Critical Race Theory originated as an academic theory in the seventies as an offshoot of the Marxist inspired movement of Critical Theory. While CRT can have value as an academic study in higher education, the ideological movement inspired by the analytical tool is problematic. Anti-empirical, anti-rational and illiberal efforts on the left threaten to give political power to anti-equality efforts on the right. My commitment is to racial equality through evidence-based approaches and by reaffirming liberal values.
When used appropriately by professionals, it can be useful at analyzing history and law through a racial lens. Systemic racism is also a useful concept that came out of CRT. Since the ideological movement that spawned from CRT has gone mainstream and become diluted, it’s been misused and abused by lay people, especially in online activism spaces.
CRT doesn’t allow you to see people as individuals. It reduces people to single variables. It puts social significance back into racial categories and inflames racism.
CRT claims that science, objective truth, reason and liberal values are part of a racist structure. As an analytic tool, it seeks to destroy all other analytic tools.
It’s also antisemitic, anti-asian and discriminates against people with disabilities.
We should be reaffirming liberal values and what Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement fought for: to see people for the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
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