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What is Critical Race Theory? | James Lindsay

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Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory is as critical race theory does. Can you think of a academic discipline that contains an activist dimension, like a real one? Of course you can't. You don't have activist dimensions to academic theories. This is something different. The point isn't to understand society, it is to change it. It sets out not only to ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it for the better.

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