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  1. Yes, I think “race essentialism” says it well. Race is the only important thing about anyone, in this view. This makes it tough on my mixed-race relatives, though. Instead of being valuable individuals, they’re told they must chose one part of themselves and deny some other part.

  2. One aspect of the notion of “disparate impact” that has occurred to me is the impossibility of avoiding it. Can you imagine any law or public policy that would not have different impacts on various subsets of society? I’ve tried, and frankly I cannot think of any. Then again, we are solemnly assured that everything is racist, so perhaps this is supposed to be confirmation.

  3. I hope the plaintiffs draw a decent judge (not Peter Cahill). Note, there are four people in the chain of command above Dr. Gustilo. I do wish their names were trumpeted all over Minnesota, especially the one who signed the letter demoting her. Note, the CV of the director of her organization indicates she is not a medical professional, but someone apparently hired for political connections.

  4. Best of luck to Gustilo. I hope we get coverage of the case as it proceeds.

    The whole business of equal outcomes is completely rotten; not just because it’s explicitly and incorrigibly racist, but also because it requires the State to police every transaction from beginning to end. So much for liberty exercised by autonomous individuals: whatever result they reach will be second-guessed by a legion of commissars and rewritten to ensure “fairness.” Result? Complete infantilization and the death of initiative. A totally centralized system of control. Sterility.

    The vocabulary describing CRT could use some refurbishing, to point up its evil idiotic quality. I always liked the phrase “counting by color” because it conveys in simple terms the approach and the racism at its core.

  5. The irony of CRT, and the idea of equal outcomes for all, while the Olympics are being contested in Tokyo is quite rich. From earliest time, humans have tested themselves in competition with others. It has become so deeply entrenched in human culture as to be one of our oldest traditions. And yet, we have dreamers who want to set aside the idea of competition and meritocracy that has served us well down through the ages. Their idea, basically Marxism, is a lie so attractive that shallow thinkers and slackers cannot resist it. That we have to contest such an idea in our courts is, IMO, unbelievable. CRT is as bad for humanity as any virulent disease and ought to be recognized as such by anyone with some knowledge of history.

  6. As Andrea Widburg (aka Bookworm) says here, there have been many videos of white and black people pushing back against CRT, but this is indeed one of the best.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/a_new_video_with_the_best_pushback_yet_against_critical_race_theory.html

    In the short video, she manages to touch upon everything that’s wrong with Critical Race Theory, from the way it squeezes out actual academic programs to the way it demeans Black students and steals away their earned accomplishments to the racist attacks on White students. This is a short speech that’s about self-agency; hard work; and a merit-based, color-blind society:

    Did you hear the applause when she stopped speaking? She deserved every loud clap.

    Incidentally, I didn’t find who that wonderful woman is, but I did discover a very nice website when I went looking for her. The site is called Black Community News. It’s affiliated with the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, which Star Parker founded. The publication speaks to core conservative values — hard work, faith, patriotism, secure borders, and a society that treats as equals under the law and with respect in personal interactions, regardless of race, color, creed, sex, or country of national origin. I don’t know what its circulation is, but I hope it’s sizable.

    I used to read Parker’s work some years ago, and am glad she is still active in activism.
    From the About page:

    After Star’s first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency, a Christian conversion changed her life. She started a business in Los Angeles and began her activism. She began consulting with federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty, including federal welfare reforms that passed in the mid-90s. She founded CURE in 1995 to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America’s poor from government dependency to self-sufficiency.

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