Dox47 wrote:
Whale_Tuune wrote:
I'll grant that a lot of the time, people do often act like/assume that cishet white people all have an easy life, which doesn't do critical theory itself any favors. But I can't find fault with the rationale itself that being white is on the whole easier than being PoC (at least in the USA).
That's an excellent observation, and one that I think applies to a lot of soc/jus stuff, in that the original academic ideas behind some of it had some merit, but when they escaped from academia they were adopted by people who used them as rhetorical cudgels without any of the nuance of the original ideas, which turned a lot of people off of the whole project. Now, I happen to think that critical theory itself is warmed over pseudo Marxist garbage, crudely substituting identity characteristics for class in ways that often don't quite work, but I'd be more willing to engage with its handful of useful observations if they weren't so quickly weaponized by people who often don't even understand the theory in the first place.
To be fair, it's an issue where a lot of people regardless of being for or against don't seem to make an effort to understand what it is before getting angry about it.
Most of the people freaking out at school board meetings aren't even complaining about actual CRT, they're just worried their kids might hear less than flattering parts of American history discussed and that's what the talking heads in their echo chambers have told them CRT is.
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