Sunday, May 16, 2021

Critical Race Theory

Here's a quick note on Critical Race Theory (CRT). Critical Race Theory is not a theory; it is a Marxist doctrine that, if followed, leads to brutality, violence and extermination campaigns. How so? The research staff at Unforeseen Contingencies explains.

Karl Marx proposed "ruthless criticism of everything." Marx argued that everything -- every concept, institution,relationship, idea -- should be desconstructed. His idea of criticism was not careful examination, but dismantling. The world could then be reconstructed de novo, from his ideas. Hence he attacked family, religion, normal sexuality, art, and all other aspects of culture. However, he put the greatest emphasis on economics, mistakenly assuming that the mode of production -- e.g. hunting-gathering, nomadic herding, agriculture, industrial production -- determined everything else in society, particularly the formal and informal institutions or rules, and the relations among individuals. He also foolishly thought that workers and employers were implacable enemies, with employers enriching themselves by impoverishing workers. Hence Marx put all his revolutionary eggs in the economics basket, thinking that the free market system would ruin workers and lead them to revolt.

Instead, the free market system created modern economic growth, and began raising workers' incomes and lifestyles to unprecendented levels. The revolution was doomed.

The head of the Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci, caught on to this and realized the workers would never revolt on economic grounds. Gramsci argued that the proletariat had been "bought off" and adopted bourgeois culture, and that the revolution would require new grounds if it were to occur. He proposed culture as the grounds -- race, sex, sexuality, religion, philosophy, art, etc. This theme was also picked up by the Marxists of the Frankfurt School (first of Frankfurt University, and then of Columbia University), who added to it "critical theory," the idea that everything should be deconstructed, subjected to complete criticism a lá Marx. Critical theory is not a theory, but a strategy, a method for tearing ideas apart and destroying them.

CRT itself is a branch of Critical Theory, a form of cultural Marxism, and it is a particularly nasty one, since it promotes race war and race purges. CRT is the basis of the Black Lies Matter organization and movement, an explicitly Marxist organization dedicated to overthrowing Western Civilation (they removed that bit from their website last September, when their accompanying attacks on the traditional family began to attract criticism). Editor/writer Christopher Rufo of City Journal provides details.

That's what CRT is, a doctrine of racism and Marxist revolution. With the removal of President Trump form office, CRT is now being imposed in Federal agencies, in the military, in government school curriculum, and in big corporations. If CRT becomes common dogma, the United States will come to an end. Race hatred, communism, ethno-mathematics that denies such a thing as a right answer, and more... any of these is sufficient by itself to destroy us.

This is genuinely a life-and-death matter. In California, a proposed curriculum for state schools listed Pol Pot as a "heroic person of color." The architect of Cambodia's murderous killing fields was eventually removed, but CRT adopted. But that's where CRT leads...killing fields. It must be stopped and destroyed, and real principles and values must prevail. Now that Unforeseen Contingencies is back in action, we will promote this and explain how it will be accomplished.


Comments:
Dr. Steele,

What do you make of the various Republican initiatives to ban CRT from classrooms? I feel as if that is the wrong approach and opens the door to opportunistic parties in the future to impose even more backwards and draconian curriculum. Plus, I think it also misses the core issue which is the horrible incentives that public schools have to treat their institutions as wealth extraction tools for teacher's unions and the district administrators. Shouldn't we be pushing more marketplace-focused initiatives like charter schools and voucher programs. The former has broad but waning support; however, voucher programs are extremely popular among minority parents. This seems to be the best and least effort approach. Rather than having to go through the exercise of developing some (flawed) qualitative measure for what is acceptable in the classroom that has a high probability of being exploited by malicious parties. I am curious to your thoughts on these items.

Best,

Greg S

 
Thanks for the comment, Greg. No, I disagree. I agree that the public school system, and especially the teachers unions, must go. But the vile doctrines and practices have no place at all in public schools. Ban them. This is urgent. CRT separates individuals by race, which is both morally objectionable and illegal for a government program. CRT teaches that individuals are defined by their race, and that white children are inherently bad and non-white children are inherently victims.

It teaches collectivism: that all relationships are power relationships between groups and there is no such thing as mutually beneficial relations. One corollary is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are racist and should be eliminated and replaced by a socialist system. America was founded on the principle of individual liberty. If a generation of Americans believe those are evil and adopt socialism, America is finished.

I can't really understand your concern about "opportunistic parties" and "more backwards and draconian curriculum." What is worse than Marxism? Everywhere it has been tried it has resulted in death camps and totalitarianism. What is the more backwards system you're imagining? Who are these parties you are imagining who are more malicious than the people promoting CRT? Can you explain?

 
Hello Dr. Steele,

Thank you for addressing my comment. First of all, regarding the harm posed by CRT, I could not agree more. CRT has absolutely no redeeming qualities and undoubtedly poses an existential threat to individual liberty and is a prelude to the horrors of Marxism.

I will attempt to better explain my original point. My concern is that if a precedent is set whereby the government can bar certain ideas from the classroom, what could stop a future government comprised of Marxist elements from 1. undoing such a ban on CRT and 2. placing a ban on discussing topics like classical liberalism? Admittedly, I do not know the history of banning ideas from the classroom but I do know that proposed legislation to ban Holocaust denial in the US has been unsuccessful to date (not advocating for such legislation on Holocaust denial, simply using it as an example). Additionally, I do not know to what extent freedom of speech extends to classroom discussions.

But, at least on the surface, it appears to me that allowing the removal of bad ideas from the classroom, also opens the door to ban good ideas too. I just think these are points worthy of more discussion. I hope this explanation sufficiently clears up any confusion.

Kind regards,

Greg
 
Thanks for your comment, Greg. First, CRT isn't simply a set of ideas. It is a set of practices and activities. In Montana, the State Attorney General has already ruled that many of these practices -- which can be summed up as treating people differently according to race -- are already illegal under State and federal law.

Second, CRT promotes race hatred and teaches that Western Civilization and Capitalism are evil. It is perfectly legitimate for State legislators to demand such things not be funded with taxpayer dollars.

Third, if race hatred and the notions catch on that Western Civilization and Capitalism are evil, America is finished. After the bloodletting is over, knowledge of Mandarin will be useful.

And here's why I don't agree with your point about this being a slippery slope enabling a future marxist government to ban good ideas. A totalitarian government does not worry about whether it has legitimate authority. If you think about it, I'm pretty sure you don't envision a marxist government being constrained by constitutions and other rules established in pre-marxist times. Certainly marxist governments don't envision that. They'll do what they want.

Thanks always for your comments. You might be my only remaining reader since the shadow banning of Unforeseen Contingencies by "don't be evil" google.
 
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