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Lon Guyland's avatar

So “Marxism is dead” yet the “leader” of BLM claims to be a “trained Marxist”. I guess I will need to think a little further about those two concepts.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then for practical purposes it’s a duck even if you want to draw some academic distinction and call it something else. As with roses and sweet fragrances, a totalitarian collectivist by any other name is just as ruthlessly genocidal. Was Pol Pot a Marxist as seen through the eyes of someone with a PhD in political economy? Mao? Mussolini? Hitler? Stalin? Quite likely not exactly. But it sounds like a distinction without a difference. The details of what’s “under the hood” in their thinking is akin to debating angels and heads of pins: it makes no real-world difference. Each killed millions in a quest for absolute power. There’s little more to say.

Whatever you want to call it, however you want to dress it up, whatever it says on the tag, teaching children that the color of their skin determines who they are — is the foundation of their humanity and casts their future — is unethical and immoral.

I thought we all knew that.

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Don't you have children in school? Critical race theory is the term being used to encompass the anti-racism programs that are called by their implementors such things as "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" (DEI) task forces. So you've played a sleight-of-hand here. You've used the former and more technical origins of critical race theory to elide the fact that there is a derivative, modern formula being used in schools to horrific effect.

DEI / anti-racism is a quite nearly insane doctrine. It assigns collective racial guilt and social hierarchy based on race. It insists that any outcome difference is solely due to conscious or unconscious racial bias. Teachers at my children's (former as we homeschool now) charter school were assigned a task of monitoring their unconscious acts of racism and reporting back ala a communist self-accusation or struggle session.

Parents and teachers are told that anyone who is not actively engaging in whatever they define as anti-racist activities is a racist. As part of this the school sent out a video where preschoolers were having non-traditional gender roles 'scaffolded' (i.e. forced) into play sessions specifically designed for the pre-school teacher to impose the 'correct' views.

All of this occurs against a backdrop of fear as anyone accused is automatically guilty, much like you might find in any totalitarian society. No actual critical faculty may be exercised by the students about these broad social questions because the doctrine cleverly made anyone who doesn't openly, actively and aggressively perform acts of ablution a racist by default.

So go ahead, call it what you like. Call it anti-white racism maybe. But it has been dubbed critical race theory for a very clear reason: the alleged purpose of all this is to erase differences that are purported to be caused by implicit bias embedded into everything from reasoning to mathematics to gender.

Your argument here is akin to saying "everyone has been worried about vaccine side effects but mRNA gene therapy is not a vaccine so its okay to take it."

Playing semantics and doing so to deliberately miss the point is sophistry.

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