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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4905105" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>So CRT is just some sort of benign theoretical academic exercise that doesn't actually have any negative real-world implications? Seems to me that it probably does when its tenets are applied to areas such as law/policy making, governmental budgeting/taxation and institutional beliefs/rules/practices. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory" target="_blank">Critical race theory - Wikipedia</a></p><p></p><p>"Critical race theory sees racism as systemic and institutional, rather than just a collection of individual prejudices.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Iati-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> It also views race as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism" target="_blank">socially constructed identity</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> which serves to oppress non-white people.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Britannica-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> The theory emphasizes how racism and disparate racial outcomes can be the result of complex, changing and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices by individuals.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> In the field of legal studies, critical race theory emphasizes that merely making laws colorblind on paper may not be enough to make the application of the laws colorblind; ostensibly colorblind laws can be applied in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color" target="_blank">racially discriminatory ways.</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Crenshaw_2019-9" target="_blank">[9]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality" target="_blank">Intersectionality</a> – which emphasizes that race can intersect with other identities (such as gender and class) to produce complex combinations of power and disadvantage – is a key concept in critical race theory.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2021-10" target="_blank">[10]</a></p><p></p><p>Academic critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Farber_&_Sherry_1997-11" target="_blank">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Posner-12" target="_blank">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPyle1999789,_793–795,_802–803-13" target="_blank">[13]</a>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4905105, member: 48469"] So CRT is just some sort of benign theoretical academic exercise that doesn't actually have any negative real-world implications? Seems to me that it probably does when its tenets are applied to areas such as law/policy making, governmental budgeting/taxation and institutional beliefs/rules/practices. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory']Critical race theory - Wikipedia[/URL] "Critical race theory sees racism as systemic and institutional, rather than just a collection of individual prejudices.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6'][6][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Iati-7'][7][/URL] It also views race as a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism']socially constructed identity[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6'][6][/URL] which serves to oppress non-white people.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Britannica-8'][8][/URL] The theory emphasizes how racism and disparate racial outcomes can be the result of complex, changing and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices by individuals.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2020-6'][6][/URL] In the field of legal studies, critical race theory emphasizes that merely making laws colorblind on paper may not be enough to make the application of the laws colorblind; ostensibly colorblind laws can be applied in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color']racially discriminatory ways.[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Crenshaw_2019-9'][9][/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality']Intersectionality[/URL] – which emphasizes that race can intersect with other identities (such as gender and class) to produce complex combinations of power and disadvantage – is a key concept in critical race theory.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Gillborn_2021-10'][10][/URL] Academic critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Farber_&_Sherry_1997-11'][11][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-Posner-12'][12][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPyle1999789,_793–795,_802–803-13'][13][/URL]" [/QUOTE]
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