Critical race theory is a victimization cult
Actually – beware of all theories that contain the word “critical.”
I’ve also been thinking lately that we’ve come a long way since 2008 in Obama’s program to fundamentally transform America, haven’t we? He kept it purposely vague, but remember when what a lot of voters thought he meant was that he’d bring us together, healing divisions? Despite the indications that he was actually a person with a strong leftist agenda that he was semi-hiding, a lot of people simply wanted to believe in him and therefore did believe in him.
And in particular, remember when Obama’s close and long relationship with the America-hating Reverend Wright (“white folks greed runs a world in need”) was revealed? In 2008 Obama felt he had to distance himself from Wright in order to win the election. But now, twelve years later, Reverend Wright looks relatively sedate. A candidate running in 2020 in the present atmosphere wouldn’t need to repudiate a relationship with Wright. On the contrary, it would be a feature, not a bug.
A petulant and entitled young woman, Claira Janover (with a no doubt worthless degree from Harvard) is now cloaking herself in the mantle of victimhood for losing her job at Deloitte as a result of having made a vicious short video on TikTok (linked to the CCP) on behalf of BLM. She is now raising money on GoFundMe by claiming that “evil Trump supporters” conspired on social media to have her dismissed from her position, although anyone listening to her barely literate ramblings would wonder how she was ever admitted into Harvard in the first place and how anyone would ever have wanted to hire her.
We seems to be living the “The Age of Cults”….
Lotus eaters. Kool-Aid drinkers.
No doubt, social media and the various addictions it enables play a pernicious role here… (Tune in, log on, drop through?)
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/01/former-transgender-girl-recounts-how-she-was-brainwashed-by-the-online-trans-community/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog
I knew a black female school principal whose doctoral dissertation topic dealt with critical race theory applied to black female principals. The school district did not renew her initial multi-year contract as a school principal. Suffice it to say that in her first semester as principal, nearly half the teaching staff signed a grievance petition against her. This could not be attributed to race, as staff esteemed her predecessor- promoted to a central office supervisory position- who was several shades darker than her successor. As the non-renewed principal had spent some years at the school as an assistant principal, she already knew staff, students, and school. So, the petition didn’t reflect a newbie clashing with entrenched habits. (Consensus was that school discipline was worse- one reason many signed the petition.)
She was merely incompetent as a principal, whatever claims she may have made regarding “critical race theory” and her performance as a principal.
Like Neo, when I hear “critical race theory,” I assume there is a con going on.
born out of feminism, a victim based cult… normalized to the point we dont see it that way… AND socialist/communist based too… did you unpack your knapsack today?
Victim feminism is a term used by some liberal and libertarian feminists in the 1990s to contrast their conceptions of feminism with other feminists who they view as reinforcing the idea that women are weak or lacking in agency, and therefore need to be protected. Amongst sociologists, it has come more into use to describe a similar manifestation of feminism in the 2010s, particularly on college campuses in the US, part of a rising moral “culture of victimhood”, as opposed to other dominant moral cultures like the “culture of honor” and the “culture of dignity”
With so many labels, it means truly nothing:
Anarcha-feminism
Atheist feminism
Black feminism
Chicana feminism
Christian feminism
Conservative feminism
Cultural feminism
Difference feminism
Equality feminism
Ecofeminism
Fat feminism
Feminist anthropology
Feminist sociology
First-wave feminism
Fourth-wave feminism
French feminism
Global feminism
Hip-hop feminism
Indigenous feminism
Individualist feminism
Islamic feminism
Jewish feminism
Lesbian feminism
Lipstick feminism
Liberal feminism
Material feminism
Marxist feminism
Networked feminism
Neo feminism
New feminism
Postcolonial feminism
Postmodern feminism
Post-structural feminism
Pro-feminism
Pro-life feminism
Radical feminism
Separatist feminism
Second-wave feminism
Sex-positive feminism
Sikh feminism
Socialist feminism
Standpoint feminism
State feminism
Structuralist feminism
Third-wave feminism
Transfeminism
Transnational feminism
I knew a black female school principal whose doctoral dissertation topic dealt with critical race theory applied to black female principals.
Again, research degrees awarded by teacher-training programs are spurious, and would be so even if teacher-training programs were not themselves spurious. If we were serious about training teachers, such programs would offer 8 or 9 sorts of certificate, each of which would have a different set of prerequisites. Every basic certificate would require you pass a screening examination to be admitted to the program and supplementary examinations for certain programs. A program would consist of a menu of methods courses (4-16, depending on the certificate sought), an unpaid internship of < year, and a stipended apprenticeship of a year. Enhancements to your certificate would consist of passing additional examinations or an additional year of apprenticeship. Administrator training programs would be in a separate faculty, would recruit experienced school teachers, and consist of something along the lines of one year of tests-and-measurements psychology and one year of public administration courses. The only people writing dissertations would be people studying the psychology of learning, which they'd do in the psychology department, not the teacher-training faculty.
I heard of a young black female from Chicago who was admitted to Princeton University in 1981. Her senior thesis was titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” As the late Christoper Hitchens wrote, “To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”
Thank you, Neo! It is such a relief to see someone else make this connection! I keep suggesting this to my friends only to be met with blank stares. People cannot seem to see the connection between all this unfolding insanity and the “fundamental change” that Obama promised us. It is all exactly what he promised us he would do.
I went to social work school back in 2005-07 and almost had a nervous breakdown trying to stomach the critical theories being taught (though they weren’t yet called that). It was a nightmare and I was barely able to complete my final paper which required whites to write about their privilege and people of color to write about how they’d been oppressed. I was horrified, but any attempts to express my concern were met with patronizing expressions of “concern” that I was just blinded by my white privilege and therefore unable to clearly see myself. Every little misunderstanding or irritation between people in that program was turned into a dramatic race battle that often resulted in faculty helping to “mediate” (aka re-educate). I wanted to scream at them that they were all insane. The readings were almost comical they were so absurd in what they dared to suggest, but then it was terrifying to watch a vast majority of the students read and internalize this illogical, incredibly poorly written, warped thinking as gospel. I got to the point that I was literally having panic attacks before class. At the end of the year one professor “congratulated” me that I certainly was stubborn in my beliefs. I wish I had had the presence of mind to reply that it was just because I was immune to brainwashing.
When Obama came on the scene a few years later I had a visceral reaction to him. I felt he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing and I heard underlying his carefully crafted words his intention to bring about the same sort of societal change that was being taught in the social work program. Yet so few people seemed to understand the language he was actually speaking and what that meant moving forward.
Fast forward to now and it’s all coming to a culmination and the things I feared and hated in social work school have metastasized into almost every aspect of the culture at large. I really do think Obama spend eight years spreading the seeds of this poisonous and destructive mentality, setting the foundation for its insidious spread, and I imagine part of the tremendous rage over Trump’s being elected is that he was a major threat to the final transformation that was so eagerly anticipated by a small but powerful minority. That minority has grown in these past several years and the educational indoctrination appears to have completely kicked in. I just came across James Lindsay’s work the other day from another commenter here (thank you!!!) and have felt indescribable relief at finally having the words to so accurately capture this horrendous and scary cult-like philosophy that I could never adequately explain after social work school. It is such a relief to hear that others also see it and understand the tremendous threat that it poses. I just never could understand how a field that purported to want to help the less fortunate would embrace a philosophy that would so clearly cause much greater and deeper harm. And now we have it at the societal level. Systemic racism is certainly alive and well, just not remotely in the direction that is being claimed.
All this help and still the difficulty with algebra remains.
Personally, I’m rather critical of all this race theory.
https://babylonbee.com/news/powerful-lebron-james-pulls-over-to-lecture-homeless-man-on-his-white-privilege
This one has a perfect punch line.
https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzied-crowds-rush-stores-to-pick-up-copy-of-blazing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole
What moved me to suspicion of and then opposition to Obama was the association with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, both of whom I was extremely familiar with going back to when Dohrn led the walkout of what became the Weatherman faction from SDS in 1969.
They professed the unshakeable belief that blacks should be the vanguard of the Revolution and invested in the notion that this should be personified by Fred Hampton of the Chicago Black Panthers. It was when he was shot and killed by police that they went “underground” and began the campaign of bombings and bank robberies that would go on for years.
The Weatherman name came from the Dylan song in which he said “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” To those who actually had dealings with the group, who were mostly arrogant rich kids, this became amended to: “You don’t need a rectal thermometer to figure out who the assholes are.”
The reason they were so hard to infiltrate was that unknowns had to submit to the “acid test” in which they were given megadoses of LSD and then forced to have homosexual or gangbang-style sex in order to demonstrate how free of hang-ups they were, then remorsely interrogated after a couple of days without sleep. It was said Ayers was particularly sadistic in these sessions.
And so, after all these years, now they had their new Fred Hampton, their black candidate to serve as “vanguard of the Revolution.” (It’s even been said that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s book, which sounds wacky but for the fact that Obama’s SAT scores and college grades remain unavailable although it’s pushed hard that he’s so smart. Likewise, no editorials by him although he was named editor of the Harvard Law Review, which may be unprecedented.)
So Reverend Wright was unnecessary to complete the picture for me.
On another of the myriad controversies of the day:
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/black-white-or-other-debate-about-jesus-race-about-more-skin-color
I have seen reports on how the women of that era bleached their own hair, which is not something simple, although they couldn’t do much about the eyes. It is well-known that the slave-runners in the Middle East and North Africa got a premium price for their captured European blondes.
But the black, Hispanic, and Asian images of a Middle Eastern man with an olive-complexion are not a problem, of course, even though they are found in societies dominated by black (African), Hispanic (South American), and Asian (Asia) power.
Nobody listens to the Reverend King anymore of course. They have not yet descended to calling him a white supremacist, as they have Candace Owens, but that will probably happen eventually.
Never mind that the skin color of some (by no means all) iconic images has no actual relationship to whether or not most people (excepting a miniscule faction in the US, I’ll give him that qualified caveat) are able and willing, as has been conclusively demonstrated even by the Orange Man himself, to condemn the fatal choking of a man whose life mattered, because every life matters to God our Heavenly Father, and thus every life matters to us.
But you can’t say THAT anymore, can you?
So, the deal is to replace one clearly untrue image (the pasty-white European one) with another clearly untrue image (a black African one), rather than everyone going with the authentic coffee-white Middle Eastern one.
But the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.
I would say they want to color Jesus red, but that conveys an entirely different meaning since the advent of the media-driven red state vs blue state model, which was set up deliberately to confuse the prior identification of Red with Communism.
I was reading through Neo’s old post on Obama, which was published before I started reading her blog, and I recognized many familiar names in the comments.
As she had recently memorialized this particular commenter, I payed particular attention to his observations, and recommend them to you all.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2008/10/13/obama-the-soft-socialist/#comment-88618
You can skip past the aside about Dostoevsky, although it was interesting, to get to the topical portion. As with most of Fred’s comments that I have encountered in these wayback machine excursions, it can’t really be appreciated in a short excerpt.
This remark, however, is both pithy and pertinent.
There were more good comments (as usual), and it was most interesting to see the predictions about who would win the election. Some were sure Obama would lose, for credible reasons that didn’t pan out — mostly because McCain was a terrible candidate and a worse campaigner IMNSHO (but still preferable to Obama).
This is kind of a “hit parade” of observations which seemed to me to still be relevant; which — after an 8-year-build-up — led to the election of Donald Trump; and which are recognized problems that are still with us 12 years later.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2008/10/13/obama-the-soft-socialist/
goy on October 13, 2008 at 7:00 pm said: (class warfare promoted by leftists)
FredHjr on October 13, 2008 at 7:38 pm said: (more on Marxism)
Rick in NY on October 13, 2008 at 8:21 pm said: (half-right in his predictions)
Baklava on October 13, 2008 at 10:12 pm said: (evidence didn’t work then either)
strcpy on October 13, 2008 at 11:14 pm said: ( controlling people systems is like controlling software programs – breaks down when complexity increases)
Palladbust on October 13, 2008 at 11:21 pm said:
(I will just lift the quote from Reagan)
Beverly on October 13, 2008 at 11:51 pm said:
(excerpt about Islamic jihad attacks)
sergey on October 14, 2008 at 2:34 am said: (centralised planning always fails; punishing success and rewarding failure, aka social justice, also fails)
Baklava on October 14, 2008 at 10:22 am said: (reprioritize what we spend tax money on)
Artfldgr on October 14, 2008 at 3:51 pm said:
(first there is a long but interesting article/book excerpt on Communists tactics and stratagems, which will sound quite familiar 12 years on; then this accurate prediction)
(Although he couldn’t change it literally, through Article V, he changed a lot with his phone and pen, and the Supreme Court has let most of it stand.)
Artfldgr on October 14, 2008 at 6:44 pm said: (on the tax & spend bait & switch)
FredHjr on October 14, 2008 at 2:23 pm said:
COLLECTIVISM IS THE BORG. FIGHT THE BORG AND STAND FOR LIBERTY AND THE CONSTITUTION!
“Critical” Theory
“Social” justice
Critical theory of social justice?
Racist!!!!! Cancel them!
Maybe Obama’s program for the transformation of America is proceeding as per plan. Maybe his two-term presidency was just laying the ground work for getting the machinery in place and coordinating financing and planning efforts.
Think of his earlier educational and professional background and experience, and consider how insignificant his second term was – and how isolated he kept himself, compared to the present occupant. Even as a lame duck, he was disinterested.
What is happening in the US right now is much more of an indicative product of Obama’s background and experience up to his Presidency. This would be the kind of work he’d be most comfortable with.
This is the transformation he has in mind for his Legacy. The Presidency leading up to it just seals his name as the motivational force driving it, for posterity.