Proponents of CRT maybe not be "race essentialists," but they are constructed essentialists, in that constructed group identities are determinative of status. This they have in common with Marxism, hence the term "cultural Marxism," (an accurate term, even if some people dislike it). One strand of provenance for CRT winds back to Marc…
Proponents of CRT maybe not be "race essentialists," but they are constructed essentialists, in that constructed group identities are determinative of status. This they have in common with Marxism, hence the term "cultural Marxism," (an accurate term, even if some people dislike it). One strand of provenance for CRT winds back to Marcuse and the Frankfurt school. Erica Sherover-Marcuse, his widow, led the first "privilege walks" in Marin County in the '70s.
That Ukrainian kulaks weren't singled out by Stalin because of anything they'd done personally or because of their ethnicity was probably little comfort to them. Once you start grading groups of millions of people either oppressors or oppressed, i.e., good or bad, because of history, or sociology, or economics, or whatever, it never ends well.
Yes — why I often say the real problem with "CRT" is its underlying "blank slate psychology" and postmodern epistemological influence {"knowledge construction"}. As FAIR, I think we should focus more on resisting "race consciousness" in general and "critical race consciousness" in particular. That is the more effective counter to what they are "selling" in my mind ... not "race essentialism" so much. :-)
Proponents of CRT maybe not be "race essentialists," but they are constructed essentialists, in that constructed group identities are determinative of status. This they have in common with Marxism, hence the term "cultural Marxism," (an accurate term, even if some people dislike it). One strand of provenance for CRT winds back to Marcuse and the Frankfurt school. Erica Sherover-Marcuse, his widow, led the first "privilege walks" in Marin County in the '70s.
That Ukrainian kulaks weren't singled out by Stalin because of anything they'd done personally or because of their ethnicity was probably little comfort to them. Once you start grading groups of millions of people either oppressors or oppressed, i.e., good or bad, because of history, or sociology, or economics, or whatever, it never ends well.
Yes — why I often say the real problem with "CRT" is its underlying "blank slate psychology" and postmodern epistemological influence {"knowledge construction"}. As FAIR, I think we should focus more on resisting "race consciousness" in general and "critical race consciousness" in particular. That is the more effective counter to what they are "selling" in my mind ... not "race essentialism" so much. :-)