Critical race theory is a set of ideas that takes different forms, but tends to coalesce around an agreement on a few fundamental principles:
America is a structurally white supremacist society.
White supremacy causes disparities in achievement between races.
The only possible way to undo this structural white supremacy, and explicitly race-conscious discrimination, is through therapeutic exercises that will eliminate internalized oppression and "implicit bias."
These principles inspired the following real-life atrocities:
San Diego Unified School District's decision to abolish turning in homework on time.
Oregon Department of Education released guidance saying that asking students to show their work is "white supremacy."
A Philadelphia elementary school had fifth-graders celebrate "black communism.
Students bullied administrators into acquiescence through an anonymous social media harassment campaign in a New York City prep school.
New York City public schools decided to segregate teachers by race to discuss last summer's protests.
One of the nation's leading public magnet high schools dropped its merit-based admissions test, which has led multiple schools to incorporate mandatory social-justice activism into their curricula.
Instead of helping every child succeed, an elaborate morality play now exists in American schools where students and teachers are instructed in "doing the work" to banish racism from their minds, whether they want to or not.
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That's it? The list is so much longer, but should include this: Critical Race Theory is racist, encourages racism and is likely to lead to an ugly backlash in which even some white "allies" will turn away when their guilt button has been pushed too far. Meanwhile, Black children will be getting inferior educations and will not be helped by the fact that white children are, too, as standards are lowered across the board.
You can't fight racism with racism. If your home is on fire, you don't want your fire department to bring flame throwers to put out the fire, no matter what color they are.
(Not to mention, how I wonder when there is ever going to be a Critical Organized-Crime Theory. In a nation which is governed primarily by standing alliances of, and intertwined coalitions of, vast and formidable mechanisms of fiscal opportunism on both sides of the law; when the distinctions between informants and moles and undercover officers and extorted leakers and double agents and mercenary opportunists are so blurred as to make each of these terms potentially interchangeable; and when one recognizes that most of what passes as governance is being pointed at the rest of us by actors playing any one of, any combination of, or all of, these roles; and when one ponders that corruption has no biases because it hates everybody and sees all human affairs as nothing but an inviting array of potentially vulnerable targets to plunder; and when one admits, at long last, that a continual and mutually beneficial and extremely complex truce between law and lawlessness is what truly governs, irrespective of anyone's skin color.....
Why are obsessing about this 'race', again?
Floyd and Chauvin knew each other, and had both worked for some time for the same underworld bosses as bouncers and who knows what else. Why was that never the heart of the matter?