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What is Critical Race Theory? | James Lindsay

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Critical Race Theorists

The critical race theory, c r t movement, is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism and power. They explicitly distinguish themselves from critical thinking because they're in the critical theory tradition. So critical doesn't mean what it means. Its marxian theory. Is what they mean by theory. And then race. What do they mean by race? Surely they can't be screwing around with the definition of race, right? Critical race theory is about race. Did you catch all that? The fundamental principle of society is systemic raceism,. which was created by, in their language, white people, originally from europe, which assigns human

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