The term Critical Race Theory is not the best use of terms

[Stir Fry]

 

[NobodyReally]

It's a legal theory used to frame how cases are examined. You probably don't know what a theory or framework is.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

It's a legal theory used to frame how cases are examined. You probably don't know what a theory or framework is.

that’s irrelevant. Furthermore, if you have to explain it that much, that’s a problem. I obviously know what it means and the premise behind it all, but most people don’t. Poorly educated people who vote don’t. So you can make up whatever you want to them and they will believe it.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Well duh. Plus looking at it from a PR point of view, it sounds like some ominous foolishness.

This is why MAGA folks are so successful in using it to activate their base.

This more than anything is why them fool democrats about to get beat like a cheating hoe in these next elections.

Well yeah this is why activists shouldn’t make slogans: defund the police

 

[saturn7]

Hear it from the man himself.

 

[ColdSlither]

The thing is it's always something. What term is the best to use so that racist cacs can't turn around and make it the new boogeyman term? What's going to make them say, "Okay dude you got me. I can't counter that." While I do agree that phrasing matters, what this is about is telling history for what it is and that's going to get push back regardless.

 

[RARI_Godwind]

I always thought they should’ve used it and any other concept names as a Trojan horse and switch it up whenever Cacs slow ass finally accept the language

 

[Will Ross]

CRT is not about the history. it’s a white liberal ego boost.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

In emperical/scientific fields "theory" doesnt mean the same thing it does in odinary convo. "Theory" in ordinary convo is no better than a hunch/hypothesis.


Theory in academic matters, is a large body of hypothesis and observations that have stood the test of time after repeated reflections/challenges by peers in that academic field of interest. You'd be suprised how many common sense concepts are still theories. For example, in academic discourse, "gravity" is still a theory. Same could be said for the common sense "oxygen theory of combustion" which simply states that oxygen can stoke a flame or the "theory of heleocentrism" which states that we do indeed orbit the sun.


So because CRT came from academia, just like these other theories , it is still phrased using academic lexicon.

I came in to mention this. Most laymen equivocate theory as an (unproven) hypothesis.

All in all this is one of the more ambitious right wing psyops I've witnessed in my life.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

CRT is not about the history. it’s a white liberal ego boost.

Huh?

 

[Crayola Coyote]

It’s just a way for white supremacists to try and stifle the education of the youth on just how factually and institutionally racist, oppressive, and demonic they were to non-whites for hundreds of years.

Country was stolen with genocide and built on slavery and oppression. All they can do is put their fingers in their ears, close their eyes, and say “nuh uuhhhhhh”

THIS

 

[Emoryal]

that’s irrelevant. Furthermore, if you have to explain it that much, that’s a problem. I obviously know what it means and the premise behind it all, but most people don’t. Poorly educated people who vote don’t. So you can make up whatever you want to them and they will believe it.

It's an academic field of study, it's supposed to be explained. It's not for you or your voting brethren

 

[Loose]

Gotta stop giving things names like this, its just American history.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Gotta stop giving things names like this, its just American history.

Honestly, this is why I always supported "Black Lives matter" as a thing, but hated the name. I literally saw the evolution on social media within hours from "black lives matter" to "white/police/all lives matter"

It was INSTANT.

A poor slogan will kill the entire campaign.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Honestly, this is why I always supported "Black Lives matter" as a thing, but hated the name. I literally saw the evolution on social media within hours from "black lives matter" to "white/police/all lives matter"

It was INSTANT.

A poor slogan will kill the entire campaign.