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

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Simple answer about CRT in the USA.

    Most of our taught in school mandatory history has almost all negative race related interactions yeeted out of existence while having no problems with framing "white" people with lots of positive racial characteristics and "non white" people with negative racial characteristics. CRT is just correcting the historical record/education by reducing/eliminating the positive/negative racism that might is in most primary school education and discussing the racial components of the history taught in schools that is typically ignored.

    There is a book in the MegaArchive of Theory that has an somewhat older edition of "Lies My Teacher Taught Me" that doesn't use the phrase CRT but what it is doing is exactly what CRT is supposed to be doing. Author does surveys of public school history books, points out where they are wrong/incomplete/misleading and tries to give some explanation as to what causes this.

    The hexbear hive mind should be pro CRT, I don't think I've come across a compelling argument for why we should not embrace a more full and correct telling of history.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      CRT is good, it's a subset of critical theory which is based on a dialectical materialist approach to history. The problem only arises when people start cherry picking CRT or other critical theories to divert attention from a systemic problem they themselves benefit from. The theories themselves are good and necessary and need to be integrated into any historical understanding of class that we have, but trying to reduce them to isolated issues that esist outside the influence of capitalism and class conflict is liberalism and self defeating.

      I like to call this the "Killer Mike" effect. A great understanding of the issues of racial relations and how they effect class, but a sharp denial that capitalism is at fault and preaching the importance of black landlords and black capitalists.