The Problems with Critical Race Theory

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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.

Critical Race Theory…

• believes racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction and therefore has its advocates look for it everywhere
• relies upon “interest convergence” (white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interests) and therefore doesn’t trust any attempt to make racism better
• is against free societies and wants to dismantle them and replace them with something its advocates control
• only treats race issues as “socially constructed groups,” so there are no individuals in Critical Race Theory
• believes science, reason, and evidence are a “white” way of knowing and that storytelling and lived experience are a “black” alternative, which hurts everyone, especially black people
• rejects all potential alternatives, like colorblindness, as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town (which is totalitarian)
• acts like anyone who disagrees with it must do so for racist and white supremacist reasons, even ifthose people are black (which is also totalitarian)
• cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced into

Read more:

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/reasons-critical-race-theory-terrible-dealing-racism/

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