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I'm hoping that you could explain without using a single buzzword or a conservative talking point what CRT is.
So you want to go back to Herbert Marcusa, the Frankfurt school, Michelle Fuko, Jacqu Derida, my question.
No, I'm just asking you how far back do you want me to go?
I want you to explain what CRT is. What CRT is comes out of critical theory, which came out of the Frankfurt school, which is a belief that there are systems that exist both institutionally and systemically, and that through critical theory, which also has critical law theory, through the kind of the changing of how we view society, must be through a racial lens and not through an economic lens or through a legal lens.
And if you look very clearly at the writings of Marcusa, at the writings of Spinosa, especially in the early 1990s where this started to pop up, there was this idea that we must give preference based on the melanin content of people's skin, not on actions, not on choices. And instead, because America is so unequal, because it is so inequitable, that these writers and authors that were the beginning people that actually started this term critical race theory 50 or 60 years ago, believe that this would be a true Marxist type movement that would help happen in this country.
It was kind of fostered and started in many different universities across this country. Marcusa came from the Frankfurt School, and it really kind of comes back to a couple beliefs that CRT believes in to make it overly simple. Number one, that there is no such thing as absolute truth. That number two, power dynamics are more important than anything else. Number three, skin color should be something that has a top priority in how we characterize people and their worth and their dignity. Number four, that kind of American history and kind of how we teach it is completely wrong. Five, that America is systemically racist. And I could continue from that.
That right there is a 35,000 foot view. Happy to go deeper. Um, but that is the history of critical race theory and it's evolved into terms of wokeism, diversity, equity, inclusion, the idea of America being systemically racist, 1619 project. They're all outgrowths of the postmodern deconstructionist type viewpoint that started in the 1960s from Marcusa, who was a Marxist type believer in the Frankfurt school, was expelled, found doicile here in America and implemented in our colleges. How'd I do?