What is critical race Theory? Grigori's there?
A, I'm supposed to be nice to it.
Critical race Theory describes itself as a movement, which is
an odd thing for a theory to describe itself as.
But as a movement that tries to to re assess the relationship
between race racism and Power in society.
And that's a very friendly way to put it.
It's a view that takes the position that race racism.
Um, is systemic in society. It's not a matter of necessarily
of individual intention or individual action.
Although certainly individuals can act or be racist or act in
rhesus ways. But it views racism, ultimately,
as a system that operates in society.
Every level whether that's through individual actions,
whether through social norms with the Stewart way that we we
talk, and think about things, whether it's what we consider
knowledge, whether it's our institutions, whether it's
criminal justice. Or whether that's cooling or any
other institution that you might imagine the government itself,
every level, every single thing as racism taken as its ordinary
State of Affairs, according to pray for a story.
That's the first underlying Assumption of critical race.
Theory. Racism is the ordinate, systemic
and the ordinary State of Affairs in society.
Not an aberration from them. So racism is the default.
In other words, guilty until proven, innocent of racism in
any circumstance. It's a very worrying ideology.
There are lots of Other principles we could talk about
in detail. However long you want to go on
about it, but it's a very worrying ideology that I think
Libertarians and particular should be aware of and concerned
about because it's pretty inimical to libertarian thought
completely in the first of all, it's collectivist.
It separates people. According to racial categories
and asks them to consider themselves as Representatives or
avatars of racial collectives. So it's collectivist in that
sense. It's not individualist.
But it also, this is a statement that I can quote, pretty close
to from memory from from the book, critical race Theory, an
introduction, which was written by two critical race theory
states, that have some significance, Richard Delgado,
and jeans to fonczek and on page.
Three, literally the first paragraph, they say that were
destroyed by critical race theory, is they say that unlike
traditional approaches to civil rights, which favored,
incremental progress, and step-by-step progress, critical
race Theory. Hutchins.
A very foundations of the liberal order and by liberal
here, we actually mean the same thing, the other countries call
libertarian or a liberal and libertarian, very similar
talking about Classical liberalism, at its at its roots.
And what do they name? As the very foundations of
liberal order they say, including equality Theory.
So we're going to question equality.
They list legal reasoning. So rule of law, Enlightenment
rationalism. So, the idea that human beings
are rational agents who can set their own course, it's going to
be question. It's very The last they list the
neutral principles of constitutional law.
So, we're going to question the area of constitutional law, and
especially the idea of applying. It neutrally without say
Identity or race-based Consciousness attached to it on
page 23 of that book. They start out a rather ominous
paragraph with saying crits, meaning critical race.
Theory, assists are, highly suspicious of another liberal
Mainstay namely rights. And that's a direct quote.
They are so highly suspicious of Rights.
So, they're collectivist ideology that uses race as its
collectivist proxy. That's highly suspicious of
things like constitutional law, rationalism, equality, rule of
law, in particular and rights individual rights.