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    Critical Race Theory

    (Perhaps there is an apposite existing thread on which to put this - if so, I am more than happy to move it there.)

    I thought this was a good article about Critical Race Theory, and especially the way the right dominates *both sides* of the debate. They decide what the theory is, and then they criticise it.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...selves/619391/

    #2
    That's interesting. There's another article here from Red Pepper magazine, from June.

    https://www.redpepper.org.uk/anti-ra...-under-attack/

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      #3
      The Right Wing Outrage industry in this country, which has virtually unlimited funds, employs thousands, and is seriously lucrative for those at the top of the food chain requires a new Existential Threat to all Thst is good and holy at least every two months.

      These "threats" are "discovered", distorted beyond recognition and then endlessly promoted by the ecosystem, including through the introduction of nonsensical and facially unconstitutional legislation in wingnut controlled state legislatures (of which there are many).

      CRT is the chosen target for this cycle, as bathroom panic, cancel culture, voter "fraud", cities "burning to the ground", and "men playing girls' sports" have been in the recent past.

      It is all profoundly depressing, but they do it because it works.

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        #4
        It's a catch all term to describe any scholarship the paranoid right deems unpatriotic, isn't it?

        https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1413606113971421194

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          #5
          For now.

          About a year ago, "Cultural Marxism" was used in the same way for the same purposes.

          There will be another catchphrase next cycle,

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            #6
            He was apparently fired for showing this poem being read:



            The pretext appears to be 'language': she says 'fuck' or 'fucked' three times but always in a clear context, in no way gratuitous. The racists who fired the teacher just didn't like someone holding up a mirror to their faces that showed who they are.

            Of course the same state has Transphobic legislation.
            Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 09-07-2021, 21:50.

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              #7
              Workshopping the next cab on the rank

              https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1413595082238873607

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                #8
                That should be a thing. Here's a vaccine, now hand over your guns.

                I do not understand, and never have, the fascination with having a gun.

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                  #9
                  India once famously ran a campaign where they offered men fast tracked gun permits in exchange for having vasectomies: https://www.thenationalnews.com/worl...-sour-1.513602

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by MsD View Post
                    That's interesting. There's another article here from Red Pepper magazine, from June.

                    https://www.redpepper.org.uk/anti-ra...-under-attack/
                    Even this seems too broad. It's a legal theory propagated by legal theorists. It's not a broad philosophy.

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