1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,700 What is critical race Theory? Grigori's there? 2 00:00:03,700 --> 00:00:06,000 A, I'm supposed to be nice to it. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:12,100 Critical race Theory describes itself as a movement, which is 4 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:14,500 an odd thing for a theory to describe itself as. 5 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:19,400 But as a movement that tries to to re assess the relationship 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,100 between race racism and Power in society. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,100 And that's a very friendly way to put it. 8 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:29,800 It's a view that takes the position that race racism. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,800 Um, is systemic in society. It's not a matter of necessarily 10 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:36,200 of individual intention or individual action. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:41,500 Although certainly individuals can act or be racist or act in 12 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:44,500 rhesus ways. But it views racism, ultimately, 13 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,200 as a system that operates in society. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,800 Every level whether that's through individual actions, 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,600 whether through social norms with the Stewart way that we we 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,700 talk, and think about things, whether it's what we consider 17 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,000 knowledge, whether it's our institutions, whether it's 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,900 criminal justice. Or whether that's cooling or any 19 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:05,099 other institution that you might imagine the government itself, 20 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:10,100 every level, every single thing as racism taken as its ordinary 21 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:12,100 State of Affairs, according to pray for a story. 22 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,200 That's the first underlying Assumption of critical race. 23 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,600 Theory. Racism is the ordinate, systemic 24 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,600 and the ordinary State of Affairs in society. 25 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,400 Not an aberration from them. So racism is the default. 26 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,700 In other words, guilty until proven, innocent of racism in 27 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:29,300 any circumstance. It's a very worrying ideology. 28 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:31,800 There are lots of Other principles we could talk about 29 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,500 in detail. However long you want to go on 30 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:36,500 about it, but it's a very worrying ideology that I think 31 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:40,100 Libertarians and particular should be aware of and concerned 32 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:44,700 about because it's pretty inimical to libertarian thought 33 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,500 completely in the first of all, it's collectivist. 34 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:51,200 It separates people. According to racial categories 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,700 and asks them to consider themselves as Representatives or 36 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:57,800 avatars of racial collectives. So it's collectivist in that 37 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,200 sense. It's not individualist. 38 00:02:00,700 --> 00:02:03,800 But it also, this is a statement that I can quote, pretty close 39 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,300 to from memory from from the book, critical race Theory, an 40 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,400 introduction, which was written by two critical race theory 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,400 states, that have some significance, Richard Delgado, 42 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,800 and jeans to fonczek and on page. 43 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,000 Three, literally the first paragraph, they say that were 44 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,700 destroyed by critical race theory, is they say that unlike 45 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,900 traditional approaches to civil rights, which favored, 46 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,200 incremental progress, and step-by-step progress, critical 47 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,200 race Theory. Hutchins. 48 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,000 A very foundations of the liberal order and by liberal 49 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,600 here, we actually mean the same thing, the other countries call 50 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,800 libertarian or a liberal and libertarian, very similar 51 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,800 talking about Classical liberalism, at its at its roots. 52 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:44,200 And what do they name? As the very foundations of 53 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,900 liberal order they say, including equality Theory. 54 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,400 So we're going to question equality. 55 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:53,800 They list legal reasoning. So rule of law, Enlightenment 56 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,800 rationalism. So, the idea that human beings 57 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,800 are rational agents who can set their own course, it's going to 58 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,000 be question. It's very The last they list the 59 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,600 neutral principles of constitutional law. 60 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,300 So, we're going to question the area of constitutional law, and 61 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,800 especially the idea of applying. It neutrally without say 62 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,000 Identity or race-based Consciousness attached to it on 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,900 page 23 of that book. They start out a rather ominous 64 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:20,100 paragraph with saying crits, meaning critical race. 65 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:22,900 Theory, assists are, highly suspicious of another liberal 66 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:27,000 Mainstay namely rights. And that's a direct quote. 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,500 They are so highly suspicious of Rights. 68 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:32,900 So, they're collectivist ideology that uses race as its 69 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,800 collectivist proxy. That's highly suspicious of 70 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,700 things like constitutional law, rationalism, equality, rule of 71 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:47,400 law, in particular and rights individual rights.