What Is Critical Race Theory?
Have you heard of Critical Race Theory? If you haven’t, you will. It’s coming to a high school, college, or workplace diversity training session near you. What do you need to know about it, and what can you do to stop it?
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Script:
Have you heard about Critical Race Theory? I’m guessing you probably have. It has already insinuated itself into many institutions and is making rapid progress into others. If it takes hold, it will completely change the very nature of America and the way you live.
Critical Race Theory holds that the most important thing about you is your race. The color of your skin. That’s who you are. Not your behavior. Not your values. Not your environment. Your race.
In Critical Race Theory, if you are a member of a “minoritized” racial group—their term, not mine—you are a victim of a system that is rigged against you, a system that doesn’t want you to succeed. On the other hand, if your race is “privileged,” you’re an exploiter—whether you intend to be or not.
Critical Race Theory begins from the assumption that racism occurs in all interactions. To see how this works, consider this thought experiment: Imagine you own a shop, and two customers enter at the same time—one white and one black. Who do you help first? If you help the black person first, Critical Race Theory would say you did so because you don’t trust black people to be left alone in your store. That’s racist. If you helped the white person first instead, Critical Race Theory would say you did so because you think blacks are second-class citizens. That’s racist, too.
That’s Critical Race Theory. It can find racism in anything, even if it has to read your mind to do it.
Critical Race Theory is a uniquely American invention. Brewed up at Harvard Law School in the ‘70s, now part of the academic and media mainstream, it is also uniquely un-American because it rejects the core tenets of the American, classically liberal, Judeo-Christian value system. It turns the bedrock American idea upside down.
Here it is in the words of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, two leading proponents: “Critical Race Theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and the neutral principles of constitutional law.”
It does this because Critical Race Theory proponents assume racism is present everywhere and always, and they look for it “critically” until they find it. And they always find it. It has to be there because that’s how the imperial European powers, and then America, set things up.
Here, as in all dangerous academic theories, there is a kernel of truth. Human beings were not preoccupied with race until the 16th century when Europeans began to explore and then colonize other parts of the world. Drawing distinctions between the races reached its peak in the 19th century with the widespread use of slave labor in North and South America.
No one denies this. But since then, the Western world and, most especially, America has spent a lot of time, money, and blood breaking free of its racist past. It’s been a rocky road, for sure, but great progress has been made.
Critical Race Theory says all this progress is a mirage: racism never died—never even faded a little bit. It just hid itself better. Critical Race Theory, therefore, is not a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement. It is, in fact, a repudiation of it. To Critical Race theorists, Martin Luther King was both wrong and naïve. White Americans can never judge blacks by the content of their character. They can only judge them, always unfavorably—consciously or unconsciously, by the color of their skin.
Ironically, not since the Aryan obsession in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, or South African Apartheid in the second half of the 20th century, has a social movement been so obsessed with race.
Critical Race Theory is, then, in a very real sense, a counter-American Revolution. But that’s a positive, not a negative, to those who subscribe to the theory.
The American experiment was given a 400-year try-out, and it doesn’t work. So let’s scrap it. That’s what they believe. Is that what you believe? I’m going to guess that most of you don’t.
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While billionaires benefit from our rigged Socio-Economic system – poor people invent games to play… 🤫
EVERY NEW GENERATION MUST REDISCOVER THE FOLLOWING…
Admitting Truth might be uncomfortable, but it's better than continuing to be wrong:Global Socio-Economic system must be based on SCIENTIFIC METHOD, instead of capitalism, democracy, religion, patriotism or any other unscientific dogma that shapes your Value system…
(just like a Space station or a Mars colony)
Socio-Economic system must be DESIGNED and SCIENTIFICALLY TESTED, rather than whatever we have now – that benefits billionaires, while most people are required to be stupid to accept it…
This is racist!
Political ideas and racial identity should NOT be the deciding factors for humanity. Of course racism exists; but not everyone is that way.
Wait where are the sources for this? You have made some absolutely extreme claims so I would have expected a credible organization would’ve been very open about where why they believe these things.
Please keep PragerU videos free because viewers definitely get what they pay for.
Racism has and will always be around . God made us 1 race with different leves of melatonin . Every Race needs Jesus . Jesus is our Savior from this sin of racism .
Proponents of critical race theory aren't informed enough to know a racial minority, Asians, are the most successful group, and our current understanding of White, as a 'race', includes many groups of people who weren't considered White in the past, and some still don't self-identify as. It's just more soft subject intellectual garbage designed to divide people and promote socialist politics.
Don’t believe this nonsense…worse than nonsense. Critical Race Theory is simply taking a look at how we have incrementally accepted racism into our society, some accidental, some intentional. If you’re black and you apply for a mortgage you will probably pay more than a white applicant who’s otherwise just like you. That’s just a fact. And that’s an example of Critical Race Theory. Don’t freak out just because the racists at Prager want to scare you.
Ok, my IQ just lost a few points watching this. If one of my students wrote an essay like this, i'd fail him for lack of factual support and citations.
A 40-year-old graduate level theory that was ressurected a couple years ago as one of the latest "boogeymen" to be feared by the uneducated.
When I hear an idea I don't like, I label it as an "infection".
The assertion that an entire race is conspiring to oppress and subjugate the victim class is right out of the nazi playbook.
The assertion that history is being suppressed is thoroughly debunked by the fact that the history in question is common knowledge, and always has been.
"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.
CRT promotes the notion that the fact that a group is measurably superior is proof that everybody in that group is guilty; and, that a group being inferior is proof that everybody in that group is a victim.
Further: this principle projects through time; asserting that what happened to the long dead projects onto the guilt or victimhood of the living; even if the living never experienced it at all………..
CRT uses history and statistics to justify using government force to implement racial discrimination.
CRT obviates the need for any thought, word or act of racism as proof of their presumed verdict. All they need is their preferred race measuring less favorably than another. Regardless of the cause: they declare their favored race to be victims of the other.
Then they would use real government enforced discrimination in response to their presumed discrimination; altering laws, policies and practices to favor their preferred race.
All for the stated purpose of forcibly making the measurements between races identical.
The operative question is whether you support using government force to implement racial discrimination.
All the rest is academic.
My answer is no.
And our old museums are racist too, because they show almost only white people… nevermind black people basically wasnt anywhere in Europe until quite recently…
Yeah, another ideology to rid oneself of any responsibility and to blame others for their misfortunes. That's indeed very convenient.
If two people entered my shop and one was white, another black, i would first help the one who entered first, regardless of what colour they are. There is something like lines in which people stay and wait for their turn. Same should be followed here.
They are professional victims, poor babies!
I'd still imagine you want some lawyer or law professor to make your point rather than him
It's literally just the idea of systemic racism given a fancy name
Truth usually does change everything. Either learn or repeat itself. You should try some truth.
This is not…what CRT is wtf. what propaganda is this?
I don't see where crt will improve race relations. I am an American Negro and because of my complexion I know bias from both sides. I have been treated fair by both sides as well. Looking for bias is what it sounds like to me. How does this help improve relations?
If you think you can understand Critical Race Theory by watching a 5 minute video from a weak-chinned math nerd with zero history or legal education, then I got a bridge to sell you.
I argue that everyone is a little "racist," that is, human beings are reflexively suspicious and guarded around those who are markedly physically different. If a person in a wheelchair or with a white-tipped cane comes into a room, the able-bodied will become tense & anxious. This is also the unspoken premise of zombie movies (in "Night of the Living Dead," the hero is a black man) & any film featuring an invasion from outer space; suddenly, everyone joins together to fight the enemy.
That reminds of a question someone asked on a discord server they asked:"Do you like black people",
almost immediately everyone answered the question with "Yes".
Probably because they was afraid to offend black, But liking people based on their race is still racism.
I swear at the end was expecting to hear that old school sci-fi sound when something scary is coming lmao.
Racial Identity Politics – National Socialism and CRT – blame the race you hate for all you problems and then . . .
Backsliding Communists the Frankfort School, stole it shaved off the mustache, put some lipstick on it and label it MARXISM.
Marxism is CLASS IDENTITY POLITICS.
DUH!
America's Communist Party pivoted as shown in the 1952 film "I was a Communist for the FBI" to con Black People.
Wow, James Lindsay. This dude knows nothing about CRT. He's a mathematician that 5 years ago was running a martial arts/massage therapy business with zero background in any social science never mind Law. Since CRT is only taught in law schools, I'll listen to a law school professor instead of this donk. It doesn't take long to find real information. Why are people listening to this garbage from people who are self-proclaimed experts when there are actual experts to be heard?
good expose… curious why no mention of the slavery in other nations as well which are still occurring for real today
Say out loud so both customers can hear, "If I can be of assistance , just let me know" CRT assholes & and pronoun punks … "You- you can't just say that. REEEEEEE"