re: Critical Race Theory

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Critical Race Theory

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First off, Critical Theory is a Marxist tool.
CRT is a subset.
You'll rarely find a proponent of one without the other.

As far as a racist component, I'd separate actual theorists, or authors, from consumers of it. The designers of CRT, its theorists, are inevitably racist. Consumers or students of CRT can view past racism and oppression in terms of current victimization without a racist distinction. i.e., Current limitations may not be based on current bias, but are secondary to the racial oppression of ancestors in the past.

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I disagree. A core tenant of CRT is that “white people” (inclusive of ‘white hispanics’, Asians, and in some circumstances non-blacks) are inherently racist which is extremely racist in itself.

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Again, that is true of the authors/proponents. But it's not necessarily the snake oil they are selling for consumption. Their pitch is ancestral racists embedded bias in the legal system, economics and finance, etc. Presently the structural racism, can go unrecognized by people who are not inherently racist. That's the pitch.

e.g., Why were all Barbi dolls white?
Why were all of Walt Disney's human characters white? etc, etc, etc.

There are obviously a litany of possible answers.
But the Critical Race theorist would identify one singularly.
Walt Disney or Ruth Handler were white racists. Hence the resultant white characters.

The trick is selling that crap to a nonracist, present-day audience. If the theorist tells my Black friends I'm a racist, they'll tell him to take a hike. So instead, he says I'm oblivious to the structural racism all around that props me up, and keeps others down. That way my friends can swallow CRT and simultaneously sync it with their own current observations.

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Put clearly, CRT is the belief that racism (against minorities is the assumption) is baked into legal, political, educational, and societal structure.

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I truly don't understand how someone can deny this and expect to be taken seriously. Anyone with any sort of grasp on American history can easily connect these dots.

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and it's offspring, DEI)

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DEI is a neoliberal creation, which is why its such a failure (like every other neoliberal thing, i.e. the entire American government).

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I truly don't understand how someone can deny this and expect to be taken seriously. Anyone with any sort of grasp on American history can easily connect these dots.

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Because nearly all of the evidence for it takes modern outcomes, makes vague reference to decades-old racism in American systems and imputes that onto modern policies/systems without any actual work shown?

The fact that America had racist systems doesn't render your statement accurate. It's why you have imbeciles of your persuasion yelling that police were an invention to subjugate minorities.

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Define what is contained in critical race theory for me real quick

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It's populism applied to the left.

All our problems are due to institutional racism as perpetuated by the Deep State.

Pretty much the same as populism as applied to the right, with the main difference being that the supposed oppressed party is oppressed on the basis of race rather than class.

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DEI is a neoliberal creation

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How do you figure DEI qualifies as neoliberalism?

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neoliberalism is often associated with policies of economic liberalization, including privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.

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CRT and DEI are both squarely in the camp of progressivism.

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The trick is selling that crap to a nonracist, present-day audience. If the theorist tells my Black friends I'm a racist, they'll tell him to take a hike. So instead, he says I'm oblivious to the structural racism all around that props me up, and keeps others down. That way my friends can swallow CRT and simultaneously sync it with their own current observations.

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It's a ridiculously easy sell. It sells a lifetime of victimhood as an alternative to accountability or personal responsibility. Black people aren't overwhelmingly poor because of a culture that places little value on human life, education, or the nuclear family. It is solely because of white racism.

And it doesn't matter that you can point to white populations that are poor for exactly the same reasons. Still racism.

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It's a ridiculously easy sell. It sells a lifetime of victimhood as an alternative to accountability or personal responsibility

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We're all susceptible to a bit of victimization. The Richard Cory syndrome. Woe is me compared with him and what he's got.

Yes, those highly paid grifters run brainwashing programs.

Unless you accept the extreme ideals of CRT, society requires retraining.

Its fringe. You folks are extremists.