Funny how the proponents squeal about how Critical Race Theory isn’t taught in schools but banning it being taught in schools is an attack on Critical Race Theory. It’s almost as if they forget all their decades of books and academic articles!
"Critical Race Theory isn't in our schools! It's an obscure legal theory!"
Lies. Here, Gloria Ladson-Billings and William Tate make the first explicit call for Critical Race Pedagogy in schools back in 1995. pic.twitter.com/ADRHwVD2Le
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
That abstract is actually quite chilling. Property rights to be reconceived through race by Critical Race Theory so they can be replaced with "human rights" (as defined by progressive activists, or, really, Marxists). pic.twitter.com/551TUFv2qZ
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
And yet, they still deny it.
Continuing on with more evidence…
This is exactly what @HPluckrose and I contended in Cynical Theories about how postmodernism was adopted and modified by activists (here in education) to reshape society under a broad doctrine of identity politics. That's copiously demonstrable in the Critical Social Justice lit. pic.twitter.com/N4KfWfkORw
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Look who they point to as inspirations for what "theorizing race" should look like: feminists, Marxists, and neo-Marxists. Most of the feminist theorizing was heavily informed by Marxian analysis too, going back at least to the last half of the 19th century. pic.twitter.com/zBndbBdFK6
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Critics of CRT: Critical Race Theory falsely makes all inequality about race.
CRT: No we don't. That's a straw man!
Also CRT: Yes we do. "Race is *the* central construct for understanding inequality. This is the foundation of our work." pic.twitter.com/dzQzUfiePL
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Meanwhile, heehaws try to tell me Critical Race Theory isn't based in gnosticism and Hermeticism. LOL. pic.twitter.com/k6VIoUVSj2
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Blatantly a conspiracy theory with the aim of "disentangling democracy and capitalism," taking aim at property rights, just like Marx wanted to do. pic.twitter.com/DvBrw5WqHK
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Citing Derrick Bell, where he seemingly gets confused between the 1780s and the 1980s. pic.twitter.com/1nwt5zQsUQ
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
Critical Race Theory: "name your own reality." pic.twitter.com/NoQqyxVMg8
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
This is what Critical Race Theory is really about: resisting integration in the broader culture and hang on to your politically useful sense of marginalization so you can do things with it and find meaning in your identity instead of your accomplishments and character. pic.twitter.com/ShkMtRjeDv
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
If you have never read the insanity of the "whiteness as property" claim that's core to Critical Race Theory, you definitely should. Remember: this exact claim was given by many prominent voices and politicians in the summer of 2020 to justify riots, looting, and arson. pic.twitter.com/ygwScjkhG7
— James Lindsay, getting one billion moms (@ConceptualJames) July 9, 2021
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