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Critical race theory (view source)
Revision as of 16:08, September 24, 2020
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According to the [[Alabama]]-based '''Capstone Report''', CRT has made its way into some of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]'s seminaries. At its 2019 Annual Meeting, messengers to the SBC narrowly passed Resolution 9, which stated that CRT (along with intersectionality, another controversial construct) could be "useful tools" in interpreting modern issues (though it pointed out that any such use not impinge on Biblical inerrancy or infallibility).
According to the [[Alabama]]-based '''Capstone Report''', CRT has made its way into some of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]'s seminaries. At its 2019 Annual Meeting, messengers to the SBC narrowly passed Resolution 9, which stated that CRT (along with intersectionality, another controversial construct) could be "useful tools" in interpreting modern issues (though it pointed out that any such use not impinge on Biblical inerrancy or infallibility).
==Criticism==
Peter M. Burfeind writes,
{{quotebox|[[Black Lives Matter]] is the operational arm of “critical race theory,” the [[postmodern]] philosophy of “critical theory” applied to race. Critical theory suffers an inescapable [[epistemology|epistemological]] conundrum. It’s the Liar’s Paradox: If a Cretan says all Cretans are liars, is he to be believed? [...]
So, who came up with critical theory? You got it: white men. Or do you not recognize in [[Immanuel Kant]], [[Karl Marx]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Michel Foucault]], Jean Baudrillard, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, [[Noam Chomsky]], Hans-Georg Gadamer, [[Roland Barthes]], and [[Jacques Derrida]], a whiteness the lilies themselves would envy. Should we not add critical theory to the list of oppressive systems dead white men came up with to advance [[white supremacy |white power]]? [...]
According to its own terms, critical race theory must be racist. Furthermore, Black Lives Matter, the political movement based on its theories, must also be racist—and not black racism, but white racism. At a deep, subconscious level, it serves the purpose of advancing and enhancing “white privilege.”
How else do you explain rich white kids screeching venom at black [[police]] officers and business owners? Or how else do you explain that the theorist who’s been most empowered by critical race theory is white author Robin DiAngelo?
Ruminate on the sad indisputability of this statement for a moment: Something in the [[leftist]]s’ minds needs to keep minorities from finding [[hope]] and advancing in existent American “systems.”
Meanwhile, of necessity by the terms of critical race theory, the flip side of this dynamic is going on. Leftists feel the [[new world order]] will advance their wills to power. Now, at the subconscious level, leftists don’t know they’re doing this. They may reject they’re doing this — because they have [[white fragility]]. Or, more accurately, they are projecting onto others what they themselves are.
They are truly the racists, as they always have been. And here’s sort of an obvious point: They’re telling everyone this now. This is exactly what they’re currently saying: “We’re all racist.” To which I say, “Speak for yourself, but interesting what you’re saying.” [...]
Who do you suppose will benefit most from that new regime of [[civil rights]] law? Sounds like a nice system if you’re an upper-middle-class white leftist. That’s because it is. It’s exactly as critical race theory proposes. “Whites gonna white,” says the theory, so how can the theory itself be anything other than the latest vehicle for whites to empower themselves?
The evidence bears this out. The left has had decades of power and control of our cities, [[academia]], and [[media]]. They’ve had ample opportunities to demonstrate the wonders of their ideas. Yet all we see is the perpetuation of the very things they decry, while they gain more and more power.
For decades, we’ve been told all the [[violence]] and ugliness spawned by leftism are merely the birth pangs of a new system. Well, how long do you leftists need to give birth? Enough already! Give us a taste of the glories of the New World in your [[Democrat urban issues|urban microcosms]]!
Or maybe, as Maya Angelou said, “When someone shows you who he is, believe him.” Leftists are outing themselves as racists complicit in perpetuating systems of oppression. Maybe we should believe them. [...]
Perhaps an honest appraisal of critical race theory is in order, so we can liberate ourselves from the sticky epistemological tentacles of a nonsensical theory. Unfortunately, writ into the DNA of its axioms is the deconstruction of rational dialogue — that too, you see, is just another tool of white privilege. Leftism can’t have room for questions.
We could extol what is by and large a just system for the advancement of anyone who applies himself and works hard — the American system. Individuals in that system could be spending their days in hope and personal achievement using the liberties available to them in this country. Or we could have a healthy discussion about race as it relates to traditional American principles.
Yet instead, we’ll just have to wait for the virus of critical race theory to work its [[nihilism|nihilistic]] destruction on the black community, while whites sit on the sidelines with their shut, masked mouths, on bended knee, advancing their privilege.}}
On September 4, 2020, President Trump ordered federal executive branch departments to halt employee training based upon critical race theory. Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a memo announcing Trump's instruction to stop using controversial forms of training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” and “any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either...that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or...that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.” Vought added, “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ends-critical-race-theory-training-federal-employees|title=Trump ends 'critical race theory' training for federal employees, calls it a 'sickness'|date=September 5, 2020|work=Fox News|accessdate=2020-09-05}}</ref> Vought's memo concludes:
On September 4, 2020, President Trump ordered federal executive branch departments to halt employee training based upon critical race theory. Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a memo announcing Trump's instruction to stop using controversial forms of training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” and “any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either...that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or...that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.” Vought added, “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ends-critical-race-theory-training-federal-employees|title=Trump ends 'critical race theory' training for federal employees, calls it a 'sickness'|date=September 5, 2020|work=Fox News|accessdate=2020-09-05}}</ref> Vought's memo concludes: