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'''Critical race theory''' ('''CRT''') is a [[Postmodernist]] construct based on [[Critical theory]] that teaches that race is not [[genetic]]. Instead, race is a social construct and a basis for political struggles in the fight for racial justice.
Critical race theory provided the foundation for claims that the [[Founding Fathers]] are "[[racist]]." Critical race theory was devised by Derrick Bell, [[Barack Obama]]’s favorite Harvard professor, in the early 1980s.<ref>Fernando, Ivan (November 18, 2013). [http://diversitychronicle.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/progressive-professor-urges-white-male-students-to-commit-suicide-during-class/ "Progressive professor urges white male students to commit suicide during class"]. Diversity Chronicle website.</ref> CRT exemplifies [[Lenin]]’s strategy as applied to race. According to [[Discover the Networks]]:
Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory teaches a view that all aspects of Western society are discredited, and this view forms the foundation of what we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life’s work.
==Criticism==
Who do you suppose will benefit most from that new regime of [[civil rights]] law? Sounds like a nice system if you’re an upper-middle-class white leftist. That’s because it is. It’s exactly as critical race theory proposes. “Whites gonna white,” says the theory, so how can the theory itself be anything other than the latest vehicle for whites to empower themselves?
The evidence bears this out. The left has had decades of power and control of our cities, [[academia]], and [[media]]. They’ve had ample opportunities to demonstrate the wonders of their ideas. Yet all we see is the [[systemic racism|perpetuation of the very things they decry]], while they gain more and more power.
For decades, we’ve been told all the [[violence]] and ugliness spawned by leftism are merely the birth pangs of a new system. Well, how long do you leftists need to give birth? Enough already! Give us a taste of the glories of the New World in your [[Democrat urban issues|urban microcosms]]!
Yet instead, we’ll just have to wait for the virus of critical race theory to work its [[nihilism|nihilistic]] destruction on the black community, while whites sit on the sidelines with their shut, masked mouths, on bended knee, advancing their privilege.}}
==Higher Education==
CRT has affected higher education in a number of ways,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/bridge/CriticalTheory/critical4.htm|title=Critical Race Theory|accessdate=October 3, 2020}}</ref> and many critics claimed that higher education was the breeding ground for the theory prior to its spread into general society. CRT has been developed and spread in a large number of academic papers, with journal editors showing a preference for analysis that promotes CRT relative to other theoretical frameworks.
In terms of faculty hiring, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, discrimination on the basis of race in hiring and promotion is illegal, however CRT adherents advocated that color-blind hiring and promotion practices must be abandoned because of the inherent "institutional racism" embedded in traditional views of academic standards and quality. Some universities reallocated budgets to create special minority hiring funds. Under this arrangement, academic departments could use color-blind hiring as vacancies occurred, but that separate funding would be made available from the central fund for additional raced-based hiring.
Starting in the 1980s, campuses began to adopt "speech codes" seeking to limit student speech that black students would find hurtful without a corresponding limitation on speech that majority students would find hurtful. CRT provided a rational for limiting traditional First Amendment rights of college students and staff.
In contrast with the 1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement fought to integrate campus housing, including fraternities and sororities, CRT has promoted "safe spaces" and segregated campus housing for minority students.
The first and most thorough adoption of CRT in the United States was at [[Evergreen State College]] in 2017. Proposals were advanced for race-based hiring and promotion, and administrators tried to pressure faculty to change the grades of a black student who complained. The students took over the library/administration building, seized the cafeteria, demanded that the President stand-down the police, while they hunted down [[Bret Weinstein]], a faculty-critic, with baseball bats. When the administration called a town-hall meeting, the black students actively discouraged white students from attending. The national publicity of the crisis resulted in a large drop in enrollment and donations.
==Religion==
According to the [[Alabama]]-based '''Capstone Report''', Critical race theory has made its way into some of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]'s (SBC) seminaries. At its 2019 Annual Meeting, messengers to the SBC narrowly passed Resolution 9, which stated that CRT (along with [[intersectionality]], another controversial construct) could be "useful tools" in interpreting modern issues (though it pointed out that any such use not impinge on [[Biblical inerrancy]] or infallibility).
In response, a [[Conservative Baptist Network]] was formed in February 2020 to battle the spread of CRT within the SBC. It is concerned that CRT has overwhelmed the proper Baptist emphasis on evangelism and spiritual renewal.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-baptist-network-launched-amid-woke-trend-in-sbc-emphasizing-scripture-evangelism.html|date=FEBRUARY 14, 2020|title=Conservative Baptist Network launched amid 'woke' trend in SBC, emphasizing Scripture, evangelism|accessdate=October 3, 2020}}</ref>
Theologian [[Tim Keller]] has noted: {{quotebox|The distinctly secular theory of justice locates evil in the wrong place, he added, seeing all injustice as occurring on a human level, demonizing human being instead of recognizing evil forces — "the world, the flesh, the devil" operating in every human being (Ephesians 6:12).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/critical-theory-is-not-biblical-justice-it-locates-evil-in-the-wrong-place-tim-keller-explains.html|title=Critical theory is not biblical justice, it locates evil in the wrong place: Tim Keller explains|date=August 13, 2020|accessdate=October 3, 2020}}</ref>}}
==Law enforcement==
:{{see also|Systemic racism}}
Under traditional theories, the goal of law enforcement was the adoption of clear rules of conduct and then enforcing those rules in a color-blind manner. Because law enforcement officials have to make split-second decisions that could result in serious bodily harm or death, most states adopted [[qualified immunity]] statutes to protect individual law enforcement officers from liability for such injuries. In contrast, CRT sees all events and interactions as involving race and the exercise of power to subjugate racial groups. Accordingly, CRT justifies movements to "defund the police" and to repeal qualified immunity for law enforcement.
==Trump Administration==
On September 4, 2020, President Trump ordered federal executive branch departments to halt employee training based upon critical race theory. Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a memo announcing Trump's instruction to stop using controversial forms of training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” and “any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either...that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or...that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.” Vought added, “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ends-critical-race-theory-training-federal-employees|title=Trump ends 'critical race theory' training for federal employees, calls it a 'sickness'|date=September 5, 2020|work=Fox News|accessdate=2020-09-05}}</ref> Vought's memo concludes:
{{quotebox| The divisive, false, and demeaning propaganda of the critical race theory movement is
contrary to all we stand for as Americans and should have no place in the Federal government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf|title=MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES M20-34|date=September 4, 2020|accessdate=2020-09-05}}</ref>}}
On September 22, 2020, President Trump followed up with an Executive Order on "Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-combating-race-sex-stereotyping/|title=Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
|date=September 22, 2020|accessdate=October 3, 2020}}</ref> The Executive Order prohibits teaching CRT to the Uniformed Services or requiring members of the Uniformed Services from being sanctions for refusing agree with CRT. All federal government contractors are prohibited from using CRT-based trainings. Entities that receive federal grants are also prohibited. The Executive Order recognizes the inconsistency between CRT and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Attorney General must research how CRT could establish a hostile work environment prohibited by Title VII.
On September 28, 2020, the Director of OMB followed up with further guidance requiring all federal departments to report on all of their contracts and contractors by November 20, 2020 all violations of the other guidance. Anyone who is aware of federally funding training that violates those Executive actions are instructed to report it to an Inspector General.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-37.pdf|title=Ending Employee Trainings that Use Divisive Propaganda to Undermine the Principle of Fair and Equal Treatment for All |date=Sept. 28, 2020|accessdate=Oct. 6, 2020}}</ref>
==Youth groups and organizations==
Following the death of [[George Floyd]], a nation-wide panic arose to "virtue signal" support for "racial justice" as defined through the lens of CRT. For example, on June 15, 2020, the Boy Scouts of America Executive Committee issued a statement that redefined "Be Brave" as including being anti-racist. {{quotebox|The Boy Scouts of America stands with Black families and the Black community because we believe that Black Lives Matter. This is not a political issue; it is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address.}} BSA will require each Eagle Scout to earn a new diversity and inclusion merit badge, and all BSA staff will be required to attend diversity training.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/|title=BSA’S COMMITMENT TO ACT AGAINST RACIAL INJUSTICE|date=June 15, 2020|accessdate=October 4, 2020}}</ref>
In 2007, a Professor at the University of Waterloo published a research paper, "Ugly on the Diamonds: An Examination of White Privilege in Youth Baseball" which argued that there are elements of racism within the color-blind polices of the Little League.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490400601160895?journalCode=ulsc20|first=Troy D. |last=Glover|date=January 30, 2007|title=Ugly on the Diamonds: An Examination of White Privilege in Youth Baseball}}</ref>
==Psychology and psychiatry==
On September 1, 2020, the national professional society of caregivers responsible for the mental health of '''individuals''' in the United States, adopted a resolution calling for “true systemic change in U.S. culture” because of “institutional racism.”<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/03/psychological-association-urges-true-systemic-change-us-culture/|title=American Psychological Association Urges ‘True Systemic Change in U.S. Culture’|work=Breitbart|date=September 3, 2020|accessdate=October 4, 2020}}</ref> It is unclear how the duty to provide care in the best interests of indivdual patients will be compromised by this new goal of fighting institutional racism or whether white patients will be treated differently that patients of color.
==Other professional organizations==
Mathematics is possibly the profession which deals with abstract truths and discovery independent of cultural factors. Our current mathematical knowledge has its origins in Arabia, Greece, China, India among other civilizations. Yet, in response to the Trump Administrations discussed above, the Mathematical Association of America's Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics issued a statement on October 2, 2020:{{quotebox|Critical race theory, referenced in recent Executive statements by the President of the United States, is an established social science inquiry which is grounded in decades of scholarship. It is misguided, at best, to reduce this theory to the race-blaming of white people and to define it and the discussion of systemic racism as a “divisive concept.” Furthermore, banning training utilizing this scholarship to raise consciousness, from federal and federal contractor workplaces, is an encroachment on science and the academy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mathvalues.org/masterblog/anti-science-policy-censure-of-discourse-on-race-and-racism|title=ANTI-SCIENCE POLICY AND THE CENSURE OF DISCOURSE ON RACE AND RACISM|date=October 2, 2020|accessdate=Oct. 6, 2020}}</ref>}} Of course, this criticism is inapt because the Executive statements specifically allow for teaching of CRT objectively, and prohibit in race-blaming of any group, whites, blacks or other people of color or misusing stereotypes.
==Bibliography==
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147980276X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl Delgado, Richard. Critical Race Theory, Third Edition. NYU Press. Kindle Edition]
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442216042/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl Thompson, Sherwood. Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Kindle Edition]
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1634312023/ref=as_li_tl Pluckrose, Helen & James Lindsay, CYNICAL THEORIES: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody. Pitchstone Publishing.]
==References==
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==See also==
* [[Critical legal studies]]
* [[Politically correct renaming]]
*[[1619 Project]]
==ReferencesExternal links=={{reflist}}* [https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/ Social Justice Encyclopedia]
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