I think we have a big problem with the discourse around CRT. The r/criticalracetheory subreddit recently opened, and it's a shithole of tribalism and virtue signaling by stupidpol types, far right conspirators, bored liberals who just walked in to wave their red or blue MAGAs like it's jury duty, and a noticeable complete absence of leadership or actual CRT philosophers. When I checked, the mod who probably redditrequest'd it did not seem to be showing any power level or political affiliation. I could not determine if the agenda of the sub will be "epic WWF style CRT debates" or actual CRT academic discussion .
other hexbear threads:
I've got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZ_3-i5FY4 <- thoughtslime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWaJ5Nqz3M <- the serfs
and basically nothing else for resources. Any true CRT fans/enjoyers sharing information would be great. Also, IDK if hexbear is pro CRT or divided on CRT lol.
Search Terms: CRT, critical race theory, criticalracetheory
The gist I got from Shaun and the recent shitty Chapo ep is that it's definitely correct in explaining how racism was a founding principles of he US, but that it focuses on it to the point of ignoring capitalism (that might just be the 1619 project tho)
Basically another one of those things that's imperfect, but if you hear criticism of it there's a 99% chance it's in bad faith from someone who thinks racism isn't even real
I can see that with liberal education, they'll point out how racism is bad but ignore the relation of it to capitalism.
Yeah that's the gist, but idk if 1619 is just the mainstream lib-y version of the actual academic discipline (it is from the NYT after all)
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It's a mixed bag because it's such an academic topic that you get a lot of the liberal academia biases. I've read some really amazing CRT articles though that trace the history of race as it exists as a modern concept as a superstructural element generated by the capitalist mode of production. Essentially arguing that there is a hard split between our modern conceptualization of race and pre-capitalist ones which were much more ethnicity/region focused than our color coded system because the economic models required different inputs from the social system.
And then you also get afro-pessimist articles about how everything is racialized and has been forever and will be forever and there can never be change around that subject. Win some lose some :shrug-outta-hecks: