@catharperfect7036]

Nothing in CRT is related to objective truth.

[@engjds]

No, we should teach kids to THINK and not accept CRT and other establishment doctrines until they have thought about it.

[@coltonwilkie241]

Truth being what, exactly? The truth is CRT is crap.

[@rhwing5095]

Teach history as history... just a list of things that happened. Don't infuse it with your own perspective, biases, and ideology.

[@johnvictorroderos8842]

Hmm intriguing. What I got from the video is that CRT teaches that racism is systemic -- systemic meaning it is/was embedded in society and society's institutitions. Question then. Is teaching that once upon a time in America a privileged class (Whites) wrote laws that discriminated against other classes (Blacks, Latinos, Asians)? Did this same type of racism exist then in not only rhe community level, but in the State and Federal level as well? So what viewpoint exactly are they teaching here?

[@JJ-el6qx]

@@johnvictorroderos8842 i don't understand what your asking. Do you agree to teach about how systematic racism happened? Like how you said about once upon a time laws were created...?

[@andrewanderson6121]

History is NOT a list of things that happened. Understanding history has to come from an informed perspective. By the way, you need to consider who makes the list and the assumptions behind the choices. Don't be so simplistic!

[@amandagavalier3081]

Can we get a look at the actual curriculum? A study of race relations historically and presently (which such complex human interaction is better left in late high school or college environments) is completely different from the ideas that are being objected to.

[@amandagavalier3081]

@Southpaw I agree - It would just be great to have links to follow to allow people to see for themselves what is presented, and where. The media is untrustworthy and everything appears to be stated opinions. I’d like to see people tracking down the facts for themselves and providing a path towards the actual material would be great.

[@billsimms2511]

@@amandagavalier3081 you won’t get links because what’s going on in schools is pretty much straight up racism .

[@Ryan-fy8bx]

This does sound like a very solid and logical comment. Regardless of what we believe we should be asking this question.

[@chocov1233]

@@Ryan-fy8bx I agree.

[@dustinjoeypace]

CRT is not “learning about racism”. That idea was literally cooked up by a republican propaganda expert to push conservatives to have an excuse to ignore all racial biases and black history.

[@blank6671]

I think that this would be a good thing to talk about but I’d love it if they also talk about how to change that. Like, open a conversation on how to solve unfair racial systems. I think that would solve a lot of problems.

[@oppothumbs1]

Ethics has little to do with critical race theory. Any race or group in power might tend to be corrupt and discriminatory. ME? I just like white people better a little better. They tend to be a little smarter in general and less violent. I also like Asian people more than white. It's my biology and environment that gives me these preferences. I dont hate any race; I just prefer some over others.

[@oppothumbs1]

Right and Musk just wants a conversation from both sides to be civil and not demanding we follow like sheep.

[@olliemck60]

The most disruptive and impactful bias/racism is institutional bias/racism, whether intended or not. CRT identifies institutional bias by examining significant disparity in institutional behavior/results in certain population groups; the sources/reasons for these disparate results whether it is laws, policy, procedure, attitude or misunderstanding is located using organizational development techniques, new policies and procedures, and training aimed at changing the institution's behavior. Changing the biased attitudes and behaviors of some individuals (the deplorables) will take longer but is also the smaller problem as the offending group is small in comparison to the overall population. Institutional bias is the priority, and CRT is a great remediation tool for institutions.

[@justinthomas4032]

@@oppothumbs1 less violent lmao.

[@chocov1233]

I agree.

[@brettjamz3]

We could just stick to the facts and not the opinions. That would be a great start. Let our young people decide for themselves what is good. With out the politics of influence.

[@zachwilliams9454]

Beautifully put

[@Rsawali]

Agree

[@Bird.Lover6000]

As a kid I literally don't mind learning this it goes more indepth instead of regular old white washed south history classes.

[@jesssam4238]

@@Bird.Lover6000 high schools don’t teach CRT it is something you only hear about in higher studies bc it is not solid it is barely a framework for legal scholars, what people think CRT is, is actually just how racism and race affected the US which is absolutely important bc it is part of American history

[@danielx1224]

Of course. The problem is politicians on the right want to censor racist acts carried out by Americans in the past and make it seem like people of color have always been treated fairly.

[@adambrian1913]

What we don't know about CRT: Read from CRT theorists: ***CRT questions, criticizes, challenges, and even rejects classical liberal value, like, color-blindness, racial integration, equality, individualism, incremental improvement, "objective, neutral, and balanced" view, etc. and the traditional 1964 civil rights movement discourse. *** "The aspect of our work which most markedly distinguishes it from conventional liberal and conservative legal scholarship about race and inequality is deep dissatisfaction with traditional civil rights discourse" --Critical Race Theory: the key writings that formed the movement. Edited by Kimberle Crenshaw , ... "Unlike traditional civil rights discourse, which stresses 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 principals of constitutional law." -- Critical Race Theory. An Introduction. Third edition. by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic ***CRT starts in law school, rapidly spread into other fields, including education. ***** "Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT’s ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking, controversies over curriculum and history, and IQ and achievement testing. Political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists. Ethnic studies courses often include a unit on critical race theory, and American studies departments teach material on critical white students developed by CRT writers. Unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory contains an activist dimension. It not only tries to understand our social situation, but to change it." -- Critical Race Theory. An Introduction. Third edition. by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic ***CRT rejects objective, neutral, and balanced as white value, advocates subjectivity and political activism. ***** "A major theme of critical race theory reflects the colored intellectual's persistent battle to avoid being rendered inauthentic by the pressures of adapting to the white world and, instead, to take an oppositional stance by relying on one's true existential life, which is rooted in a world of color even though not stuck there... As a reflection of authenticity, critical race scholarship also rejects the traditional dictates that implore one to write and study as a detached observer whose work is purportedly objective, neutral, and balanced. In the classic sense of "professing", critical race scholars advocate and defend positions." Fran Olsen points out that traditional scholarship's appearance of balance presupposes a status quo baseline that hinders both understanding... --Critical race theory, archie shep, and fire music: securing an authentic intellectual life in a multicultural world by John O. Calmore "Critical race theorists embrace subjectivity of perspective and are avowedly political. ...We use personal histories, parables, chronicles, dreams, stories, poetry, fiction, and revisionist histories to convey our message." -- Words that wound. critical race theory, assaultive speech, and the first amendment. by Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberle Crenshaw ***CRT rejects legal discourse*** "The CLS (critical legal studies) emphasis on DECONSTRUCTION as the vehicle for liberation leads to the conclusion that engaging in legal discourse should be avoided because it reinforces not only the discourse itself but also the society and the world that it embodies." -- Race, Reform, and retrenchment: transformation and legitimation in antidiscrimination law by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw ***CRT rejects incremental change, advocates revolution ***** "The predicament of social reform, as one writer pointed out, is that "everything must change at once." Otherwise, change is swallowed up by the remaining elements, so that we remain roughly as we were before. Culture replicates itself forever and ineluctably." -- Critical Race Theory. An Introduction. Third edition. by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic “As I see it, critical race theory recognizes that revolutionizing a culture begins with the radical assessment of it.” by Derrick Bell ***CRT considers black nationalist as part of racial politics. ***** "Whatever the intentions and psycho-cultural needs of black integrationists in the past, it should now be apparent that the exclusion of a nationalist approach to racial justice from mainstream discourse has been a cultural and political mistake that has constrained the boundaries of racial politics." --Race-consciousness by Gary Peller ***CRT rejects capitalism *** "Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist. They were birthed together from the same unnatural causes, and they shall one day die together from unnatural causes. " -- Passing an Anti-Racist constitutional amendment. (politico magazine) by Ibram X. Kendi ***CRT advocates using racial discrimination to fight racism*** "The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." -- Ibram X. Kendi ***CRT opposes color-blind, racial integration *** "cultural genocide. In short, assimilation as a societal goal has grave potential consequences for blacks and other nonwhites. However utopian it appears, the color-blind assimilationist program implied the hegemony of white culture. " -- A critique of "our constitution is color-blind" by Neil Gotanda "The postracial idea is the most sophisticated racist idea ever produced." By Ibram X. Kendi ***CRT is neo Marxism *** "By legitimizing the use of race as a theoretical fulcrum and focus in legal scholarship, the so-called racialist accounts of racism and the law grounded the subsequent development of Critical Race Theory in much the same way that Marxism's introduction of class structure and struggle into classical political economy grounded subsequent critiques of social hierarchy and power. " --Critical Race Theory: the key writings that formed the movement. Edited by Kimberle Crenshaw , ... ***CRT borrows from Marxism, nationalism *** "Critical race theory is interdisciplinary and eclectic. It borrows from several traditions, including liberalism, law and society, feminism, Marxism, poststructuralism, critical legal theory, pragmatism, and nationalism. " -- Words that wound. critical race theory, assaultive speech, and the first amendment. by Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberle Crenshaw ***CRT strategize way to disseminate its believes into every corner of society without resistance, even awareness *** "Critical race theory may even follow the examples of critical legal studies (CLS), which embedded itself so thoroughly in academic scholarship and teaching that its precepts become commonplace, part of the conventional wisdom. This may, in fact, be happening. Consider how in many disciplines scholars, teachers, and course profess, almost incidentally, to embrace critical race theory. Consider as well how many influential commentators, journalists, and books, such as Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, develop critical themes while hardly mentioning their origins in critical thought. Might critical race theory one day diffuse into the atmosphere, like air, so that we are hardly aware of it anymore?" -- Critical Race Theory. An Introduction. Third edition. by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

[@CatatonicImperfect]

A wall of out-of-context quotes is not the argument you think it is.

[@davidmarsh9386]

@@CatatonicImperfect A million direct quotes there, all advocating for the same rotten philosophy, and they’re all “out of context”? Bruh

[@lewislee9201]

@@CatatonicImperfect I think they sum up the core CRT arguments pretty well. Have you a counter-argument to offer us?

[@gogeta7455]

Crt has an actual definition, all you have to do is look it up.the fact that you are quoting theorist is baffling.look it up and don't post someone else's opinion about something that is other than the definition of it.

[@lewislee9201]

@@gogeta7455 Perhaps you could save us the trouble and post the link, because I have heard people on CNN claiming that CRT is some arcane theory that is only taught in law schools, which does not seem to be correct.

[@koorb]

The problem with representing multiple viewpoints on an issue is that it often gives voice to little unsupported views. For example, the earth's shape, oil pollution, racism or if terrorism is a good way of representing political views. These things have a clear and established right way of thinking that is supported by many years of social development and evidence, and a small, marginalized group supporting the wrong way of thinking. But by representing the views equally, it makes the marginal views appear to have more valid points or evidential weight than they actually do.

[@danielju6635]

That’s racist!

[@Aleksamson]

Maybe it's awkwardly worded. It's not about teaching different -good and bad things. Bad things shouldn't be taught. Fixating on identities (when it shouldn't be a factor) is harmful. Instilling victim mentality and collective guilt is divisive. Multiple viewpoints? Politically neutral -should be the point. They say a good teacher (or a journalist) is: when you can't tell how he/she votes. Replacing US flag with rainbow or BLM flag shouldn't be allowed.

[@wowza2050]

This is actually a really good point. The "middle ground" fallacy is what you're referring to. If our country just layed down what certain things mean and the way things are, there's no room for speculation. And people who oppose don't even make it to the surface.

[@chocov1233]

The heck is a "right way of thinking"?

[@YourKingJDG]

@@Aleksamson or the blue lives matter flag. Anyway, teaching history shouldn’t be divisive to you. Teaching crt is just teaching history with no filter. If you think this is divisive then maybe you need to reflect on yourself and your people. Sensitive subject or not, things were done that need to come to light. Hiding stuff only means you’ll be doomed to repeat it. A great divide is happening because a large group of people want to forget history, there’s only one right way to heal. And it’s through knowledge and acknowledgment.

[@JerichoLeon]

So... what exactly is it? Is it the theory that racism still exists despite the surface level policies forbidding it?

[@xXJerry202Xx]

I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, moved to the US, went to college in both countries with help from the Pell grant, dropped out, went to tech school and am now an airplane mechanic. What systemic racism are we talking about? Racist individuals don't make everybody (and everybody in the system) racist.

[@0mnicide]

But the systemic systems of systematically systemic systems is systematic.

[@NeonKue]

CRT in a nutshell: Fight racism with racism.

[@ad72644]

How’s studying racism racist?

[@sfxanno2311]

Soo basically its positive discrimination then?

[@sfxanno2311]

@@lobbyskids2 well hmm honestly my opinion on this matter is hmmm idk im a liberal but also 20% conservative and 20%socialist but 60% liberal and i believe in teaching school children about uncensored,unedited and unpropagandated history.and well indeed we need to teach school children all the goods and bads of the country,the history of the country,the good and the bad actions of the country,the history of nit only the country but the land they're living on.and im gonna ask everyone thats in this comments section,did any single country in the world teaches their children CRT style???

[@sfxanno2311]

@@lobbyskids2 soo basically we need to teach our children that the US never made any mistakes?and never do anything bad?

[@sfxanno2311]

@@lobbyskids2 hmmm soo you mean that we should stop teaching our kids that the US is a country thats founded on racism???is that the point that ur making?

[@allysonyoung2771]

Well this video did not enlighten me on what ‘critical race theory’ is. I will now look up the term on Wikipedia,

[@olliemck60]

They explained the purpose in the first 15 seconds and the methodology throughout the video. CRT provides a way of understanding America's legacy of racism. It's an interdisciplinary look at the impact of racism in America with the goal of remediating its continuing harmful impact. It uses history and economics, etc to examine policies, practices, laws, and programs for their impact on any group. It then offers recommendations on how to change the offending policies and remediate the damage. It is not rocket science, it is problem-solving 101. Find a problem, investigate, propose solutions, confirm, and launch the solution.

[@paulmichael7194]

Im have been searching for answers on what CRT is. I keep hearing that we have laws today that are inherently racist and aimed at keeping minorities down. However, I never hear specific laws and policies that highlight the theory.

[@anonymoususer4376]

I'm with you. I ask the same question and have never heard a good answer. If there's a racist law or policy, it should be explored and if actually racist, be eliminated.

[@ARealPersonNotABot]

There are none. CRT is nothing more than low information activists hell bent on tearing this country down. That's not my word it's theirs. They have said on plenty occasions that they want to destroy this country. They call it irredeemably racist

[@luceatlux7087]

I don't really understand how things like this are tools of perspective (or propaganda). Systems of understanding such as this are simply embarrassing (due to what Paul mentions). Anyone who has seen a child with crumbs all over his face who spins a lie about how they haven't eaten a cookie is aware of how this kind of thing looks when being advocated.

[@jamelelhadjhamlaoui8753]

Those people who believe in CRT are complete morons, for example they say that when academics follow an objective approach and based on meritocracy, that's a "white supremacist" approach, yeah being objective and Don't discriminate is being white supremacist according to critical race theorists and they say that in their books so their theory simply means that black people should aim to discriminate in favor of other black people. I'm not from united States I live in france, and I can tell you if someone says those kind of stupid and racist ideas here he will be either In jail or be fired from his job, so we find it really funny how Americans are even discussing to teach this bullshit to kids lol

[@why-cooking]

You won't find the answer on YT aside from actual lectures. To understand CRT, the best place is in the writings of some of the earlier legal scholars like Patricia Williams. Most of what you find online is second-hand knowledge.

[@snapfinger1]

The only critical race theory that needs to be taught is how to win the Daytona 500.

[@olliemck60]

In fact, the Daytona 500 is probably talked about more in k-12 than CRT.

[@demighost1982]

As a student i don't support any attempt by the govt to give us more Home work, If they're gonna add this they better remove something in return

[@ARealPersonNotABot]

I have yet to see any of these people get on and debate this. They stick to echo chambers, and just let one side speak about it, and then give a lame summary of what the other side says. What are you afraid of? Why not let the world know what it really is? It's because it's racism

[@ancarwillis9060]

@@fuckoff81747 that is definitely a flaw however let’s be honest people are going to always be focused more on the issues that plague them than others. It’s just hard to see past our own discrimination when we’re still struggling against it. Hell we have to fight every ten years or so just for the right of black people to vote in this country because the voting rights act literally has an expiration on it. It shouldn’t be difficult. Should black people be able to vote in this country or not and if so should we allow for provisions to impede them in any sort of way? You might be surprised as to people’s thoughts on the matter.

[@jayn8392]

I have seen a few but they just do what aboutism and make strawmen the whole time. It's absurd.

[@derrickbell24]

- As far as I'm concerned, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, you really don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion on the topic. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What problem did Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman and other legal scholars wrestle with in the 1970s that eventually led to the founding of the Critical Race Theory movement? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Name three of the founders of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did it mean? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? Name one of the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real, or is race a social construct? Is racism a normal feature of society? Is racism embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality? Is racism confined to a few “bad apples?” Is racism codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy? Why does Critical Race Theory reject claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness?” Does the systemic nature of racism bear primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality? Are people’s everyday lives relevant to scholarship? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? How did you do?

[@michaelpcoffee]

@@derrickbell24 If you can't answer the following question in the negative; you are disqualified from civil society altogether: Do you support using government force to implement racial discrimination? How did you do?

[@JayLew91]

@@michaelpcoffee government has forced racial discrimination. People love to act like red lining was a long time ago, if you are an adult today, red lining was your grandparents time. They weren't given the opportunity to build wealth like middle class white Americans were.

[@jered1282]

Every discussion I’ve heard regarding this issue always resorts to “those against it just want to sweep history under the rug”. In this video they claimed some states laws passed are “vague”, but to me it seems that’s because this whole push for crt is vague. I’ve heard “it’s just history of racism”, and then “it’s to open a conversation”, etc. my question is when did we place the responsibility of teaching our kids morality? Isn’t that exactly why the founders kept church and state separate? I was taught about our history in school, so im confused what they’re claiming wasn’t taught that needs to be? I wish they would stop saying we don’t understand what crt is, yet it’s them they keeps explaining it as some umbrella ideology for good.. almost like they don’t wanna spell it out, or they plan to leave it open to individual teachers/schools to do with what they will. I always considered myself on the left, until now and it’s crazy that no one can seem to explain what changed

[@1432HATAZ]

You sound dumb and racist

[@mrman-yj3bn]

@@1432HATAZ no, hating white people is racist.

[@1432HATAZ]

@@mrman-yj3bn who hates white people? You obviously haven't a clue, open your mind smh

[@mrman-yj3bn]

@@1432HATAZ open my mind into thinking I'm a bad person because of the colour of my skin? Nah, I'm good

[@AdrienLegendre]

CRT is not teaching morality, CRT is a Marxist based ideology that needs to be introduced to our children.

[@RealStuntPanda]

The saddest instance of this broken, bigoted Texas law is when Gina Peddy who is an administrator in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas said teachers need to balance books about the holocaust with "opposing" views. One of the teachers is flabbergasted and says, "How do you oppose the Holocaust?" Meaning why would a teacher teach pro-holocaust propaganda?

[@andrewbilodeau8227]

Most schools already teach the philosophy of evolution, which if broken down into it's most basic form says that the only way the human race can evolve is by the process of natural selection: the so called strong killing off the weak. This is the foundation of eugenics, the driving idea behind the holocaust. There's your pro-holocaust view point. Just something to think about.

[@RealStuntPanda]

@@andrewbilodeau8227 You clearly don't understand evolution, which is why you made such an uninformed claim. Evolution is driven by natural selection, not killing off the weak. Natural selection means if you have characteristics that make you more successful (e.g. you have a longer neck so can reach leaves higher up) then you have a higher chance of surviving and breeding. The trait of a longer neck is then passed on to your progeny and they are more successful so pass on the trait. And so on and so on over many, many generations. Something to think about.

[@blackgirlemonight]

exactly? how do you oppose slavery?

[@maliksamarijones9304]

How are you going to have a video that says experts explain what critical race theory is, and not even have Kimberly Crenshaw talk about it? 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️

[@maliksamarijones9304]

@Anna Murray Douglass - Abolitionist I highly doubt it, that sounds like one of those things you just shouldn't believe from the silly internet

[@forzaf1gtaracingandmore824]

The only thing I learned in school relating to race is that we shouldn’t discriminate because of anything, nothing else should be taught and maybe people would stop being racist (That goes all ways).

[@tonie374]

Lol. In an ideal world, that may work. But we don’t live in one.

[@Stew282]

@@tonie374 It was working. It was working very well, until the racist bastards in academia invented CRT!

[@Evan94045]

@@Stew282 ah yes, nobody was racist before the 80’s

[@Stew282]

@@Evan94045 Did you do a course in stupid comments or does it come naturally? Why don't you think before you write?

[@MoSuli96]

@@Stew282 maybe it was working in your little bubble bro But to be so oblivious and think that so many racial injustices still do not occur today is ridiculous. You think finally giving the historical backbone of America basic civil and human rights just 55 years ago after Jim Crow, slavery and so many countless atrocities will have no lasting effects today? Racism is alive and well especially middle America and the south to this day

[@frontliner2]

Discussing racism in school is a way to prevent racism in adulthood due to ignorance. Also people may learn to empathize that way beyond their own color. I applaud this,

[@Atamanxxxvii]

Then why is the one project spawned out of this, the 1619 project, so historically inaccurate? If it's just about "preventing racism in adulthood" why are the definitions so fiercely controlled by one side?

[@bigginsg8711]

CRT is racism

[@AdrienLegendre]

Correct and the best approach is to avoid ideology (CRT)

[@maxoblivion]

Who gets to decide which social narratives are accurate and should be taught to K-12 children?

[@blueguise23]

Intersectionalists.

[@redd1911]

Who gets to decide what history should or shouldn't be taught? But more importantly, why does one think it shouldn't be taught?

[@olliemck60]

the rich and powerful.

[@Mon-thurim]

Just teach history accurately…

[@ashleybrooks-lawrence5972]

“It was an odd place for a bunch of Marxists... Most of us who were there have gone on to become prominent critical race theorists." --Richard Delgado, CRT founder, interview for University of Seattle Law School of Law, regarding the first symposium for what would become CRT “Unlike traditional civil rights… critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.” “[Critical Race theorists] are suspicious of another liberal mainstay, namely rights.” --Richard Delgado, 'Introduction to CRT' Weird that they never mention these parts!

[@AdrienLegendre]

In Delgado's book introduction to CRT there are also several pro-Marxist anti-capitalist political slogans.

[@hunterno7704]

Liberalism is a cancer, unless you were on a similar intellectual level as CRT researchers, you wouldn't know

[@robertwangenstein8569]

CRT = cathode ray tube. We no longer use them.

[@olliemck60]

which is why CRT is not taught in K-12 no matter what Fox, tRump, and other Neanderthals say.

[@babyamyxo-o6c]

I like this 😅Just as cathode ray tubes are outdated, this 1970s framework feels outdated too.

[@chrism3790]

It's truly puzzling to me how people think that obsessing over race is the way to fix racism.

[@hisroyalpimpnesssirisaacal7044]

EXACTLY! THANK YOU! 💯

[@imandan1966]

teaching is not obsessing.

[@chrism3790]

@@imandan1966 we all know what racism is. Thinking EVERYTHING is racist is not teaching anything.

[@imandan1966]

@@chrism3790 So that's what you think CRT is eh? Thinking everything is racist? You need to do a bit of research and get back to us. Run along

[@chrism3790]

@@imandan1966 ahh, really? This is straight out of wikipedia: "CRT scholars argue that [...] the liberal notion of U.S. law as "neutral" plays a significant role in maintaining a racially unjust social order, where formally color-blind laws continue to have racially discriminatory outcomes." So the fact that the constitution is neutral and color-blind is, according to CRT, racist. The blatant contradiction is pretty hilarious. It reminds me of what Orwell wrote: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". CRT is a flat out rejection of the meritocracy that built modern democracies, it ignores personal and cultural accountability in favor of scapegoating and victimhood mentality. It promotes the idea that race is the primary driver for most outcomes in life, even in systems that have been refined over time to be as neutral as possible. I refuse to believe that, it's a loser's mentality. And I am a Guatemalan immigrant. Maybe you need to take a closer look at what you're supporting. Nobody is saying racism doesn't exist or that it hasn't had an impact on modern society. But it isn't the foundation of it nor should people pretend that it is.

[@mj_b23]

This is a long-winded non-explanation of crt. Way to go.

[@michaelpcoffee]

"Expert": riiiiiight.... CRT literally says that the race war is good and necessary; that peace and freedom and equality before the law are evils to be opposed and abolished. What's not to like?

[@malte1984]

about that last point she made I strongly believe that there is a big difference between teaching "those white people back then were evil" and "those white people back then were evil, you are white so you are also evil" and CRT seems to propagate the later narrative and I don't agree with that. I find it absolutely sad and frustrating that people are like:"you disagree with CRT therefore you don't want racism to end" I do want racism to end and I am all about facing the cultural past and admit that there were horrible things done by people one is probably even related to (believe me, I know what I am talking about, I am a german and my family has a Nazi past...) but I highly doubt that CRT will help with that. I really try to like it and see the good in it but every time I read into it it just sounds racist as heck to me...

[@mikemanners5565]

anti racist = anti white

[@michellehouston9281]

Morgan Freeman said :the best way to stop racism is to stop talking about it."

[@shlobs422]

As a person of color, I utterly reject the notion that I am oppressed and the system is against me. America is still the land of opportunity where you should be judged by the content of your character and not the color of your skin. CRT is teaching young kids who lack any sense of self identity that they are victims of a corrupt system when in reality the system works just fine if you are willing to stay in school and work hard. My dad came here with nothing and now all of his children have doctorate degrees and make over 6 figures. Get an education/job training, dont have kids until you can afford to take care of them and don't break any laws. Life in America is easy if you do just those three things.

[@ElCharroNegro2023]

Fun fact: in the 2020 national census, due to strong pressure from activists from the United States, the Afro population of Mexico was counted for the first time, turning out to be 1% of the total ... and that was when many Mexicans found out that the black Mexican exists and that there was slavery in Mexico. It is very rare to see a black population, since they live segregated in specific communities only on the coasts of the country.

[@slevinchannel7589]

CRT is meant to teach Stuff that needs to be known and is largely unknown. Like what a colossial failure the War-on-Drugs is and how r-cist Policies and History have always been. The hrsh fact is that most Americans have no clue where the current Chaos comes from and blame them on Random Things. Keyword being Random. Learning where Laws and Policies and stuff like 'Redlining' comes from and to be more precise: Learn the stuff mentioned in the much-acclaiemd video 'The History Class you AAAAlways Skipped' by Veteran "Knowing Better" is crucial af. All Experts agree and its even an OLD SAYING: Those who dont learn about History are DOOMED to repeat itself. Learning what Damage Biden did 50 Years ago is as important or arguably more important than learning wha he did this Week.

[@ElCharroNegro2023]

@@slevinchannel7589 Mmmm maybe that's why there are American BLM activists in Mexico, because here before you turn 10 years old, you already know that there was slavery in the United States, but I only found out that there was also slavery in Mexico when I researched that specific topic , because in no school do they teach you about slavery in Mexico, that is why there is a belief that the ""black Mexican"" does not exist and that is why when they leave the remote communities where they live, normally the police want arrest and deport them...in fact, they have been deported to Central America by mistake on many occasions.

[@gorkyd7912]

@@slevinchannel7589 CRT does not teach history. If it was history it wouldn't be called a "theory." The only history that is brought up in CRT is that which supports the preconceived notion that those in power are an evil "other" that those without power must fight against. The purpose is divisiveness and revolution. People who call it a "neo-Marxist" doctrine are not pulling that out of their rear-end, the concept of a class of the powerful bourgeois who are evil and a class of poor oppressed workers who are righteous is over a hundred years old, and reframing this as a racial struggle is not new either. Because the US is one of the most racially diverse nations on earth, the USSR, North Korea, China and Cuba have all had long-standing policies of enlarging the racial divide in the US. In this sense, CRT is DEEPLY anti-American. You will never learn in a CRT about whites being enslaved in Northern Africa or anywhere else. You won't hear about native tribes taking slaves in raids. Every historic fact, of the few they will teach, has been curated to support the paradigm of evil whiteness oppressing the poor black and brown.

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@gorkyd7912 Ah, ok, so you dont know the Defintion of the word Theory. So? Whats that supposed to tell us other than, just like Climate-Change-Deniers, who literally TODAY gave me the LITERAL SAME ARGUMENT, you do not know much about a Topic but that wont stop you EVER from talking about it?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@gorkyd7912 ...So your understanding of CRT is not even on the level of random-youtuber "Some More News", huh?

[@robbase5235]

I support NLM NO LIVES MATTER There you go, we're all equal now. You're welcome.

[@KevinBReynolds]

How about we leave CRT out of it and just teach history, you know, actual, factual, history, especially when it comes to laws passed and the results of those laws? It's not opinion if you're just recounting what actually happened and the effects those laws have had. Even those laws meant to address inequality concerns. Interesting that they had to do that in the first place, no?

[@The-Real-Monkey-D-Luffy]

This sounds like a very reasonable model to me.

[@b1gS0Wh4t]

Not interesting. Thats the point of the push back

[@olliemck60]

Duh, that is what they are doing, CRT is not taught in K-14. Did you not notice that in the legislation it rarely mentions CRT by name, because CRT is not taught in K-12.

[@iainrobb2076]

If we're really going to be honest about history, we have to acknowledge (in light of the racial group predominantly responsible for pushing CRT) who actually started off the Transatlantic slave trade. We have to acknowledge how the slaves were acquired in the first place (being at least mostly slaves already acquired during tribal warfare by other blacks), the very small percentage of Southerners who actually owned slaves, that emancipated blacks owned slaves too, and the history of enslavement of whites also, especially during the Barbary slave trade but also during American history. That will never happen, though. Instead we take sole blame for everything. Incdentally, most black people in the US are not descended from slaves, but are descended from blacks who came there after the passing of the Hart Celler Act. The Hart Celler Act was the work of the exact same group of people responsible for inventing CRT, who also originated the Transatlantic slave trade. Regardless, even if most blacks in America were really descended from slaves, it doesn't change the fact they currently enjoy a far higher standard of living than they would had their ancestors remained in Africa. A number of Scots and Irish worked in the plantations also, but you never hear about those descended from Scots and Irish in the States constantly demanding special treatment and reparations.

[@The-Real-Monkey-D-Luffy]

@@iainrobb2076 Fire

[@brucelachniet8698]

The Disturbing Truth About Breeding Farms During Slavery

[@billystanton1522]

Crt puts socio-political narrative and emotional rhetoric over reason. It's a flawed concept from its definitions, its philosophical foundation and it hurts more than helps. It should be discarded

[@humesspoon3176]

Do explain more

[@billystanton1522]

@@humesspoon3176 it uses stretched out definitions that include de facto in order to arrive at a predetermined conclusion that any dispararity along racial lines is systemic, institutional or structural racism. It assumes every disparity is due to discrimination. It offers no evidence to back up its assumptions or claims in this area except the rare, really poor statistical analysis. It seeks equity over equal opportunity. I could go on and on, but it boils down to unsubstantiated assumptions based on bad definitions that ultimately serve no utility in solving the problems of race

[@humesspoon3176]

@@billystanton1522 Where in the world do you get this from (in that it assumes that every disparity is due to discrimination)? There's evidently a difference between indicating every disparity exists due to discrimination and also intently focusing on a few topics that may be strained by racism.

[@billystanton1522]

@@humesspoon3176 I'm getting it from the definitions of systemic, structural and institutional racism including de facto. When you create definitions this broad it means every disparity will be assumed discrimination.

[@humesspoon3176]

@@billystanton1522 Okay, so go ahead and fetch me the best definition you can find and we will see if the definitions inherently beg the question.

[@talbotdorr682]

So to end racism, they want to teach little kids how the world is actually racist now, it was racist in the past, and we are all now inherently racist without even realizing it. And we are all actually separated because of our skin color? That sounds like racism to me 😂😂

[@Tr1xx]

Sounds good to me. Teach about racism from the past and recognize it on the present to prevent it in the future

[@1Jason]

@@Tr1xx MLK had a better approach. Judge people on the content of their character and not on their skin colour.

[@Tr1xx]

@@1Jason I think Malcom X did way more for black folk than MLK

[@lifefordummies]

Some people today that consider themselves antiracist say some of the most racist stuff I have ever heard and think it is the opposite!

[@1Jason]

@@Tr1xx If everyone followed MLKs advice(stop focusing on race all the time), we would have a much better world. Unfortunately many people want racism to continue because they like being “victims”.

[@S1LLY_C0ST4_L0V3R]

I feel like America is like those loud, obnoxious protesters at the library while China is that asian guy who went "Hey! This is library!"

[@MrGamelover23]

@Anton Chigurh why would China try to invade us, what do they gain from it? They already make all of our stuff, and movies get censored for them, I think they already got us by the economic balls, what more could they want?

[@SR-nu2hs]

@@MrGamelover23 To be the ruling power. Can't believe you're naivete. China never create nor develop anything. They only steal from America.

[@TheInvstg8r]

Can we help communities be getting 100% grad rates first?

[@imyourdaddy5822]

@Anna Murray Douglass - Abolitionist it's not, that's just something Twitter Karens made up

[@techclass1896]

One of the biggest issues of CRT that I have experienced is labeling poor decisions of others in history as being "systemic" to others based on the fact that they are paler. They claim to fight "whiteness" or really anything related to what is considered to be part of the "majority culture", instead of saying that something is right or wrong regardless of your supposed "race". Ironically some groups like those of Scottish/Irish heritage were not considered to be "white" in the past because of poverty. At some point or another we need to be able to identify people as American citizens which come in every hue. Yes, there are definitely flaws in history which can be addressed in one class (have one serious discussion at a specific agreed age level that says picking on others based on any ethnicity is wrong). However, all through junior high, high school and college, the instructors in any sort of class related to social studies have been determined to show the idea of white=bad and everything else needs to be accepted as a cultural difference. Even when differences include belittling women, screaming obscenities at the person working in customer service because you can get away with it because they are "white" or just making false claims/accusations because you disagree on something as minor as your favorite flavor is considered "okay" as long as the person on the receiving end appears to be of European heritage. This shows how incredibly immature our society is because the "rules" are based on something the person has zero control over. What are paler people supposed to do? Get free cans of spray tan? Yet anything that identifies with another culture is consider "cultural appropriation", even if it was a gift from a friend (like an accessory) who happened to be from that culture. We generally understand it would not be fair to blame a son or daughter if a parent does something illegal/immoral, yet paler people are blamed for the actions of a few that many don't even know personally or potential relatives from several generations back.

[@aurora9252]

You're so innocent. It was just your ancestors who decimated native americans and enslaved africans. You just reap the benefits. We live in a society therefore we work systematic. You're either racist or anti-racist..

[@ricardokojin7]

@@aurora9252 "anti-racists" are the most racist people out there. Plus , some communities really need to look into their own habits before blaming everyone else.

[@wuzumane]

@@aurora9252 nah sometimes you need to take responsibility yourself

[@Christopher.Colberg]

What benefits does he have over an9other person systematically? I'm not talking about someone individually being racist.

[@techclass1896]

@@Christopher.Colberg Are you talking about the main speaker or a person being accused of having systematic benefits in CRT? If the speaker or someone who is considered to be part of an "ethnic minority": there is a heavy emphasis on claiming to be "inclusive" by hiring or giving out scholarships to what appears to be a variety of different backgrounds. (It looks good on paper and in advertising and not ticking off the boxes to show inclusiveness is frowned upon.) Even if a person looking to higher attempts to only pick qualified individuals, some people may be overlooked simply based on not wanting a company or school to appear to be "too white" because that can lead to loss of funding. Even if the vast majority of individuals who have qualifications fall into a few ethnic groups, the company can lose credibility via the media very quickly because they didn't hire enough of a variety. If a person being accused through CRT, the claim is usually that the system was originally set up by white males (despite several adjustments made over the years to try to compensate for any flaws, people will throw out good policies with bad). Some want to claim that simply having American English as the standard in schools instead of having the option of a tribal language from every continent (nice in theory, but it makes creating everything from textbooks to testing material more complicated and gives underpaid teachers an even larger stack of work to do) gives a "white advantage" to those raised with English as their first language.

[@atvjtghftyvht5687]

As a mixed race person, I see that critical race theory should be taught, especially in southern states and in religious schools. I find that there are too many loopholes for racist people in a society that is still holding on to their discriminatory practices. This is especially relevant for mixed race people that are being targeted simply for being mixed race.

[@way2hezy869]

Fr man

[@toms8393]

CRT is an ideology that needs to be HEAVILY scrutinized. The amount of disgusting racially charged remarks that are now been hurled at white people as of late is astonishing. Shifting hate does not solve hate.

[@way2hezy869]

@@toms8393 facts I think the best solution to stop racism is to separate. Like legit like one race goes their path and the other race goes their way. It’s the only way, that means no more racism, no more arguments. Let’s go back to the way things were when both races didn’t know they existed in the same planet.

[@mimiwatching]

You are soo correct. I agree with you

[@PryingBlaze.]

I too am a mixed race person: Irish, Danish, Blackfoot and Cherokee. Irish people are also a hated people by many. So, first off, to call CRT a Religion is ludicrous. Because a RELIGION requires a god. Now, I would say "What god would CRT worship?" Careful here...

[@aceyourhole9538]

I think it starts at the home 3/4 of black men walk out on their families and leave mothers and the streets to raise their kids Address the real issue here

[@lovelyAce21]

I watched this whole video and nothing was explained to me lol I still don’t. Understand what it is in that alone is a problem

[@marsking443]

I'll break it down. CRT is Education based on the racism of America and its effects on Americans. Thats an elementary school explanation I can't get any simpler than that.

[@anonymoususer4376]

@@marsking443 what people want to know is what exactly is racist? if you're saying "America" it must be a law or policy on the books today that discriminates against a certain race. I've never heard a good answer to this and I think a lot of people would change their view if they could actually read something that proves CRT. If you did, a lot of people would jump out against this law or policy and fight for it's removal. It can't be "everything". That's like saying it's like the wind...everywhere. Nothing constructive can happen unless specifics are given.

[@lewislee9201]

@@marsking443 With respect, CRT is not what you said it is. CRT starts from the (false) position that systemic racism is endemic in society, and that all inequalities between races are due to this systemic racism. CRT says that society has been constructed by whites to benefit them and keep everyone else down. Black people therefore have no chance to get ahead in life because the cards are stacked against them from the beginning due to this all pervasive systemic racism. Although CRT calls itself a theory, it has does not deserve that distinction, since any evidence against the presence of systemic racism, any suggestion that there might be other explanations for inequalities, is dismissed out of hand. The existence of systemic racism is an axiom in CRT, not a hypothesis which could be either proven or disproven by investigation. The presence of successful minorities such as Asians and black immigrants from African countries, of course shows the basic assumption of CRT to be false.

[@davidbolen8982]

Max Horneiker, an avowed marxist, used the term “critical theory,” first in a 1937 book. All critical theory aims to divide and destroy because ALL critical theory has but ONE truth: all history is oppressor versus oppressed. It is a simple, myopic and ignorant way to view anything. The CRT religion must be brought out, publicly mocked and executed.

[@Skinnymarks]

@@lewislee9201 That's not how assumptions work in frameworks. Like in evolution it assumes life exists. It has nothing to say how life came to exist. If we prove that life came from aliens or God or a primordial soup it wouldn't change evolution at all or its assumptions. If you could disprove life exists then you would also disprove evolution pretty fast. Same with CRT. It dosent dismiss evidence on whether systemic racism exist. Yes it assumes as much. But if you could provide evidence that systemic racism dosent exist you would instantly destroy CRT and it would be a perfect argument to debunk CRT at every turn. But you wouldn't be doing CRT you would be doing pretty basic logic. It's odd that you don't understand this. If we actually went into a discussion about systemic racism it would be incredibly difficult to disprove it. After all black people are being arrested for cleaning up their yard and working at their job for "trespassing" which is a silly law. Because everyone trespass almost all the time. It's simply not narrow enough to define what counts as "trespassing" so it's a great excuse to criminalize black people existing in public spaces.

[@amberlyn28]

My favorite subject in school was math, and I now realize why. No opinions, no bias, no favoritism, only facts that cannot be disputed.

[@ashwin372]

not learning about how our ancestors lived and the mistakes they made will lead to the repetition of the same mistakes

[@catharperfect7036]

@@ashwin372 If we're so evil then why does every racial group kick down our borders to get as close to us as humanly possible? And then complain when they're not allowed.

[@paulsnow]

Maybe someone can help me. Consider Theory in the context and standards of science and scholarship: 1) A theory is a well-substantiated explanation of an aspect of the natural world that can incorporate laws, hypotheses and facts. 2) A theory not only explains known facts; it also allows scientists to make predictions of what they should observe if a theory is true. Scientific theories are testable. New evidence (historical or current) should be compatible with a theory. If it isn't, the theory is refined or rejected. If critical race theory really is a theory, then what are its predictions? What could one observe that would cause us to reject it? I've not seen any article on CRT that describes its predictions, lays out what observations would negate the theory, and demonstrates that CRT actually models what we observe in society. If critical race theory isn't a theory in the sense we would expect from science and scholarship, then it is something else. An ideology? A religion? CRT theorists themselves assert "The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. The movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up but places them in the broader perspective that includes economics, history, setting, group and self-interest, and emotions and the unconscious. Unlike traditional civil rights discourse, which stresses 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." Critical Race Theory (Third Edition): An Introduction, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, 2017 (first edition 2001).

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

paul snow The quotation 'from the horse's mouth' is more revealing than anything I'd seen or heard before. Of special interest to me is the rejection of incrementalism, the questioning of liberal and Enlightenment values. No wonder then that some see CRT as subversive, although I don't detect any hint of Marxism here. As a Christian I see nothing wrong with questioning liberal and Enlightenment values, tough many of them have proven practical value for governance. As for incrementalism, it is often better than doing nothing at all. More important is the question of whether the ends justify the means. The traditional civil rights movement was certainly correct in rejecting violence.

[@paulsnow]

@@jesusislordsavior6343 Marxism focuses on power in society, with defined oppressors and the oppressed. The Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. With CRT, we have Whites and Blacks. Note how this is slipped in so slyly you missed it: "...the relationship among race, racism, and power." CRT defines the problems of society as actions between races. By pointing out the issue is racism, CRT defines whiteness as the oppressive power in society as the cause for systemic racism in all institutions, with blacks (minorities, but mostly blacks) as the oppressed by the power of the oppressors. Racism without power would not be a problem... Without power racism cannot make society systemically in favor of whites. Note that as a Christian (I am assuming something here from your user name) that you are told not to care about power in society. John 18:36 The entire focus of Matthew 5 and 6, and the parable of the sheep and the goats of Matthew 25 is that you are to fix yourself, and be the solution for the world. You are not responsible for fixing the world. Case in point, CRT would have us ban the cross as an unjustified brutality just as they have marched against police brutality (something far short of crucifixion). Jesus asks its followers to take up their cross and follow him. Matthew 16:24

[@potatomongrel]

@@paulsnow Just ignore verses that are ok with slavery (Exodus 21: 1-4) You can own a Hebrew slave for 6 or 7 years. On the 7th he can go free and owe you nothing for it. If ya bought him single he can leave single. If he came married he leaves with his wife. If you gave him a wife during his time with you, you can keep his wife and kids. It only gets worse as you continue after that. ( 1 Peter 2:18) Which basically states if you are a slave don't be a bad one even if the owner is really abusive. Only read the ones about Moses freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian rule. Yikes even when at least Paul says it outright it's still bigoted. (Timothy 1 9-10) Which basically says the law isn't for the just. It's just for gays,lesbians ,slave owners, pimps,perverts,sex trafickers, hoes and or whatever is fucked up.

[@olliemck60]

Here is a CRT prediction - If we do not recognize and rid ourselves of systemic racism and repair its damages, we will always have systemic racial problems and a permanent black underclass. As for incrementalism, it has not been incremental. We have had this problem for 400 years, with little progress; especially in the last 150 years. And from 1619 to today Black people are a discriminated against, subordinated group.

[@paulsnow]

@Middle Class If incrementaliam doesn't work, how do you get rid of "systematic racism"? Isn't the only solution a complete burn down of all institutions? What does CRT predict will happen after that?

[@andocommando3071]

I wonder how many people would change their stance on this if they knew CRT is not being taught in K-12 schools.

[@MikeNapoli1989]

I was thinking that too.

[@dyjgduonfdy]

Then you shouldn't have a problem banning it from being taught in public schools if it's not being taught in the first place

[@andocommando3071]

@@dyjgduonfdy Why is there a need to ban a subject that isn't being taught there in the first place, or even intended to be studied by anyone below a tertiary level?

[@tabiripetrovich517]

I lived in the USA for years and i must say that yes, there is racism in your country. Its hidden and it denied but it exists on full scale. Im white skinned but not english and i felt it on both sides

[@amazingspiderfatty7375]

You comment is a classic hasty generalization fallacy.

[@tabiripetrovich517]

@@amazingspiderfatty7375 and your comment is classic avoidance.

[@amazingspiderfatty7375]

@@tabiripetrovich517 No I just do not go to other Countries like let's say Germany and just assume that all Germans love bratwurst because I witnessed a handful of Germans eating Bratwurst. America is not racist but there are racist people here. You made a hasty generalization fallacy like the example I gave above with Germans and bratwurst but for assuming America is racist because you met a handful of racist people in America.

[@tabiripetrovich517]

@@amazingspiderfatty7375 i would invite for a coffee and explain you what i had seen and experienced. Even though - i know its pointless. :) You real whites, who stole this quality from us, also white-skinned ones, decided long ago to employ all the tribal methods to dominate the people around you. As per buddhist teachings: the smart is quiet. The wise is silent. The stupid argues. Here we go. I guess im on the stupid side. Because this convo makes no sense. The only thing you react on is when the carped is pulled from under your superiority.

[@amazingspiderfatty7375]

@@tabiripetrovich517 I wish you would break down your statement after the smiley face and look at how fundamentally racist it is. People in America have developed a culture of seeing people for who they are and not judge them solely based off the color of their skin and it took a Civil War and brave souls to get the Civil Rights Act and many more progressions for all Citizens in this Country to reach a more equal society under the rule of law. Race and culture are not intrinsic, they have nothing to do with each other. Culture is the manifestation of ideas supported by common interest and common goals by the people not by their skin color.

[@missionman4539]

Propaganda is a good way of explaining our public school system these days !

[@sned_dunes]

Everything will be about race in the future 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@Mr._Moderate]

If by future you mean now then yes

[@Cobbido]

@@Mr._Moderate What about admixture from what are different species present in different populations?

[@marsking443]

How dare they teach accurate American History in American schools?! We need to keep our children blissfully ignorant!!!

[@sned_dunes]

@@marsking443 "Accurate american history" or Marxism?

[@Mr._Moderate]

@@Cobbido huh?

[@ahmedsiddiquedalam4111]

It amazes us outsiders how the social fabric US, Canada, and the western world is slowly collapsing.

[@user-os6xz3ig9f]

All people need to do is research The Frankfurt School before WW2 to find the origins of Critical Theory.

[@skinnie2838]

Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by leftists who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on Election Day.

[@user-os6xz3ig9f]

@@skinnie2838 They only show up when there's an election, like now when the Dems are invading Puerto Rico.

[@retrospective77]

@@skinnie2838 Nice bit of victim blaming there. I guess racism today has nothing to do with racist systems or the hangover from them (or even racist people in general). I find it hilarious when anyone tries to make the argument that racism only exists because those on the left keep bringing it up, its like, do you even live in the real world? Do you talk to people in minority communities? They'll tell you how it is for them on a daily basis,. News Flash: it ain't the 'leftists'.

[@skinnie2838]

@@retrospective77 Most of the racism we see is perpetuated by the left. If it was done by the other side we wouldnt be seeing all of these hoaxes everywhere. Nice try though lefty.

[@retrospective77]

@@skinnie2838 can you back that up at all? Sounds like some lefty hurt your little feelings in the past and now instead of taking a rational approach to serious issues in society, you instead will take a clown stance and blame 'the left' 😂. A long hard look in the mirror is overdue son, get to it.

[@johnpagoto1054]

Critical Class Theory would be more accurate

[@tristenvukelich5280]

That wouldn’t bring awareness to the real problem. They want us focusing on our differences among colors in the same class

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Bingo. We'll never have this taught in school so long as the same class parroting CRT wants to lessen educational standards and revive segregation.

[@oceanbreeze6812]

Class, race, skin color, gender (and the list goes on) are all used for divide and conquer by the elites. Their latest edition is vax passports into their dirty bag of tricks. Humans are so distracted and alienated that they cant see the forest from the trees.

[@jsin22366322]

Those who do not heed history is doomed to repeat it.

[@JohnSmith-pg9ns]

The pro Confederate racist MAGA wouldn't mind repeating it

[@mayaaven491]

“…a positive white identity is an impossible goal. White identity is inherently racist; white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.” From White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo, p. 149.

[@Tiger_Woods]

Critical race theory needs to be taught on all levels . 👍🏾👍🏾 we will continue to push it

[@liadam2146]

Nothing is "needed" to be taught except the Gospel. as long as someone has the Gospel in them, they know God loves us all.

[@lineheuston-hanley7048]

I guess some people have a hard time dealing with reality. We all need to learn this.

[@adifferentpointofview1404]

It is amazing how the far conservative right has completely created a fictitious hysteria around Critical Race Theory. The knock out punch that I produce when discussing this topic is did you actually take the time out to read what Critical Race Theory is? Or did you just listen to the narrative produced by a very subjective FOX news. I mean if your going to be so angry and emotional over something to the point where your screaming at School Board Meetings, getting teachers fired, and passing laws to ban it, at least take the time to know what it is. Its not being taught in K-12 Schools. There is not a State Department of Education that has Critical Race Theory anywhere in its curriculum. It is a class that was taught in a select few law schools in the 1970s, so this idea that Schools are banning it is ludicrous because how can you ban something that doesn't exist. I did a video of this on my Channel. Please watch.

[@lineheuston-hanley7048]

@@adifferentpointofview1404 I know, right? I seen this man being interviewed say he was completely against it and when they asked him what it was, he said he didn't know exactly but that it wasn't anything good. I dont know exactly what it is completely but I want to take the time to learn what it is. I'm in Canada and of course we have racism here but I don't think it runs as deep as it does in the states, from what I see in the bews and TV. I didn't think there was any racism at all in Canada but since George Floyd and the BLM movement, im finding otherwise since we had a few protests here as well. You can't fault a person for not knowing but you can fault someone for knowing and turning your head away. I'm interested now and committed.

[@gorkyd7912]

@@lineheuston-hanley7048 It's racially divisive propaganda that tries to divide people by race using a few hand-picked historic facts (ignoring most) and drawing broad societal conclusions from those. I.e, everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence was white, they owned slaves, therefore the US is a white supremacist nation. Complete fallacy, but it works on children who still trust the authority in the room. This has been going on since the 50s as an export of the global Communism movement. The original goal was to weaken the US, the principle enemy of global Communism at the time, by strumming up racial hatreds. The goal right now is basically the same; to tear down the "inherently racist" America and rebuild it with more equity, diversity, and inclusion. When you ask anyone what the new system is, it's pretty much always some form of socialism with an emphasis on empowering a diverse new goverment to solve whatever the scariest problem happens to be at the moment (climate change).

[@r.c.christian1198]

Themes of CRT as listed in "Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography" by Delgado and Stefancic: 1. Critique of liberalism 2. Storytelling/"naming one's own reality" 3. Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress (1619 project; anti-incrementalism) 4. Greater understanding of the underpinnings of race and racism ("systemic" racism found everywhere they look) 5. Structural Determinism (where anti-meritocracy comes from) 6. Race, sex, class and their intersections ("intersectionality"/queer theory) 7. Essentialism and anti-essentialism (identity politics) 8. Cultural nationalism/separatism (including "black insurrection")

[@desertshadow72]

So the democratic platform

[@olliemck60]

And? 1. liberalism has not worked; it is a revolving door of progress forward and egress because of the severe identity politics in this country since 1619. 2. storytelling is an attempt at awareness and empathy, the macro damage is supported by facts/reality. 3. American history is gradually losing its revisionist propaganda, but unfortunately, the old revisionism is being replaced by new propaganda such as "post-racial America". 4. there is systemic racism/bias in all of our institutions, and its results are everywhere. 5. this country has never been a meritocracy. Every benefit and opportunity has been directed at elites or Europeans 6. what is wrong with intersectionality - you cannot fight racism without addressing its intersectionality 7. this country has always been politically divided; a never-ending civil war. it has nothing to do with CRT. 8. Cultural nationalism - seems to be the continuing purview of the right, to wit the Charlottesville March and the Jan 6 insurrection, with white supremacists chanting "Jews will not replace us" and the segregated nature of this country - black folk did not segregate it! Crt is an advanced interdisciplinary construct used to analyze the public impact of policies, practices, and laws - nothing more and nothing less.

[@r.c.christian1198]

@@olliemck60 "Middle Class" is TRIGGERED

[@olliemck60]

@@r.c.christian1198 "R.C. Christian is OWNED!

[@olliemck60]

They are not CRT themes but your slant, very dishonest but not surprising.

[@craigfowler7098]

I am an expert and can definitively define CRT as total BS

[@rajkoelguapo12]

Using the George Floyd incident as an example of racism is begging the question. First, you have to establish that the motivation for said incident was race-driven. I haven't seen any evidence that supports that assertion (which seemed to be the default reaction by many non critical thinkers). The fact that these "experts" are using it as an example of "systemic racism" without having even established that race was a factor is highly problematic and shows you where this country is with regard to this issue.

[@catharperfect7036]

George Floyd was a violent career criminal who swallowed a heap of fentanyl...

[@RoseColoredIris]

The more I try to find a clear and concise explanation of CRT the more videos I find that seem meander around the meaning. I'm still not entirely sure what it is or how it is used in education. When I went to school it never really felt like my teachers were sugar coating American history. I learned about the atrocities of slavery and injustices handed out by America's forefathers, like the Trail of Tears for example. The best explanation I've heard is that it is a view that some laws, even to this day, were created to specifically target minorities and that they should be taught in a way that focuses on that fact. Nixon's "war on drugs" comes to mind. And that with those laws still being enforced today it creates an environment that helps breed prejudice, bigotry, and inequality. Is that a proper explanation?

[@RoseColoredIris]

I would also like to add that, personally, I don't think the three officers that stood and did nothing as George Floyd was slowly chocked to death was due to there prejudice towards black people but more of an example of the Milgram Experiment. I feel like they were just too scared to challenge authority. A bit of the bystander effect as well. That's just my opinion though.

[@Ichifate]

@@RoseColoredIris Your explanation is actually pretty solidly close. It is the teaching of how race has played a role in our american society. A lot of the problems the black community faces today can be linked back to presidents in the 70s and 80s. The value of it is so that white people are not blind to the fact that injustice in america didn't end after slavery. I mean just look at how asians were treated during ww2, it didn't matter if you were japanese or not, a lot of families who weren't even japanese were thrown into internment camps. The families who were Japanese werr suffering for fear that they were spies but we can't exactly see to this day why that was necissary. If we are the best country in the world and the most free, we need to acknowledge when in history we have not reflected that.

[@RoseColoredIris]

@@Ichifate And maybe I'm just speaking from my very narrow experience but I feel like schools, at least my schools, did a pretty decent job of explaining the injustice of American policies. I learned about the Japanese internment camps in school. I was shown the picture of that awful woman screaming at black kids when they started integrating schools. I feel like my schools did teach about racism and prejudice in American government. My schooling was actually one of the biggest influences in my disillusionment of America(and Christianity BTW). Maybe that's just my school though. I mean, they don't even teach evolution in some schools, so...

[@Ichifate]

@@RoseColoredIris Yeah, in some schools they don't even teach evolution. In some schools Columbus is held up as a hero. It seems to be more of s subject with those schools. But from what I know, CRT goes into more of the specifics so that when you see a black teen shooting and killing another black teen on the news over some gang related stuff, you know that isn't about color, but about what area they come from and the history of how their bloodline was stuck in such a cycle.

[@karlbmiles]

@@Ichifate Only 120,000 people were sent to relocation camps, and only interned for a couple of years. Only Japanese who lived on the West coast and were in position to be spies were relocated inland. Japanese spies did assist the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The only American citizens interned were the American-born children of their Japanese parents. They could leave the camp if they could find a job that wasn't on the west coast where Japan might invade. In fact, many of the Japanese joined the U.S. Army to fight in Europe. 4,000 of them left the camp to attend college. It was very unfair what happened, they lost homes and businesses, but it was a World War, and there are plenty of more poignant stories than the people sent to relocation camps.

[@jascam1]

Those who are of the privileged class (whites) in America will fight tooth and nails against narratives such as CRT; which would bring to light the institutionalized/systemic racial inequities on which America was founded and continue to prosper.

[@kikenaround]

Nah, I’m an Indian living in America, I completely disagree with this BS.

[@SharkSjE]

It's amazing how long they got away with white washing our history, they should tell the truth. They will learn it one way or another, why lie about how minorities have been treated by the system.

[@lvincent8843]

Racial inequities are not being kept in the dark. Everyone knows there are disparities between different groups of people, including different races of people. This is expected in any free society. Critics of CRT are simply asking for examples of racial inequities that are caused by racism. If a racial disparity is caused by racist actions of the white majority then point to the racial disparity and provide the evidence that led to your conclusion that it was caused by racist actions of the white majority.

[@AdrienLegendre]

YOu confuse Black History with CRT.

[@fearitselfpinball8912]

I used to work in a kitchen as a sous chef. My boss, the chef, (and the GM) weren’t white (I was). We worked together pretty well and I think we were all aware that whatever we let pass in terms of substance abuse, racism, sexism, etc. was going to be a part of the kitchen culture. When we were clear on what wasn’t acceptable people figured out pretty quickly where they were and what was the social norm. One employee being reprimanded or called out had a knock-on effect on the culture. You didn’t have to preach. Word got around. It’s a little social microcosm-just a small sample-but it really made me thoughtful about the connections between ‘leadership responsibility’, ‘specific accountability’ and ‘systemic/cultural norms’. When I think about the LA riots, for example, it’s hard to imagine that the failure to hold the cops who beat Rodney King on camera responsible (at the legislative level) could do anything but broadly condone racism in the culture of policing. The verdict clarified the behaviour as basically excusable. It’s shocking. On the other hand, had they been held strictly accountable (even with some severity) it’s hard to imagine no knock-on effect on police culture. Groups and group dynamics are a part of the picture but I think there’s a necessary way of _relating_ the role of specific, personal accountability (via leadership) to the shaping of cultural norms. In other words, we may not have to take an either/or view of systemic problems and personal accountability.

[@derrickbell24]

- As far as I'm concerned, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What problem did Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman and other legal scholars wrestle with in the 1970s that eventually led to the founding of the Critical Race Theory movement? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Name three of the founders of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did it mean? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? Name one of the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real, or is race a social construct? Is racism a normal feature of society? Is racism embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality? Is racism confined to a few “bad apples?” Is racism codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy? Why does Critical Race Theory reject claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness?” Does the systemic nature of racism bear primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality? Are people’s everyday lives relevant to scholarship? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? How did you do?

[@TangiersIntrigue]

How is this not getting more upvotes?

[@akadopeboi]

This is so important. As a half Polish, half Jamaican guy. It was such an almost... mind shattering event learning about everything on my own, right at the dawn of the internet. It was like being in an episode of black mirror. Why did they hide so much pain? Just to enforce or reinforce some idea that my jamaican mother is lesser than my blonde hair blue eyed father. Its just so... below what we actually could be. Critical Race Theory is very important. UNLESS you want to enforce a lie, then thats a diff. story.

[@bosanskenaufalevic7370]

You can learn that, but not on school

[@michaelpcoffee]

"More important, as critical race theorists we adopt a stance that PRESUMES that racism has contributed to ALL contemporary manifestations of group advantage and disadvantage along RACIAL lines, including differences in income, imprisonment,health, housing, education, political representation, and military service. Our history calls for this PRESUMPTION." "Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment" by Matsuda, Lawrence III, Delgado, and KIMBERLE' WILLIAMS CRENSHAW Those are their words from their intellectual papers: It is the entire foundation of the premise.

[@OpinionParade]

*Using Taxpayer Money to put up giant murals of George Floyd was/is absolutely disgusting.*

[@stevenwhite8936]

Wouldn't teaching this to grade schoolers make some students feel less than others? And I dont mean the guilt trip it tries to imply I mean the negativity it may reinforce to others. And people do many things to avert feeling guilt or being made to feel less than and lashing out is one of them !

[@cartooncottage2024]

🤨 No.

[@midwestthebest3967]

Huh

[@Ant90210]

This isn't even being taught in grade school. CRT is a college level course mainly Law students that take the course.

[@allbutperfect]

😂😂😂 what

[@wolfpack1507]

Black kids in my class say they are better than white people because white people are boring racist who all look the same.

[@imacock-gobbler7573]

“Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.” -Thomas Sowell

[@AdrienLegendre]

CRT is a perfect example.

[@navigatingel6104]

I like how this barely even explains what it is.

[@HardWorkpaysofff]

? They literally said crt is teaching u how to think and freely converse about racism in our society , a Major part of our history that impacts everyone todsy

[@Pronoodleeater126]

It’s explained clearly at :50 “a body of ideas and set of approaches to understand the history and the present of American society that looks at the way racial unfairness has been woven into the fabric of our institutions.” Slavery was racist and it was a real part of our history 156 yesrs ago. Segregation was racist and was a real part of our history 58 years ago. Systemic racism in our present day society is more obscure because there isn’t a clear “culprit” to blame or point fingers at that’s why CRT is difficult to grasp. Bottom line CRT is helping people understand how our history has influenced our present specifically in regards to race and the advantages and disadvantages of having a certain kind of skin color. It’s presenting the facts in a very logical and rational way.. Unlike BLM

[@davidjoseph5621]

There is no systemic racism. People are racist not the system. The problem is not with race but rather with culture.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

That is wrong. You being uninformed does not debunk Systemic-Racism. If anything, it proves it all the more because peopel are systemically misinformed. As proven in Cooooountless videos babout 'Americans not knowing American-History for Real'. Its a whole Trend. Countless covered it.

[@MrfunnyNacho]

Critical Race Theory draws on key characteristics/interpretations of historical events. When the people behind this education believe many of the famous killings by police weren't due to very simple mistakes like "resisting arrest" and don't have any experience in the history of how humans have restrained people...what can go wrong...they draw on the one thing that they can only see...a pervasive racial bias that is systemic to society. Call me a class reductionist' but I'd argue the overwhelming majority of "bias" we see today is mostly class struggle.

[@olliemck60]

well you are right, but we cannot wait for class victims to recognize that; power elites have always been able to get the victims of class bias to side with them against their own class victim interests. They would rather live white and poor in a racialized world than in a world with multiracial class equity. Over 60-70% of the confederate army were not slave owners but died to maintain and expand slavery because they could not live with the idea of living in a diverse world with racial equity.

[@MrfunnyNacho]

@@olliemck60 But why? When we ask the deeper questions all racist ideology is linked to class perception. Personally divided on CRT, I find there to be value in highlighting american history through the eyes of the impovershed/black human being. But thousands of factors and motivations get woven into this consensus idea of "Systemic racism" that dont apply. Especially when you're talking about what some would deem a society that could always be "inherently" capitalist or any system where there's winners and losers.

[@olliemck60]

@@MrfunnyNacho There is a concept in CRT called intersectionality, which says different populations can be subjected to bias for different reasons, and their remediation might need to be different when multiple biases are involved. So class is certainly a population with disparity caused by economics, unequal exchange, etc, but when it intersects with race that requires different remediation steps. For instance, a so-called lower-class white person comes into some money, they can change their class immediately, and even avail themselves of white institutional advantages; while a black person with money might not be able to buy a house, even though, they can afford it in certain neighborhoods, a black person will still get stopped by police, and questioned when banking, walking, driving, or BBQing. When there is a convergence of class and race, like a living wage let's go for it, otherwise black folk need to defeat racism as a priority. We welcome any help!

[@dboproductions2853]

It is so important to communicate history as it was and not through rose-colored vision. If we can see the past (free from distortion) we better learn lessons from what happened in the past. The elements that create tyranny can be dissolved. The trappings of hypocrisy can be foreseen. Most of all, we can absorb the tragedies (and the triumphs) of history from an emotionally accurate point of view. We're more likely to be kinder people if we see the brutality that arises from ignorance and indifference.

[@zzz-nu2re]

Lets look at history for what is was, not what we think it was based on a current perspective. Like u can look back at history and say everyone was so evil, violent and barbaric, then try to figure out why everyone was so evil and how each event had the intention of evil, but that's from a current day perspective and simply wrong.

[@TheyCallMeMaxwell]

Right.. that already exists... it's called History class.

[@dboproductions2853]

@@TheyCallMeMaxwell typically in a college class you'll get the latest information and the debate of concepts in question. I think the idea in question is making sure "history class" isn't rewritten to suit sensitivities over truth.

[@armandogavilan1815]

Yep we gotta portray yanks as the nazi they were and still are, biggest genocidal force ever on this planet, and still going at it, biggest treat to the planet right now.

[@zzz-nu2re]

@@armandogavilan1815 there's more slavery in the world now then ever before, just not where yanks live

[@aaaabbbbbcccccc]

@4:50 This is not what the bill says. It says they shall, *to the best of their ability*, explore such issues from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective. The key point here is *to the best of their ability*. The question on 'who decides' is therefore clear - it is the school, just as the school decides if the teacher is doing an adequate job in all other aspects of their teaching.

[@derrickbell24]

- As far as I'm concerned, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, you really don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion on the topic. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What problem did Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman and other legal scholars wrestle with in the 1970s that eventually led to the founding of the Critical Race Theory movement? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Name three of the founders of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did it mean? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? Name one of the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real, or is race a social construct? Is racism a normal feature of society? Is racism embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality? Is racism confined to a few “bad apples?” Is racism codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy? Why does Critical Race Theory reject claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness?” Does the systemic nature of racism bear primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality? Are people’s everyday lives relevant to scholarship? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? How did you do?

[@JamieLannyster]

what about the holocaust? what balanced perspectives will teacher's need to teach? will they show how the einsatzgruppen got too much PTSD so eichmann came up with death camps? Will they teach how the fuhrer may have been right about creating lebensraum?

[@davidrobertson5881]

The voters are getting tired of the racist Democrats. Let’s Go Brandon FJB

[@jacksonfox5812]

This literally doesn’t even explain CRT

[@hammy7253]

yes it does…

[@AlexeiRamotar]

Explain it then

[@hammy7253]

@@AlexeiRamotar Watch the video?? or do u have a hearing impediment…yall act slow on purpose when it comes to race and cant apply critical thinking skills to racism

[@AlexeiRamotar]

@@hammy7253 I was responding to Jackson Fox. Since they said that the video doesn't explain CRT, I am hoping they can define it better.

[@dudeman4184]

We teach to students that racism is systemic and woven into our laws rather than teaching them that racism is caused by individuals. Housing and the job market are heavily biased against minorities.

[@ttaayylloorrmmtt]

“Experts”

[@bud1239]

5:00 Complains about the Texas law requiring both sides of an issue being presented. Also wants to present 1-sided "authentic" narratives about history that are portrayed as being accurate.

[@mfenix911]

My problem with CRT is it lacks nuance. It focuses on the negative aspects of our country, ignores the good things on one side and the bad things on the other. History is not black and white, no pun intended, it's grey. Yes most white people were terrible to literally everyone else historically and hatred of them collectively was more or less justified. However, today most people are not racist and are inherently good. There were white people during the slave trade that helped free the slaves (like hundreds of thousands that died in the civil war to end slavery) and there were also black slave owners (the first slave owner in the country was a black man named Anthony Johnson). The point is, stop dividing people, pointing fingers, or focusing on negatives. History should be taught accurately without bias, acknowledging the good and bad things done by everyone involved, and we should learn from it and strive to do better in the future. The way to help non-white people in this country today is not by tearing white people down, and trying to punish them for crimes that happened before they were even born, but to work together as one people.

[@mecca777]

It's a CRITICAL ANALYSIS of the social dynamics and hierarchies as they pertain to race and race related social constructs. It's NOT a movement, it's not an ideology....its a very academic and dry conversation that takes place primarily among post graduates, law students political science majors, philosophers, social scientists.....not 12 year old kids. It is an extension of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt Tradition from Institute of Social Research.

[@imyourdaddy5822]

It's basically made up hogwash

[@iainrobb2076]

But it is an ideology. The Frankfurt School were fanatical Marxists.

[@AdrienLegendre]

"Critical theory" is a philosophy based on Marxism from the Frankfurt School. It is an ideology, a fixed set of beliefs not subject to revision by testing,n unlike a science.

[@siddharthachoudhury2021]

Humanities really is useless

[@xdfckt2564]

Then you have the programming aimed at kids.. in Hasbrows..

[@derrickbell24]

- As far as I'm concerned, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, you really don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion on the topic. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What problem did Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman and other legal scholars wrestle with in the 1970s that eventually led to the founding of the Critical Race Theory movement? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Name three of the founders of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did it mean? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? Name one of the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real, or is race a social construct? Is racism a normal feature of society? Is racism embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality? Is racism confined to a few “bad apples?” Is racism codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy? Why does Critical Race Theory reject claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness?” Does the systemic nature of racism bear primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality? Are people’s everyday lives relevant to scholarship? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? How did you do?

[@karlbmiles]

To understand "Critical Race Theory" you have to study "Critical Theory" as founded by communist Jewish sociology scholars of the 'Frankfurt School (Germany)' of the 1920's. Very simply, the theory is that you must be critical of a society if you hope to change it. In the case of the Frankfurt School, they wanted to make the society more accepting of communism and Jews. Of course "Critical Theory" backfired in Germany, it led to the rise of Adolf Hitler who unabashedly murdered communists and Jews with the support of the German people. The Theory is unchanged (other than adding 'Race' to the name) and is to work the same as the leftist apply the Theory in America. They begin by tearing down American society, everything you used to treasure is now bad, namely your white heritage, your Christian religion, your American history and exceptionalism, your American leaders and presidents, your capitalism and democracy. Our system! When you help them clean the sheet, the leftists can rebuild the society of their dreams. Note that there is growing intolerance of Critical Theory in America just as there was in 1920's Germany. People generally love their country and culture.

[@gabrielbiorge196]

I've watched 5 videos of people trying to explain CRT (including this video) and I still don't know what it is.

[@CHRISTIANNWO]

Systematic racism

[@foxtride7890]

People waning white children to hate themselves for being white and that they’re racist no matter what they do.

[@foxtride7890]

Wanting*

[@1432HATAZ]

It's because your racist

[@1432HATAZ]

@@foxtride7890 and this guy is a racist too

[@bgthtr6404]

I haven't really read what the course really consist of. I left my home state years ago but I'm from South Carolina. My history teachers taught the truth about slavery and yes, I did feel bad for the way my ancestors treated black people, God's children, but I didn't feel guilty in any way. So, why are the south's children today any better than me. You can't erase history because it helps us remember to never repeat it. Republicans today want to take us back to the hateful 60s and the so called "Christians" or evangelicals whom are militant in their support for white nationalist king Trump. Then you wonder why the numbers of the young adults aren't Christians today. Perhaps they've decided that hate in his name is ENOUGH. You do you and we'll do us. Work on heteros who commit adultery. That should keep you busy.

[@Reeeeeee12345]

You need to suck BBC as reparations for the racism and oppression that your ancestors inflicted on black people bro. That will make everything OK.

[@christianpervert525]

Themes of CRT as listed in "Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography", 1993, by Delgado and Stefancic: 1. Critique of liberalism 2. Storytelling/"naming one's own reality" (anti-objectivism; rejection of quantitative/scientific data) 3. Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress (1619 project; anti-incrementalism) 4. Greater understanding of the underpinnings of race and racism ("systemic" racism found everywhere they look) 5. Structural Determinism (you are ONLY the sum of "social factors"; where anti-meritocracy comes from) 6. Race, sex, class and their intersections ("intersectionality"/queer theory) 7. Essentialism and anti-essentialism (identity politics) 8. Cultural nationalism/separatism (including "black insurrection") Marxism is one of the earliest origins of critical theory. In addition, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonialism and Black Lives Matter, as a recent example. A weakness of critical theories is their dependence on social values. While empirical laws theories seek an objective reality, critical theories highlight subjective values that guide communication behaviors. When values conflict the question of, “whose values are better?” emerges. Because values are subjective, humans will never agree. Therefore, you must separate society into two classes...basically, those who fall in line, and those who do not. The greatest unresolved hypocrisy of marxism is that it claims to fight against elitism, yet it's very existence depends on the classification of people. CRT = Either your the "oppressed", IE a "Minority" or you are the "Oppressor", IE a "Racist"

[@echung168]

As Americans, we blame countries that try erase their history from their past but if we do it then we're not at fault of the very blame we are trying to do onto others? I guess it's just the American privilege we have over other countries...

[@finger6307]

CRT comes from the Frankfurt school, in which was the creation of what is called “critical theory”. In essence, it is not an objective view of the world as opposed to how academics are supposed to view and create their literature. The idea behind this way of thinking comes from Marx: more specifically, the abolition of oppression. The problem lies in what CRT and woke people call “oppression” or what is “oppressive”. There is no objectivity to it. It takes the groundwork of Marx’s proletariat and bourgeois dichotomy and applies it to culture as well. This is where the idea of being “woke” comes from: what Marx called “class consciousness”, woke people in reference to culture call “race consciousness” or “gender consciousness”; to be woke is to be racially conscious, sexually conscious, etc. Similar to Marx’s belief, woke individuals also believe that if enough people become racially conscious, sexually conscious, (I’m just going to say socially in reference to culture), the people will stand up and fight for a revolution (at least, most will believe this). If anyone is going to criticize a movement not for the people of it, but the ideas behind it, it is this as well as any other movement and teachings related to being woke. Please like this so people see it.