So I've been reading up on critical race theory and it reads like social "science" nonsense. Would any of our liberal friends care to explain what this theory is, what evidence there is to support it and what proposals/conclusions can be drawn from it?

Also curious what if any measurable improvements in "racial emancipation and anti-subordination" have been achieved through the implementation of crt policies


Critical race theory (CRT)[1] is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that examines society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.[2][3] Developed out of postmodern philosophy, it is based on critical theory, a social philosophy that argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors. It began as a theoretical movement within American law schools in the mid- to late 1980s as a reworking of critical legal studies on race issues,[4][5] and is loosely unified by two common themes. Firstly, CRT proposes that white supremacy and racial power are maintained over time, and in particular, that the law may play a role in this process. Secondly, CRT work has investigated the possibility of transforming the relationship between law and racial power, as well as pursuing a project of achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly.[6]

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Critical theory is a social philosophy pertaining to the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge power structures. With origins in sociology, as well as in literary criticism[citation needed], it argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors. Maintaining that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation,[1] critical theory was established as a school of thought primarily by the Frankfurt School theoreticians Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer. The latter sociologist described a theory as critical insofar as it seeks "to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them."[2]

if the authors and believers of said theory really endorsed it they’d write a check, stfu and go away forever

but they don’t

auditard can't read wiki

basically it involve to be critical instead of ignoring the rampant, rooted, racism

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Sep 5 2020 11:15pm

Just believe it and do what you're told.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Sep 5 2020 11:00pm

Seems like you should just do some googling instead of asking us to do your research for you.

I only recently heard about it, but from what I'm reading it doesn't seem to be controversial. Anybody who's even moderately observant should come to most of these conclusions on their own.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Sep 5 2020 11:11pm

summary of said “theory”

inb4 the usual pale pasty privileged lefty suspects attempt to argue otherwise

It teaches white people to hate themselves for simply being white.

It says the system is inherently racist and any white person within it is perpetuating that racism.

It teaches that things like statistics/hard sciences are inherently white supremacist due to their need for empirical data and denial of other ways of "knowing" (magic basically).

Its a cancer that will finally be cleansed by the spotlight hopefully.

I would kindly debate you Tuesday for a citation today.

it's false, it's just a critical point of view.
white supremeracists is the first threat in us

It's just an academic term that refers to the very things you've been exposed to when you listened to SJW rhetoric on white supremacy and racism. Rather than looking at communities of color and noting their less-than-desirable measurable outcomes and concluding that people either aren't working hard enough, are self-sabotaging, or that they've developed a maladpative culture, a CRT perspective instead looks at the systemic, sociological factors of oppression, racism, and the legacy of white supremacy as being the critical pillar that is at the center of these issues.