In a speech at the University of Newcastle in 1967, MLK remarked that “there can be no separate black path to power and fulfilment that does not intersect white routes and there can be no separate white path to power and fulfilment short of social disaster that does not recognize the necessity of sharing that power with colored aspirations for freedom and human dignity.” Critical Theorists reject King’s suggestion that such a unified struggle against racism is even possible (at least as a mass movement), since whites are presented as automatons impelled by an inborne sense of racist hostility. King saw equality and enlightenment as values that anyone could access through love, empathy, and common sense. To the Critical Race Theorist, on the other hand, equality and enlightenment can come to white people only through the internalization of rigidly articulated, emotionally sterile dogmas expressed in arcane jargon. By design, this kind of education is fully comprehensible only to those privileged white “allies” who self-identify as a morally advanced vanguard. King would be utterly repulsed by this elitism.
Monday, June 07, 2021
Indeed …
… No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite).
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There's nothing about CRT that presents whites as automatons. That's a straw.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, though, that white supremacists have only in the past hundred years or so allowed Celtics and Catholics into privileged fold. In this country, plenty of Irish and Italian children were separated from their parents in the past. This idea that Irish, Scottish, Italians, Catholics, can be white for having light skin is temporary to the Nazi and KKK factions of the GOP. In the flash if an Anglo-Saxon movement, we can be classified once again with the blacks, Jews and American Indians. White supremacists appear to be using or hiding behind the automaton nature of libertarian philosophy, of arguing against big government intervention, in order to prevent addressing rampant systemic racism.
Whatever you want to accept about that, there is nothing about whites being automatons in CRT. That's a made up argument in order to continue and create more false narrative designed to blow smoke up people's rear ends.