At min 11:30 stating that there's still "residual racism" in America is a CRT premise, and part of its analytical tools. Giving into this false narrative, we're already at a loss.
It is neo-communism. It's the same Mary, with a different hat. We should stop calling it neo-marxism, it's neo-communism. I've lived in communism, I have what a true good neo-communist would call "lived experience".
@@janewx1 I'd love to cover Bell, Crenshaw, etc. in greater detail. But we're doing 100 years of intellectual history in a few minutes and Kendi, for better or for worse, is the most prominent "antiracism" activist in the country and the source for a lot of the materials you see in schools, government, and corporations.
I wonder how much money the "anti capitalism" Kendi would send me? I mean, you know, since he has probably made thousands off of his book.....which he couldn't have done WITHOUT the freedoms of CAPITALISM......I'm sure he doesn't need all of it, y'know? Hypocrisy and double standards.....
@@eriklastname8157 I'm pretty much The Token White Guy in my neighborhood. When I was working 2nd shift, and coming home around midnight, I was stopped and asked "what are you doing here?". Why because I didn't fit. A white guy driving in a black area, doesn't fit. Was I profiled? You Bet! After a couple of weeks I was no longer stopped. Because I now fit, I was the white guy in this area. I was a Security Policeman in the AF, I can tell you All Cops Profile.
-- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
I had a “black history month training” yesterday: they remove personal responsibility from black people, every failure must be someone else’s fault, and then they want reparations for that, making victimization and failure, a business. This is not going to end well.
I really appreciate that you're willing to acknowledge the skillfulness of those selling this ideology. A harmful ideology isn't as scary if it's so crazy that people immediately reject it. What makes this so worrisome is that it's being promoted by truly compelling and charismatic voices.
People have been warning about Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School for 30 years. They were labelled "conspiracy theorists": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
My dad is a philosophy professor. He's been talking about this coming down the pipes for a very long time as well. I just didn't think it would leave the campuses.
@@anwylhsm954 universities have been slowly indoctrinating students for years. They were teaching a milder version at the university I attended in Oregon in 2003.
@@gbaker1a775 Did it work on you ? Just because a curriculum is taught doesn’t mean it’s popular or widely accepted. I lean left and know CRT is garbage. Just like forcing children to pray.
@@rolandthethompsongunner64 when I was younger some aspects of CRT resonated with me. Life experience and further study straightened me out. I discovered Milton Friedman, Walter Williams, and Thomas Sowell. They should be teaching opposing views in state schools. I’m an atheist, and I disagree with you on prayer, well I disagree as long as we define force. I’m taking your definition of force as a very broad definition that likely includes encouragement. Christianity has been a wonderful contributor to American society. The abolition of slavery was rooted in Christianity with the Quakers. I could go on. With that said, religion has probably already been destroyed in the United States. There’s really nothing to argue about.
@@spidgeb3292 I think an example of what could be considered a racist law would be the difference in punishment between crack and cocaine (same substance just at different purity levels) because crack was predominantly pushed in black communities while cocaine was more predominantly used by white people. Crack is considered to warrant a more harsh punishment than cocaine, and you may think "oh probably because of crack being more pure" but in actuality cocaine is the more pure substance. The point I'm getting at is that crack was treated more harshly in punishment because of its use by black people. So I think that's a pretty straight forward example of how the system is racist without any overtly racist laws.
@@gucciscrewdriver I see your point, but there's a big difference in crack and cocaine with respect to what it does the communities and individuals. Crack is massively more addictive much more quickly than cocaine, it's cheap (cocaine in the 80s and 90s wasn't), communities were being destroyed by crack usage and distribution, and--this is the important one--black community leaders and mayors practically insisted on harsher penalties for crack distribution. Now, if you want a true white drug-vs. black drug comparison, that would be meth vs. crack. Meth is the drug of poor rural whites. It's cheap, immediately addictive, and destroying communities. That's your better comparison. And penalties for meth and crack are damn near identical.
Unfortunately, very few people on the right or the left know how to talk about dynamical systems, so we're unlikely to ever have an intelligent conversation about this.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Desiderius Erasmus This is definitely a great presentation because it reinforces Rufo’s objectives. Misinformation presented clearly and succinctly with the intent to mislead the unknowing using logical fallacies is very powerful! Instead of consuming and digesting someone else’s talking points of their flawed and incomplete research, do your own research before accepting something as true and accurate. “We have successfully frozen their brand - “critical race theory” - into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the cultural insanities under that brand category.” “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think “critical race theory.” We have decodified it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Christopher F. Rufo
I think it's great. You really don't need to be a scholar or even "well read" or overly well read on any subject to begin to form a practical understanding and relevant opinions. Like I am sure that many 60's student protesters, radicals, stoners, hippies, etc. didn't have a complete, studied, soup-to-nuts understanding on issues like the Viet Nam war, abortion, civil rights, etc. But they took to the streets anyway with just a rudimentary understanding (maybe less), in small numbers and created just enough pressure and notoriety to start getting more and more people to notice and eventually the federal government to concede to their demands. And most of your rank-and-file protesters probably couldn't write even a full paragraph on what it was they were protesting, let alone a long and wordy dissertation. All you really need is to hate something with a passion and want to do something about it; To do something to end it. And then work like he ll to accomplish it. Like the left and Donald Trump. They just knew they hated Trump and worked to try to stop him. Nobody really needed to recite a paper or have read a biography to know what they didn't like about Trump. This Rufo lecture is just the beginning of the fight to combat the social and cultural poison which has long been brewing in the US and wrapping its tentacles throughout our government and educational institutions for decades. This lecture is just the warning shot or "spark" to make the common folk aware, to get people to stand up and take notice. And like Mao said, "Just 1 little spark can set the whole field on fire".
@@ratghost25 Your beginning statement reinforces my comments. It sounds like you’re agreeing with Rufo and you don’t even know what CRT is. Truly research CRT and then come to a conclusion about the validity of someone’s claims. You use a quote you believe is from a Marxist and Rufo maligns CRT because he believes it’s founded in Marxism. Do your research. Your comments reinforce the possibility that you’re a regurgitater and not a thinker.
and every where else. It is spreading like a virus also in all of western Europe. They are feeding a major backlash by letting this grow, then they will blame the uninfected saviours for the damage, as usual.
-- If you can't answer these basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? Who started Critical Race Theory? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? What are a few of Christopher Rufo's lies about Critical Race Theory? What Neo-Nazi conspiracy theory has Christopher Rufo incorporated into his Anti-Critical Race Theory propaganda?
This is happening in my sons school. It is subtle at this point because he is only in 5th grade but it’s there and creeping it’s way into more and more aspects of his education. I feel overwhelmed by this and because I don’t know who is or isn’t an ally my wife and I feel helpless. My wife and I have spoken up to the “woke” principal and will ALWAYS speak up no matter what. We are also changing schools but we noticed pride flags and blm fists in a couple class rooms when we went to the school’s orientation. I’m in Rhode Island.
"pride flags and blm fists" might not be all that bad, I am more concerned about people saying online that my grandchildren should be ashamed because I did not go to Selma or Birmingham 60 years ago. Even though in my generation the Republicans in the Senate and the HOuse provided the votes for LBJ to pass "those N-Word laws" which is what he said about the civil rights legislation. The minority cannot persecute the majority unless we allow them to do that. And let's not worry about whether the school calls it Critical Race Theory, if they are teaching hatred of white people. A totalitarian by any other name would smell as sweet.
True students of history know the reason why history is taught at all: To prevent people from making the same mistakes. We teach the Holocaust and the atrocities Germany committed in WW2, but do we hate Germany? Of course not, that's absurd. Critical Race Theory creates more awareness for how race was perceived throughout history and how that created the America we live in today. The biggest take away is to literally not make the same mistakes people made in the past. How is this difficult to comprehend?
@@keithy5932 BS teaching school kids "UNCONSCIOUS BIAS" is planting a boogeyman in their heads in the PRESENT....the boogey man is themselves...it's child abuse
@@smcgov You *REALLY* think that white kids are being taught to hate themselves? Where did you even get such an idea. Look, I don't blame you for not knowing if you haven't been in the school system for a long time. But at the same time I am blaming you for believing such a baseless idea that schools are teaching kids to hate themselves. If this really is the case then how come this shit hasn't gone viral within the last ten years? Five years? The only reason Critical Race Theory is a huge subject right now is to get people like you to believe in it, to perpetuate this false idea that white people are being oppressed so that no marginal progress can be made towards bettering America to be more equitable towards everyone, especially disparaged minority groups like black people. If you want me to agree with what you're saying or try to understand your view point I suggest you provide some evidence as to how Critical Race Theory is evil.
@@keithy5932I don't think...i KNOW...do you even have kids? I have listened to the zoom classes they don't want us listening to, why do you think that is? If you're rooting for this disgraceful disgusting ideology you are truly brainwashed
Great work Mr. Rufo and team. This video was to the point; it is a great teaching tool for those of us who are still learning what CRT is and why it is so harmful to our beloved society. Thank you for all of your hard work.
-- The racists posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
The only reason you think it's a great "teaching tool" is because you believed this idiot without looking it up yourself. In other words, you were lazy in your own education. FYI, the entire thing he's complaining about is only not accepted in the US, like the metric system. The rest of the world just considers CRT basic cause and effect, no matter how much this guy tries to lie to people.
@@tanepukenga1421 Can you site a website or an article that states "The rest of the world considers CRT basic cause and effect..." Please site a credible source.
@@donaldschaefer6860 Anything from an actual university would do. They don't get the luxury of not engaging with the wider world, and so get as little leeway as otherl scholars when it comes to misinformation. Similar to how they were disproving all the covid conspiracy theories
Which scholars? I’ve heard maths and philosophy phds and quantum physicists explain it as an intellectually redundant front for revolutionary marxism. I’ve heard the seminal texts from postmodernism explain almost the same thing
@@almcdonald8676 to accept CRT today we would have to profile each individuals race victim status, we would need their biological dna profile to see what % of their profile is linked to slavery, we would need to know their economic status, their family history going back to slavery and divide that by personal responsibility, we would then have to proportion guilt, the % of land owning white slave owners from that time and genetic % of links to today's white Americans on and on and on and what we will end up with is a bi-racial child getting dividends from a parent the whole thing is insane
Hey can you provide sources please? You reference a lot of academic papers, examples etc, but provide no sources to them. It's not much of an essay without sources. It's a little sad that you think your 10-15 examples provided are "better than 1,000 academic papers" but I'd still like to see them if possible.
I'm of Indian background born in the US and lived here my whole life. But in school for a few years I was put into the ESL program even though I got pretty good grades in English, and fluent in it since I spoke it my whole life.
it happens. I moved from North East USA, NJ to a southern US state when I entered 2nd grade. my teacher was a "southern belle" who spoke very thick "southern drawl" English. Could barely understand her. She thought I was stupid, and stuck me in remedial English (I have above average IQ). I felt bad, but luckily my mom caught on to what was going on during a parent- teacher conference. e.g. words like "fetch, reckon, yonder, ya'all, fixin" etc were alien to me. Words that she spoke differently like yellow. = "yella". had no idea what a "yella" was.... you yelling at me for something ?! it took me awhile for my mind to adapt to the change in what i perceived was a very different and peculiar accent. lastly, im white and my teacher was white at the time.
-- The people posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
@@martinlutherkingjr.5232 we know enough that its a western styled cultural marxist agenda to divide and conquer from within. it utilizes ideological subversion (4 phases of it) per yuri bezmenov, and ex KGB agent who defected to the west. waves and waves of this subversion has been taking place since the 60's. with the indoctorinated being able to infiltrate various sectors of society, govt, education, etc. the results can clearly be seen today in all areas.
A few years ago we probably didn't think we'd have to fight for the principles of freedom and equality we have taken for granted. Turns out we do. As Chris points out, we have everything of value on our side, but we must stand up and be counted. The country is reaching a critical (no pun intended) threshold.
This country is going to hell and your refusal to repent and acknowledge the wrong this country has done will only make it come sooner. A nation of reprobates.
Imagine claiming to fight for "freedom and equality," but yet denying the racist white supremacist foundation of the US. white people vigorously crave being fake oppressed 😒
The human race will never achieve close to Utopia. Isn't it obvious by now? Delusional or alienated individuals/groups may believe that this (the current time) is great enough to be close to Utopia. Less great is better for everyone. Policies do not lead. In the 21st century, we as individuals lead ourselves, with social and custodial guidance, not pressure. Our enlightened selfs will connect to became a social reality complemented by effective custody/governance to keep things harmonized. Those who were misguided or not yet thoroughly guided or cannot be successfully guided will have to be segregated until they can become more enlightened through their own capacity with normal assistance. Segregation in the 21st century is an easy task and should not be misconstrued as unjust or an outdated practice. We are blessed with or were granted the improved essentials such as food, medicine, access to many necessary or unnecessary items to keep us feeling well and pampered, etc, even under segregation.
By the way, we don't have to understand and some cannot understand policies. People have to use logic and reasoning. And we don't have to be super smart, for experience is a good teacher. Reasoning may fail to work well in a state of confusion. Logic requires clarity. Not everything is clear to us, including policies or the current way of life. But we have enough intelligence and intellect to gather whatever is apparent to base our decisions. This collection of information and input that are not fed to us does not lie, for they were apparent and therefore had to be preexisting.
According to Maxwell Maltz, in his book Psycho-Cybernetics: "You will ‘act like’ the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or will power. The man who conceives himself to be a ‘failure-type of person’ will find some way to fail, in spite of all his good intentions, or his will power, even if opportunity is literally dumped in his lap. The person who conceives himself to be a victim of injustice, one ‘who was meant to suffer,’ will invariably find circumstances to verify his opinion." This is why generational poverty is so pernicious and destructive to a community. And, it’s why Critical Race Theory is so evil, particularly when taught to young children. You are teaching them to be life-long failures who believe themselves to be incapable of success. Those who are teaching this don’t care about that, because CRT is a political tool. It’s purpose is to further the cause of Marxism. And if they have to destroy the lives of a few million children to do that, what do they care? Marxists have already proven that human life means nothing to them. Their political system is designed to generate poverty and promote starvation for the masses. But the top leaders of these political systems of failure invariably become members of the uber-rich. When they talk about the transfer of wealth, it’s not from the rich to the poor… it’s from everyone else to them.
"We have successfully frozen their brand-"critical race theory"-into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category." "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans." -- Christopher F. Rufo
Well he’s not wrong. CRT is racist dogma that is a complete cancer. It doesn’t bring people together but rather drives people apart based on outrageous claims with no real evidence. You don’t have to be a conservative to realize this. I’m a borderline liberal.
Here's the historical timeline of leftist academic intellectuals leading up to wokeism and Critical Race Theory. 1920's: The Frankfurt School of Social Theory is founded in Germany. 1950's: Post Modernism is founded in the USA by former Frankfurt School of Social Theorists. 1970's Crtical Theory and its many branches begin.
If we win this fight, you will be remembered in the history books as a leader in the vanguard to save free, classical liberal society, and enlightenment values. God bless you, sir
-- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
@@derrickbell24 Damn. I am actually going to copy these and look them up. The problem is that there are a LOT of people, on both sides of this argument, making comments about "critical race theory", when they had zero ideal of what that is.
I believe in Enlightenment Liberal Values, and the need for a "liberal education" (as I imperfectly understand it)...and I strongly disagree with my fellow liberals who denigrate Western liberal values. But they do rightly point out that for much of it's history, those who were responsible for supplying that Western liberal education, excluded women, non-whites, other minorities. It's up to those of us who believe in the value of that thought system to make sure that it is open to all, equally. even if that means that means being labeled "woke".
@@thethirdchimpanzee I agree with much of what you say, however your critique of western liberal society whilst true-ish through a certain prismatic view of the world, that prism is a world view that only judges part of the planet, and absent the context of the passage of time.
-- The people posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
This is one of the best summations I have seen so far. It describes the situation explicitly, truthfully, and concisely. It also has the best knowledge available about what to do about it. Everything is delivered in an organized and powerfully illustrative manner, with visuals and concrete examples. It's good work. Thank you, Mr. Rufo.
Helps to heal your mind doesn’t it 😄. Still won’t stop the truth about the terrible things white people have done for over 400 years to black people though. It also won’t stop white children and others from learning the truth. How about legislation to ease your guilt or retaliation to make amends to black peoples. God isn’t the the perpetrator of fear.
@@Anointed012 I’m pretty sure everyone with a fourth grade education already knows about slavery and Jim Crow. No one’s arguing about what happened in the past.
@@Anointed012 What about what people of all races have done to people of all races all throughout history? Are we going to ignore all the history that doesn't make so-called white people look bad and just look at history from a racist/anti-so-called white man bad myopic view? You're not anointed and you don't stand for truth. You stand for indoctrination.
@@jacobrose1274 Bull shit. Firstly, most slaves didn't go to so-called white colonies. The slaves owned by so-called white people were treated far better than slaves owned by other people. So-called white people were the first to abolish the practice. Not only did they abolish it but they fought to make it a world wide standard, at a time when everyone owned slaves. This is that inaccurate, myopic view I was referring to. This ideology wishes to demonize, literally the most moral of immoral people, during a time of pure immorality.
@@jacobrose1274 So what exactly are you proposing? Yes, we all know slavery was bad, but it’s over and done with and we’ve come a hell of a long way since then. What’s the point of lingering on it constantly? No one can go back change what was done centuries ago when the world was a very different place.
This short film is a truly remarkable accomplishment of terse explanation and exhortation. Every line cuts through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt and gets to the heart of the matter. With time it has only proven to be more prescient, more urgent. Excellence? Indeed. Thanks, Chris.
@music Pimento not that long ago? Tulsa was in the news because of it’s 100th anniversary I’m not saying that the United States or anywhere else has never been racist. I do say that it’s not predominantly racist now. In fact the United States is one of the least racist places in the world. In spite of what celebrities say, the police are not hunting down black men to kill. You say that “not long ago” blacks didn’t have the right to vote. The voting right act was over 55 years ago. I do enough bad things of my own without apologizing or feeling sorry for things that happened before my great great grandparents were born and I’m old.
-- The racists posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
If you are able, donate to Chris Rufo so he can continue doing this work. Especially if you are unable to speak due to fear of losing your job, consider funding the people who can speak for you.
Hi Mr Ruffo. Do you have a website or somewhere else I can go to find citations for all of the things that you said. I believe that CRT is harmful, but because their writings are so voluminous, I have trouble defining it to my liberal friends. So I basically find myself just repeating what they rightly call conservative talking points. Which, they in turn say that I am just making it all up. So to repeat my question, do you have citations from their own writings? Thanks. P. S. Keep up the good fight.
The answer is no. Rufo, and other white conservatives, are getting upset about a delusion they make up... as usual. In short, CRT is frame for, "studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism,, and power" (Delgado & Stefancic 2012: 3). One of the key analytical frames CRT emphasizes, is that racism is not a personal bias but a social institution that perpetuates white supremacy. Racism is about power, not personal bias.
@@fwp3144 Which is why the racism they claim to be fighting is so systemic, which means that it does not occur necessarily in a person, but in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Which is bunkus. A micro aggression can be literally anything. Anything all all. Which takes it down to nothing other than a perception in the mind of someone who has a dislike for the 'other.' Same thing for that other cute trick - impact versus intent. Whether I claim that what I'm writing right now is an act of aggression based on a wish to belittle, put down, win an argument - or engage in a healthy debate requiring critical thought and the free exchange of words and ideas - if it is claimed to be antagonistic and brimming with an alternative agenda that is racist-based.....and I claim no such intention whatsoever, it does not matter. The 'impact' is all that matters. This breeds a sense of accountability commonly found in toddlers. In this way, does a series of relationships arise whereupon grievance is aided by these bastard children spawned by critical theory. Much as parts of major world religions have been twisted and bent out of shape to justify cruelty and inhumane treatment - the logic is much the same. It happens because that's what humans do. So we're left with the long task of trying to keep the damage reduced to a minimum.
-- The racists posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
@Forrest Taylor Good grief. The beta male energy that emanates from your face. Such a useful idiot of Marxist revolutionaries. You actually believe CRT is a theory advanced in good faith as opposed to an assault on the fundamental tenants of the American system. Your extreme lack of vigilance is no surprise however, considering your obviously low levels of testosterone. The beta males are never aware of the serious threats.
Yeah, that’s specifically what they are trying to do. Look more into it. You will find that it’s been around for decades, it’s only being tough in university law schools, and it has nothing to do with what they are telling you it does. Now ask yourself why they are lying to you!
@john bonjovie Not gonna argue with it. But please remember. Slavery was a generally accepted fact for thousands of years. Only in the past 300 years did people start saying, is this right? When you have righteous anger and start finger pointing, you got three pointed back at you. But for me it’s simple. Black People got screwed. Now what are we gonna do about it without following Leftist Loon Think?
Why do some Americans describe this as crt? Even Chris rufo described some of the disconcerting things as “crt as practiced today” rather than actual crt. Seems very confusing
There's a lot of questions I have about CRT. 1. Are albino Africans black? 2. How is all white people the same? For instance an Italian, American and a Norweegan? 3. Is there a color chart to grade one's skin color? 4. Who has more victim points a slave from 200 years ago or the slaves in Africa right now?
1) yes, 2&3) think of a white slave owner from the 1850s - if he would call you white you’re white 4) and it doesn’t matter we live in america and if you love america you should care about the equality of all it’s citizens
@@WithDeionB You know the color of the people who sold the slaves to these white people back then? So if a white albino African is black and we all descended from Africa then that would make us all black by this logic? You do realise that some indigenous Italians have a dark skin right? So are they white too or are we looking for other features becides skin color? What does CRT say about DNA how much % makes you black or white? I am simply pointing out how dumb CRT is. Peace
Thank GOD, you have made this Chris. I was literally just thinking how badly we needed a well presented 20m documentary on what CRT is and precisely why we need to band against it.
-- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
@@derrickbell24 Thank you. This is a fantastic list of questions. I'm not sure 99% of people need to have this much information regarding legal cases, but some of the other components on tenants and history are quite important. Going to come up with succint answers on all of these.
As terrifying as this sounds for America, just imagine what it sounds like to a white South African. In my country less than 9% of the population is white, so identity politics and racial policies are already rife. Government failures are routinely blamed on 'white monopoly capital', and the abolition of (white) property rights is a topic of serious discussion at the highest levels of government.
That’ll someday be our future too if this idea of hating others based on skin color and crimes of the past that current people are innocent of continues. Because in the near future white people won’t be the majority of the population of the US. Hatred no matter from who is bad. We are all human and all related. All part of the same human family. It was also very likely that we would marry into different families in the future, which is natural. “Race” is a concept that hasn’t always existed. And it’s not worth hating each other over. I grew up in the 90s and people were treated as equals. We were happy. I know of people with different skin color that got married from my high school. I miss the 90s so much. It was a much better time. Where people really did focus on character versus background. Didn’t matter if you were rich, poor, black or white. If you were a nice kid other kids wanted to play with you. If you were mean, then other kids didn’t want to play. I grew up with a disability I struggled with too but even I made great friends in high school. I really really miss those times.
What a great video. I have been trying to read all the academic books and papers. I have an Master's degree from a very liberal university (20 years ago now), and it was hard for me wrap my head around, much less try to explain it. This video is going out to all my friends and trusted coworkers. Thank you for your courage!!
Check under "Lost Cause", "Dunning School", "Southern Strategy" and "Goebels - The big lie", all excellent propaganda training manuals for right-wingnuts.
Thank you for breaking down so well. As a teacher and a parent CRT is one of my biggest fears for today’s youth which includes my own children. I hope the values i have always instilled in them will hold strong. As for the teacher side of it..I won’t teach it, I will stand up against it. Again thank you for this great video!
-- The racists posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
-- If you can't answer these basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? Who started Critical Race Theory? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? What are a few of Christopher Rufo's lies about Critical Race Theory? What Neo-Nazi conspiracy theory has Christopher Rufo incorporated into his Anti-Critical Race Theory propaganda?
Okay...so how do we as a people described in The Declaration of Independence go about telling the factual truth of America? If I do it, it comes downs to "facts don't care about your feelings."
@@kittyykatie -- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
-- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
Republicans are doing to the unemployed actually is explained by classic Marxism. Let me explain. In his magnum opus Capital, Marx argued that a capitalist system will more-or-less automatically produce a population of surplus workers. Businesses become more productive through greater capital investment, which will require more workers in some areas but far fewer in others, and hence this process will always tend to to create an "industrial reserve army" of surplus labor - that is, the unemployed. This reserve army is very important for classical capitalism. It "becomes … the lever of capitalistic accumulation, nay, a condition of existence of the capitalist mode of production." The reason is that businesses are constantly changing the way they operate, and so always need a large supply of idle workers to fling into new projects on a moment's notice: The mass of social wealth, overflowing with the advance of accumulation, and transformable into additional capital, thrusts itself frantically into old branches of production, whose market suddenly expands, or into newly formed branches, such as railways, &c., the need for which grows out of the development of the old ones. In all such cases, there must be the possibility of throwing great masses of men suddenly on the decisive points without injury to the scale of production in other spheres. This industrial reserve army also allows capitalists to better exploit the people they do employ, because it exerts a "competition" that forces workers "to submit to overwork and to subjugation under the dictates of capital."
@music Pimento You don’t get it. You are in favor of the indoctrination of children, make them think they are bad for being white, make them feel guilty for nothing. You are in favor of that same thing you are against but once the white people are the affected ones then you don’t care? You are a hypocrite. You don’t know how to change the racist mindset. You don’t change it with racism. No.
@music Pimento Nobody said racism was not a big part of America's history, including Rufo. In fact, at one point in this video, he said there is no denying that racism is a part of American history. Looking at your examples: 1. Jim Crow laws are all abolished; 2) any new home owners association contract that includes a race restrictive covenant is illegal and if any contract has such a provision, states or federal attorneys general would (and should) bring actions to eliminate those covenants from the contracts; and 3) nobody today disputes that what happened in Tulsa 100 years ago was an inexcusable tragedy. Today, while there are individuals of all races who are racist, America by law and Constitution is color-blind. Its principles are to give all citizens equal treatment and opportunity regardless of the citizens' race(s). Critical race theory says to a little kid who has never caused anyone any harm in his life that because of the color of his skin, he is either an privileged oppressor or a oppressed victim. That is absurdity of the first order. Teaching kids that their integrity, industriousness and character are what define them as people is far more productive. Also, anyone who supports the idea of a Department of Anti-Racism which could review and nullify laws without oversight wants to live in an Orwellian hell.
@music Pimento First, you are saying that the people who implement the laws are racist. That is a ridiculous generalization. What is the percentage of the those who are racist? How are the systems racist? I hear a lot of screaming that America's "systems" are racist and next to no examples. And please don't pull this "I am glad you recognize America's racist history" nonsense with me. That is a typical leftist method of making it look like someone who disagrees with you actually agrees with you. I said racism is part of America's history, not that its history is racist. America's history covers a lot of ground and this country is not completely grounded in racism. And you're damn right I don't agree with teaching kids that racism infects our systems. First, as I said, individuals in the systems may be racist, but that does not mean that the racism is all pervasive in the systems. Secondly, these angry little neo-Marxists don't want to to teach kids that racism has to one degree or another infected systems of governance or economics, but to teach them they are harming others or are themselves being harmed based on qualities over which they have no control. Kids should be taught a thorough and honest form of history, math, science and English. Any socialization lessons should be based on integrity, decency and respect for all regardless of race, religion, etc. If these dimwits in education did that, race would not be a national obsession any more and people like Nikole Hannah Jones would be irrelevant. Instead this country has an obsession with race thanks to neo-Marxists who realized that America lacked the necessary class tension.
-- The people posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
Brilliant in your clarity... this stuff just snuck up on us, CRT is nasty, insidious, frightening and so obviously wrong I’m shocked anyone can by into it.
-- The racists posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
Are you wanting to erase history or ignore it because it assumes a collective guilt that you feel should be amended? instead of rectifying it? The slave trade, their lives as slaves, and their treatment after should not be spoken off because it happened when you were not alive and it shames your race? So should all history be erased? including the story of how the settlers landed in Plymouth rock and all the way through the revolutionary war? Is this "collective guilt" the fact that you descend from racist and you want to ignore it and perceive it never happened? African American's should just ignore that they descend from slaves that were victims of human trafficking, sex trafficking, and inhumane living conditions.....so whites in 2021 can feel better about themselves? Is it that Critical Race theory is such a "threat" because It points out unequal outcomes of systems and institutions. Admitting that a certain group benefits does not place blame or impose guilt, unless you refuse to acknowledge and help dismantle those unequal systems....a ploy to stay the dominant race and relevant?
The truth isn't getting out off the internet forums. The MSM at least in Canada is all in on communism ruling Canada. Far too many people tell me they never hear about this stuff except from me. Most do not believe me or think I'm over stating the issue. Meanwhile this is being taught to their children. It's in every hospital and school. It's in the bureaucracy. Even the the questions they ask. "Do you identify as indigenous?" That's only a question you can answer if you are indoctrinated. It's a political question. Everyone is blind to it. Canadians have been failed by their media. If any independant says anything and tries to disparage CRT they are removed and silenced. The other problem Canada has are the people that are speaking out against it are scumbags opportunists and liars in their own right. CRT is bad enough you don't need to lie. It's like they are only acting like they are against it.
@music Pimento Hes not denying Jim crow laws,, hes also not denying that some Americans were and are racist. This video isn't about racism, it's specifically about critical race theory which has little to do with actual racism. Racism has become so politicized and convoluted through CRT that we don't know who's actually racist versus who's not. According to critical race theory “racism = prejudice + power” but this is a convoluted definition because it's often interpreted in colleges to mean that only white people can be racist. Which is wrong. I could go on and on.
@@DavidL-wd5pu little to none of the things he said are factual, to the point where it makes me feel as though this person knows that what hes saying is incorrect, yet he still does this for views and his political agenda.
Although I think you overplay the Marxist influence at the beginning, I appreciated how you drew the distinction between Premise and Conclusion at around the 10 minute mark. I have been trying to articulate something similar to people who are absolutely vehement about decrying CRT. I would like to bridge the divide between those who abhor the conclusions of CRT (as you call them -- I'd call them the forms of its implementation) and those who see hope for positive change (not Marxist change) by bringing to light the premises of CRT. Your video from 10:46 to 12:51 in particular may help me do that in my own circle of influence.
Don't waste your time with Rufo, he is a political operative gaslighting CRT. You are on the right track, keep doing your own research, you will not find any Marxism in CRT; it is not concerned with economic systems. Here is the link to a 3rd party explanation as opposed to you depending on my objectivity. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vLBapXx9sTs.html
There are so many absurd claims in this video that I don't even know where to begin. Rufo misrepresents both CRT and "American ideals". All this is pure propaganda and a complete waste of time.
@@danwohlslagel1277 This is a long video so there is just too much to debunk. However, one example occurs at around 11:00 where he admits that racism has permeated all of American history but then goes on to state that CRT's conclusion is that racism can be overcome only through " moral political and economic revolution" is false. He gives no alternative solution and what's more clearly states that this conclusion cannot and should not be debated "academically". Translated into simple English this means that he understands that debate is not the way to go as both CRT's premises and conclusions are correct--he just doesn't like how this theory is being applied practically and all of his examples are just that--examples of CRT being applied in a stupid way by public institutions and corporate hr depts. Moreover, he conflates CRT with other concepts like intersectionality and identity politics which have very little to do with either Marx or Marcuse. In general his whole take is just a rehash of the old absurd argument that "CRT is Marxism which is bad because look at Stalin and Mao". Complete nonsense--like me saying Capitalism is bad because look at King Leopold in the Belgian Congo in the 19th century or Haiti under the Duvalier regime, two extreme examples of unfettered capitalism in action.
@@randomepic6204 Moving the goal post? From where to where? If anyone is moving goal posts, it's this guy. From respected academicians like Foucault and Marcuse to shameless grifters like Robin De angelo and a wide variety of MSNBC pundits.
Not really. dude nailed what crt is in its practice within our society. People claim one thing about it but the practice and everything being executed is spot on. Most who believe it are convinced it's one thing, but the way they're executing it, teaching it, and the fruits and other results coming from it are damning.
A few points are missing from this excellent video. The entire woke ideology is being pushed by the academic/professional class, I would argue in a divide and conquer strategy against regular people. They do this in an effort to get people to obsess about ra ce (which is no longer a significant source of inequality in America) and entirely ignore CLASS (which is OBVIOUSLY still the major source of inequality in America). The academic/professional class, thus, also gets to pretend to itself that it is on the side of the downtrodden, even while it implements policies that actually harm the working-/lower-middle-classes (e.g., op en im mig ration by un-/low-skilled workers, whom the professional class hires as domestic servants at sla ve wages). Also, if the political system is focused on alleviation of class-based inequalities, this would likely cause the professional/academic class to be taxed for the benefit of the less fortunate. If the focus is, instead, on ra ce, then the academic/professional class gets to, as I said, pretend it's on the side of the weak (by public proclamations of how--don't make me laugh--"anti-ra cist" they are), without it costing them a dime. The religion of Woke-ism is a disgusting, dishonest ideology, but it cloaks itself, absurdly and transparently, in a veneer of moralism. It's a scam, both on the country at large and also on the class that is pushing it
very observant, The Rich want us fighting amongst ourselves and not focusing on them; that's why you see Oprah Winfrey (billionaire) interviewing Lebron (going to be a billionairee) and Bill Gates (was richest man b4 divorce) talking about how unfair and racist the country is. In fact one of the reasons companies have gone along with this is; they realize it distracts from all their wealth and it's easier to just pay some money to "consultants" and groups like BLM and force propaganda on their workers than actually clean up their own company or take a look at maybe their board is a little too white or the C-suite isn't so diverse - but you don't see them giving up their titles, stock options or country club memberships anytime soon, do you?
I do not think anyone understands the importance of civilizations and the meaningful factors that carry a well-stabilized society based on perspective, behaviors, and ultimately, morality. This is no attack for some fraudulent country that desires the means of commerce or some ideology that neglects a selective few of people (minorities) because well, patriotism is rooted in the origins of america and if ANYONE knows history, america is/was not the best. This comes to the utmost cruciality of what makes a society moral, logical, and stable and that comes with understanding LITERALLY how humans function and behave individually and collectively. If we cannot understand these variables, how are we to better ourselves and each other if we are completely unaware of how to connect or to solve issues with blatant negligence/ignorance? Critical Race Theory is seriously needed only to combat the passivity and normalized semantics, laws, jokes, and any other subliminal means that attack everyone from succeeding. Race was never supposed to be an issue until it did by considering the darker skinned people or anyone without "wealthy" qualities as low or plebs. Race is indeed a social construct but not what it should be in this modern civilization. Why do you think a majority of minorities are fighting for these rights? Why do you think this idea of CRT began? It is simple cause and effect which was taught in grade school. Like c'mon. I do not even go to school and this seriously gets on my nerves. Why must it be that negativity is spewed so hastily on different opinions when it can be taken maturely and through an approach that compromise is on the brink in the end of such argument? Not to be bias, but these motives further suggest that people are scared over the dominance of the minority becoming the majority. I could say "what happened to the land of the free?" or such a like that would contradict many from the values you take in from this stubborn, sovereign place. Feel free to leave questions or responses that do not entail negativity. It will not be tolerated and left unanswered.
Thank you. Im glad there's people like you who are able to speak about this. I wish I had a platform. This all comes down to haters. Common sense tells me ghetto poor people are the ones complaining. I'm poor but not ghetto. Rich and middle class don't complain. People with manors and respect don't complain. People who are educated don't complain. Have a great day. And Thanks again for your videos.
There is a movie, Agenda: Grinding America Down, directed by Curtis Bowers, that tells the fuller, more complete history of the problem. I recommend it highly.
There are interviews by Yuri Bezmenov ex-K G B agent and defector to the West, who was talking about cultural subversion decades ago. He warned the West with chilling accuracy about what we see today. Look his interviews up here on YT! Many have tried to preserve them. It’s a must see!
Watching it now, very informative. I have the book The Naked Communist and have read it long ago. It is sad that so many people have no clue and no interest to understand the problem. Truely they are the frog in a pot of water and now the water is almost at a boil.
Is Yuri Bezmenov a time traveler? Dude's lecture was extremely accurate to what's happening today. Also, why are we Asians also oppressors? I get it that we're more successful than any Race in America, but that's just because hardwork is engraved in Asian Culture.
That is exactly why you are labeled as oppressors. BLM and racists on the left dont want you successful and financially independent, they want you poor, uneducated and totally dependent on the government. Besides, by being successful you make blacks look bad.
This guy? Nah he isn't far right. He's just another basic bitch conservative bitching about the evils of "socialism" rather than admitting the wholesale attack on whites that this kind of shit really represents.
@music Pimento So because some white dudes run a state then the whole state is full of bunch of racist?, and by the way what are you trying to say here?
@music Pimento Maybe because white people are the population majority. Population Majority does not equal White Supremacy. White Supremacy hasn't been relevant for decades.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.” - MLK
Yes, bring back the Progressive Income Tax. When any group can buy legislation they like, hell yes, there is something wrong. But PLEASE, don’t go leftist loon. Had enough of it in the 60-70’s. Also, BREAK UP THE TRUSTS! Wait, that was so 1890’s. Try what some Conservative guy said during the Great Recession, “If banks are too big to fail, they are too big.”
@@jasonvillarruel Go back in time, and we all had something stolen from us by another nation or tribe....repeatedly throughout History. It's time to end tribalism and to start seeing everyone as members of the same tribe--the tribe of all living organisms on this planet. But, unfortunately, that's way too progressive for the regressive professors on our university campuses.
@@markriley5784 you do realize that im referring to wealth billionaires are stealing currently, not hundreds of years ago in a textbook. but yeah, capitalism's enslavement of workers, and making them fight head to head against each other in the circus of politics, is the opposite of tribalism, right? theres a reason why redistribution was appealing to MLK. it is abandoning the mentality of sacrificing humanity for profit, and instead embracing a society that focuses on the needs of those in suffering, and a society that progresses collectively.
9:00 I was not able to find a survey conducted by Gallup with these results. I did, however, find these numbers in a survey published by the Cato Institute. While that fact does not invalidate the entire video, misrepresenting a source _is_ a form of plagiarism, whether done intentionally or not. You need to be more careful in the future.
I'd encourage you to look for more evidence for the so-called 'facts' he mentions. Many of the definitions he gives are lies easily debunked by a casual Google search.
Well, he didn't accurately explain the genesis of CRT with regard to Marxism. It actually ties closer to the marxian concept of 'ideology' rather than the proletarian/bourgeois divide. Which is a pretty blatant misunderstanding of the concept as a whole. If you want to push an ideology, feel free I suppose. If you want to provide an accurate critique of CRT, I'd keep looking
Can you post references, specifically backup to the claim that CRT believes equality is a smokescreen for white supremacy? This is a powerful anti-American point but I need the primary source.
It's funny that when you look at this guy's website his links, for the most part, link to him as a source...very little is from anyone or anything other than himself.
All the content creators really need to start sourcing quotes. If you're going to speak on behalf of someone or something, provide a source. It's too easy to ignore. Especially at a time where people provide nonsensical claims without any substantiation.
The fact that this high quality video was produced by someone else rather than me is proof that meritocracy is real and alive and indeed the very basic of successful videos and view count rankings on this very medium.
I cannot thank you enough for being the beacon of truth about CRT. I have grandchildren who are starting school and I want them to learn how great it is to live in this country.
-- According to a Critical Race Theory Scholar at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, if you can't answer all of the following basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you really don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? What did Professor Herbert Wechsler's questioning of whether the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education could be justified on the basis of "neutral" principles, have to do with the origination of Critical Race Theory? Who originated Critical Race Theory? What was the problem that led to the origination of Critical Race Theory? Why did the originator of Critical Race Theory believe the Supreme Court shouldn't have reversed Plessy v. Ferguson? How did the Godfather of Critical Race Theory shatter the shining image of a celebrated Supreme Court civil rights ruling? What is the Interest-Convergence Dilemma? What was “The Alternative Course?” Did Critical Race Theory embrace Critical Legal Studies, or did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies? What was the first institutional expression of Critical Race Theory? Did Critical Race Theory reject Critical Legal Studies' deconstruction of liberalism, or embrace and build on it? When did Critical Race Theory become a movement? Who coined the term "Critical Race Theory" and what did the term mean? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What distinguishes Critical Race Theory from from Critical Legal Studies? Can legal scholarship be neutral and objective? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? Who are the faces at the bottom of the well? Who are the Space Traders? What are silent covenants? Is Critical Race Theory a noun or a verb? In one sentence, why did critical race theory began as a legal concept in the 1970s?
-- The people posting criticism of Critical Race Theory don't know jack squat about it. The way I see it, if they can't answer the following very easy basic questions about Critical Race Theory correctly, they can't possible have well informed opinions on the topic. According to Richard Delgado, what is Critical Race Theory? According to Richard Delgado how is Critical Race Theory unlike traditional civil rights? According to Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory sprang up as a number of lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized what? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Antonio Gramsci? According to Richard Delgado, what did Critical Race Theory draw from Martin Luther King, Jr.? According to Richard Delgado what did Critical Race Theory borrow from critical legal studies?
@@derrickbell24 Jesus Christ, what kind of movement requires you to "only" be able to answer 23 questions to know its "basics"? Obviously this is a disingenuous psychological tactic.
@Forrest Taylor Ah yes... Tu quo que fallacy. "Capitalism" isn't starving anybody. "Capitalism" funds programs to help homeless and charities typically if not starting their own. What stops these organizations from being even more effective is from governmental red tape and hilarious people like you who just have a personal disposition to capitalism rather than a education in economics. But go to the streets and scream your chants in protests, that's all you're good for. Stay out of actual discussion it doesn't suit you.
@ Chris: here is my post from today on Facebook. I have no followers or notoriety (not looking for any) and have been following you for a short period..thought you may appreciate this post and the term I coined...as semantics are important in this battle (wokesplaining): Please do not read if you are offended by intellectual thought and debate of ideas (my post): I have taken a hiatus from posting on political topics out of fear of alienating friends and the limited number of customers on Facebook - who are not following (Critical Race Theory), Wokeism, Marxism - as it relates to what is happening in our schools, colleges, universities and in day to day interactions. But today is a new day, one that touched a nerve. As a liberal in CA, I have found myself more and more at odds with the far left over topics like CRT, free speech/first amendment identity politics, and as what I see as a deep hatred for the US, democracy and all that it encompasses. I have found myself in opposition with close family members (like my mom), who do not seem to understand CRT, Marxism, as well as identity politics drones in LA - they appear to not understand or want to learn much about what they are advocating. I have subscribed to American authors like Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan, and similar liberals like myself who call being woke what it is: kryptonite to liberalism, rationalism, democracy and freedom of thought and ideas. The nerve that was touched today? Let's begin with debate and discussion....when you attempt an honest, respectful discussion on CRT, wokeism and generally ask why they seem to hate this country so much, you are bombarded with an online dox by people who point to your race as the center of their criticism - not subject matter, ideology, or something political or religions based. Instead, you are told, as a white man/person, anything you say doesn't matter because it's inherently racist, and you are a far right lunatic (liberal last time I checked). Today's nerve... I was debating a topic with a far woke left ideolog who called me a fake patriot and that my military service was meaningless because I was brainwashed to serve the evil imperial US power. I noted that I find it interesting how so many successful people hate this country on the far left, yet have reaped the benefits of all it has to offer. I asked, "if it's so terrible here, what does everyone still want to come?"....crickets...these people have no context as to what is happening globally, instead, I was told I was a privileged white man whose opinion does not matter because I am "irredeemable" and inherently racist. Everything I do holds those marginalized back and I would not understand because I am white...hmmmm...so I am being judged by the color of my skin and not my character? Sounds at odds with someone I know in history... So, after deep thought, I came up with the following term which I think explains the racist cult many of these people are tied to, wokeism: Wokesplaining: when someone from the "far left" identity politics movement "attempts" to assume, define and summarize your life experiences through their ideological lens, as part of a concerted agenda aimed at deconstructing, destabilizing, and destroying your self worth and value and voice as a contributing human being to modern Western society, in both the U.S. and abroad. In closing, I will admit that these far left wokesters are not the majority, or the majority of the Democratic party for that matter (about 15 percent). But, they are the loudest and their ideology, like Marxism and CRT, are becoming common place and are further using race and tribalism to destroy the one last great democracy in the world. Last time I checked, liberalism was defined as: willingness to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; openness to new ideas". That is not being woke.
@Forrest Taylor disagree completely, Andrew Sullivan has a long essay out yesterday that talks deeply about these things. What I find is people on the left don't want to talk about the details and usually respond with BS like this.. wokeism is happening, there was just a report yesterday in Washington heights of a principal under fire for trying to purge all the white teachers she's under investigation now. Critical race theories being shoved down the throat of kids everywhere and it's made its way through corporate as well as government institutions. I'm happy to debate this with you live if you like and I can have examples queued up from all over the country. And prove to you why writers like Barri Weiss and Andrew Sullivan are spot on.
@Forrest Taylor that's usually what people on the left say, those that refuse to think for themselves. I've been a lifelong Democrat and this is the first year I probably will not be voting Democrat I'll be looking at each individual candidate on specific issues... And Christopher ruffo is not a blogger he's a lawyer and an activist who's done some amazing work pushing back against critical race theory.. again, another token term by the left using cult instead of actually talking about the issues specifically. Here's a link to that article from yesterday about white teachers being purged, this is happening across the country right now. nypost.com/2021/07/10/washington-heights-school-staffers-have-no-confidence-in-principal-paula-lev-after-race-flap?
-- If you can't answer these basic questions about Critical Race Theory, you don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion on the subject. In one sentence, what is Critical Race Theory? Who started Critical Race Theory? What are the key tenets of Critical Race Theory? What philosophical currents does Critical Race Theory draw from? What is the goal of the Critical Race Theory movement? Is race biologically real or is it socially constructed? What are a few of Christopher Rufo's lies about Critical Race Theory? What Neo-Nazi conspiracy theory has Christopher Rufo incorporated into his Anti-Critical Race Theory propaganda?
Actually it helps as Rufo's BS lies about what CRT is might engage a few parents but the vast majority of people are now aware of Rufo"s big lie and how powerful the real CRT is in identifying and remediating bias. Thanks for publicity.
This is the best ever understanding of crt I have ever heard. Read it so u understand what it's really about, every segment as the video pauses and then continues about 4 times.
5:33 If that's true, then that is by defintion Facism that Ibram Kendi was proposing. Plus it is racist by defintion (while self labelling it as "anti racism"). That is just like how Adolf Hitler claimed to be a Socialist. So facism + the concept of Hitler's "Jewery" replaced with "whiteness".
This is why I’m truly moderate. This is heavily right side biased, though I think that’s the point, but it makes almost carbon copy arguments that the left does just with different picked out examples. Both side really just argue around each other because neither wants to give a full picture. I think that’s because it’s a lot more complex than we’d like it to be, so both sides dumb it all down for themselves and the public
As a veteran CA teacher I was mandated to attend 50 hours of professional development on Critical Race Theory, Culturally Responsive Instruction/Discipline/Grading and Diversity,Equity and Inclusion by my school district West Contra Costa Unified School District. Efforts to openly debate these were met with personal attacks and intolerance. Big money has been paid out to Dr.Lori Watson, Sherroky Hollie and others for training teachers, administrators, all other district staff and the various school committees in these views. Excellence in education has been rejected. Cultural transformation is the official goal in WCCUSD in Contra Costa County California.
Context! Thank you. It was observed in the 60s that you don't find the champions of reason and logic clogging the streets with their bodies. This is not new. It just has a new "skin."
The video is an excellent analysis of the roots and consequences of critical race theory - thank you. Perhaps future editions could include the toxic effects of CRT in the military -- a problem being addressed by Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep. Dan Bishop, Rep. Mike Waltz, and many others. Elaine Donnelly, Pres., Center for Military Readiness
"Perhaps future editions could include the toxic effects of CRT in the military" I'm hoping they do. Nothing will ever ruin this conservative bullshit propaganda faster than going after the US military.
There are only two types of people in this world; those that are prepared to work, and those that are lazy. The lazy ones want everything handed to them on a silver platter; the working ones (rarest) are prepared to get off their asses and actually put effort into achieving their goals. If the lazy ones (majority) don't get out fo the way then they get bulldozed out of the way. It's pointless them crying like babies, no one is listening.
Dear Mr. Rufo, God Bless & God Speed! You have opened my eyes, and given me the knowledge necessary to stand up against what I have known, in both my intellect and viscera, to be incorrect, abusive, and a dire threat to actual democracy and human rights. Courage, man, COURAGE!
