Great lecture on Postmodernism. All we are now seeing started in the Universities

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“Critical Race Theory is rooted in some very strong scholarship by liberal humanist and Marxist scholars which pointed out that white identity had been formed at the expense of black identity.

It is essential to note that critical race theory is originally an American phenomenon and the evidence that America was a racially divided society with blacks as second class citizens until very recently is indisputable.

However, with it’s recent descent into postmodern discourse analysis and it’s conceptions of modern society as entirely underlain by systems of white supremacy operating in mysterious ways, Critical Race Theory has become quite unhinged. It threatens to undo much of the progress that has been made on racial equality.

Using methods that assume racism to be present in any interaction between a white person and person of a racial minority results in always finding it and further entrenching the belief in an ever-present white supremacy. Things that have been listed as micro-aggressions include complimenting a black person on their eloquence, saying that you do not see people in terms of race, or that you believe the best person for a job should get it. It is clear what a mine field this is.

Of course the people most affected by being trained to read everything in this way are racial minorities. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt describe this entire method as a form of reverse Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT teaches people not to catastrophize and not to read negative meaning into everything. This decreases anxiety and increases one’s functioning in the world. Applied post-modernism trains people to do just the opposite. It cannot but help to increase anxiety and decrease ability to function.

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