I am sorry but the reduction to "race essentialism" is a cowardly escape. Critical Race Theory is a set of incomplete and delusional constructs about race that exalt black people as heroes in a struggle against evil whiteness. CRT holds that white people are essentially evil, oppressive, authoritarians. It casts white people as sub-human, mal-adaptation, monsters who have exploited power to subjugate and harm black people. White people like power and they like harming black people with it. All white people have original sin. Some will be able to recover and survive in the new community of blackness if they repent and become allies with black people (and all oppressed peoples). But they will never gain equal status with black people because they are not deserving of such status. The goal therefore of CRT as an "anti-racism" mandate, is to remove all power and privilege from white people and transfer it to black people and other oppressed peoples. The transformation tactics are intimidation, shame-tripping, and violence. This is the only way white people can atone for their ancestral sins and make the world right. CRT is a zero-sum worldview that offers a clear path to victory for black people, whom God has chosen as his superior race.
Looks to me like classic 'divide and rule' and some ill-disposed individuals are actively egging some less discerning groups into effectively fomenting a race war.
It will end badly for just about everybody, which is, I suspect, their intention.
CRT like gender theory and even feminist theories are really ideologies specifically crafted to advance self interest of the target group. They are not authentic theories, and they are not taught - they are proselytised to a generation of students. The people inventing them are not authentic academics - but political activists working within the university - same as the "journalists" doing the same inside the media sector.
The objective of equality has long ago morphed into a pursuit of status. The problem with status is that it is zero-sum unlike genuine egalitarianism where no one needs to lose. The objective is to demonize European culture and people and inculate them with guilt so they will cease standing up for their own self interest while the others are encourage to do exactly that and do it aggressively. The disappointing thing is that this is advocated by the elites belonging to the very culture which is being demonized. Of course being elites they themselves do not lose, just the ordinary person in the street pays the price.
With respect, I think we're talking at cross-purposes. I know about the various differences regarding illness risks (some of the others I'm not aware of - I'd need to do a great deal of reading about it). However, these are aggregate, and tell you very little about the person in front of you. For example, I have a health condition which is very rare in my demographic. I hold political and moral positions which are fairly atypical for my sex and my background. I do not want to be lumped in with typical tall, white men. Fortunately, I don't need to look at aggregate differences between and within races and sexes, though medical staff, teachers, etc may have to consider them in order to do their jobs properly. However, I, at the individual level, have the luxury of being able to concentrate on who the person is without (too many) preconceptions.
I’ve seen too many Gender Critical people trying to dismiss racism as figment of our imagination. They use the ridiculous musings of a few acadimwits as excuse to deny that black people who are descendants of Slavery still remain as a bottom cast in US. GC can somehow understand womens position in our society has been driven by policies but don’t want to hear anything about black people. It’s tiring and shows GC as in past with women driven movements only care about white people and their safety.
If you want to continue to receive. Support from majority of black people who do not subscribe to gender ideology I suggest you stop trying to conflate our real experience of racism in the US with TRAs.
I agree with many previous comments. This is all just straight out of the left wing playbook. The next step coming to a school near you is denunciation of biological parents by their brainwashed offspring. The Chinese in Mao’s cultural revolution back in the 1960s were experts (see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping) as were the East Germans, and the North Koreans now.
I agree with many previous comments. This is all just straight out of the left wing playbook. The next step coming to a school near you is denunciation of biological parents by their brainwashed offspring. The Chinese in Mao’s cultural revolution back in the 1960s were experts (see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping) as were the East Germans, and the North Koreans now.
I am sorry but the reduction to "race essentialism" is a cowardly escape. Critical Race Theory is a set of incomplete and delusional constructs about race that exalt black people as heroes in a struggle against evil whiteness. CRT holds that white people are essentially evil, oppressive, authoritarians. It casts white people as sub-human, mal-adaptation, monsters who have exploited power to subjugate and harm black people. White people like power and they like harming black people with it. All white people have original sin. Some will be able to recover and survive in the new community of blackness if they repent and become allies with black people (and all oppressed peoples). But they will never gain equal status with black people because they are not deserving of such status. The goal therefore of CRT as an "anti-racism" mandate, is to remove all power and privilege from white people and transfer it to black people and other oppressed peoples. The transformation tactics are intimidation, shame-tripping, and violence. This is the only way white people can atone for their ancestral sins and make the world right. CRT is a zero-sum worldview that offers a clear path to victory for black people, whom God has chosen as his superior race.
The parallels in how the CRT crap and the gender activism crap are implemented are so striking they almost look intentional.
I'm going to stick with Martin Luther King's approach - ignore skin colour, deal with the actual person.
Looks to me like classic 'divide and rule' and some ill-disposed individuals are actively egging some less discerning groups into effectively fomenting a race war.
It will end badly for just about everybody, which is, I suspect, their intention.
What's fascinating is that this is making people race-conscious in a country where racial consciousness was almost extinct.
CRT like gender theory and even feminist theories are really ideologies specifically crafted to advance self interest of the target group. They are not authentic theories, and they are not taught - they are proselytised to a generation of students. The people inventing them are not authentic academics - but political activists working within the university - same as the "journalists" doing the same inside the media sector.
The objective of equality has long ago morphed into a pursuit of status. The problem with status is that it is zero-sum unlike genuine egalitarianism where no one needs to lose. The objective is to demonize European culture and people and inculate them with guilt so they will cease standing up for their own self interest while the others are encourage to do exactly that and do it aggressively. The disappointing thing is that this is advocated by the elites belonging to the very culture which is being demonized. Of course being elites they themselves do not lose, just the ordinary person in the street pays the price.
With respect, I think we're talking at cross-purposes. I know about the various differences regarding illness risks (some of the others I'm not aware of - I'd need to do a great deal of reading about it). However, these are aggregate, and tell you very little about the person in front of you. For example, I have a health condition which is very rare in my demographic. I hold political and moral positions which are fairly atypical for my sex and my background. I do not want to be lumped in with typical tall, white men. Fortunately, I don't need to look at aggregate differences between and within races and sexes, though medical staff, teachers, etc may have to consider them in order to do their jobs properly. However, I, at the individual level, have the luxury of being able to concentrate on who the person is without (too many) preconceptions.
I’ve seen too many Gender Critical people trying to dismiss racism as figment of our imagination. They use the ridiculous musings of a few acadimwits as excuse to deny that black people who are descendants of Slavery still remain as a bottom cast in US. GC can somehow understand womens position in our society has been driven by policies but don’t want to hear anything about black people. It’s tiring and shows GC as in past with women driven movements only care about white people and their safety.
If you want to continue to receive. Support from majority of black people who do not subscribe to gender ideology I suggest you stop trying to conflate our real experience of racism in the US with TRAs.
Go away trolls.
I agree with many previous comments. This is all just straight out of the left wing playbook. The next step coming to a school near you is denunciation of biological parents by their brainwashed offspring. The Chinese in Mao’s cultural revolution back in the 1960s were experts (see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping) as were the East Germans, and the North Koreans now.
I agree with many previous comments. This is all just straight out of the left wing playbook. The next step coming to a school near you is denunciation of biological parents by their brainwashed offspring. The Chinese in Mao’s cultural revolution back in the 1960s were experts (see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/27/china-cultural-revolution-sons-guilt-zhang-hongping) as were the East Germans, and the North Koreans now.
Says a white man. Your bias is showing.