Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The Ugly Truth About Critical Race Theory - Christopher Rufo" video.

  1. California Department of Education has injected CRT into NEW MATH curriculum saying that only reason students unable to do higher math is due to "white-ism" and "structural racism". It's not a secret, but posted on the CDE website, and clearly stated in the introduction to the proposed curriculum. Go to schoolboard meetings.
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  2.  @universalsoldier2293  Yeah, the Cherokee owned slaves, so did Jews, and one native American was even a General in the Civil War, but CRT is not about history or slavery, those are only tactics in the framework of a larger strategy.
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  3. Marcuse fled the Nazis and taught here in California, one of his star pupils was Angela Davis, and the "Orphic" Marxism of Marcuse mutated into the soft-Marxism of CRT. I'd also put Murray Bookchin in the mix, however, both Marcuse and Bookchin would turn over in their graves to see how their teachings have been distorted by the same human traits they warned against.
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  4. Yeah, yeah, very funny, but CRT is not about history at all, that's only used as a tactic in an overall strategy to break the institutions. Marxist theory hiding in the sheep's clothing of CRT. CRT is the framework now for all education, including the sciences, that's what's proposed here in California.
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  5. "Critical Theory" and CRT are NOT the same thing. I imagine you know that.
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  6. Herbert Marcuse, one of the founders of the Frankfurt School, taught here in California for years, and one of his star pupils was Angela Davis, who was later fired from UCLA for being a Communist. You can't say there is "zero" connection. I was in school in the 70s and 80s watching the mutations happen. No, there is a connection, but a distortion, no doubt. It's simple, class was changed to race, all the rhetoric is the same, as is the strategy, a long march into the institutions. Gramsci. Read the intro to the proposed NEW MATH curriculum for California. It's soaked in American Deconstructionism and European Critical Theory.... it is the framework, if not the content, for CRT.
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  7. Predates that, back to CAIN, the "mark of Cain", that was also used, just proves there were lots of idiots talking about stupid things back them, too. Some things never change.
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  8.  @nickwyatt9498  If that were mostly true, there would not be much to worry about. I have a neighbor who is a PhD, not from Harvard, but a state University in California, which he obtained in 1983. His focus was "Ethnic Studies", and he went on to chair a department at a large institution in Texas. He calls himself a "Social Democrat", but in hanging with him, casually, a little drinking, he spilled the beans, and he is fully franchised in the different aspects of the Frankfurt school, Gramsci, etc., and began waxing poetic about "Critical Theory" and "Deconstructionism", and how "we" Marxists are taking back the institutions that was stolen from us by Scientists and Technocrats. I could see the sparkle in his eyes, which then glazed over in an almost religious ecstasy. I believe you underestimate what's going on, and how the infiltration is almost complete.
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  9.  @derrickbell24  You're repeating yourself without responding to challenges of your assertions, intellectually dishonest. (◔_◔)
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  10.  @derrickbell24  I did, and repeat "Even if someone knows the material of DiAngelo and Kendi, or the legal case presented by Crenshaw, it does not mean they've derived the same meaning as you. At this point, we are experiencing an asserted theory being applied, it's a human experiment, but outside the rigors of science and its contemporary framework of ethics. In affect, as applied, it is a crime against humanity."
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  11.  @derrickbell24  Circle back on yourself, not me, "applied" is where this thread started.
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  12. "wide-spread", of course it was, in some of the early states there were more slaves than non-slaves, and slavery is written into the original constitution. Read about the the 3/5ths rule. CRT is not about history or slavery, it's a re-framing of Marxist ideology as a strategy to destroy Capitalism.
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  13.  @MineralGPK  Sure, but both, including Rhode Island, profited mightily from the slave trade, and would not exist in their current configuration otherwise. I don't buy into the 1619 project, and it is possible there were people born in 1789 who lived to see Slavery ended, so it ended in America within the beginning of America and lifespan of one human. But it was "wide-spread", in both actual terms, and its economic impact. Slavery was at an end of its economic usefulness anyway, with technology, we made a slave of the carbon molecule, and labor then needed to be skilled and educated so they could be good consumers. I wonder what that would have looked like? Southern elites and carpetbaggers did figure it out, and it was called "Jim Crow" and created vagrancy laws that made indentured servants out of former slaves. Just because all that is true, does not mean I have to put up with acts of revenge by their descendants, and neither do you.
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  14.  @emilianosintarias7337  "CRT people" are "Orphic Marxists", an American brand of "soft" Marxism proposed by Marcuse and others, like Gramsci.
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  15.  @emilianosintarias7337  CRT is the EQ of Class Struggle, Black/Brown is the oppressed, White-ism is the oppressor. There are lots of videos of Marcuse being interviewed in the 1970s, he's out of the Frankfurt School, and taught at Universities on the West Coast of the US, Angela Davis was one of his star students. He's the author of "Orphic" Marxism, which is a mash up with Freud and Jung, and make up much of the framework of American "soft-Marxism" we are now faced with. YouTube Herbert Marcuse and Murray Bookchin, fathers of American style Marxism.
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  16. I talk against CRT from the CENTER, but now being called RIGHT. So the "funnel" to the Right is being insinuated by others.
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  18. Post-Modern "Critical Theory" was hijacked by the soft-Marxists in the US and Europe, in the US it was mutated into CRT.
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  19. Not exactly, PBS gets $6 in donations for every $1 they get from the Federal government, and they also receive large donations from individuals and corporations, which sometimes affects the content
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  20. And yet, here you are, a consumer of that technocracy, and most likely alive because of it.
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  21.  @donjohnson5424  Without "googling" it, you tell me. There's a great documentary about a guy in the Mid-West of the United States who was an adherent to the almost religious framework of "Technocracy", I wonder if you've seen it. I grew-up in the heart of the Technocratic movement, went to their schools, and was taught the dogma. If you believe there is no connection to "technology", there's nothing to say, sorry.
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  22.  @YesBruv105  No, as you know, there are many forms and sects of "Marxism", often ripe with intermural conflict, Trotsky was assassinated, for Pete's sake. There's a brand of American Marxism fathered by a member of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, along with Gramsci, who saw that violent revolution would not come to settled democracies, and the only option was a "soft-Marxism" with a long march into the institutions from the inside. This 3rd wave is using race instead of class as the wedge issue, and doing it very successfully, but I don't believe it is sustainable, because as mixed race children start asking their parents if they should "hate" grandpa for being "white", the end of this tactic is near.
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  23. BLM/CRT/MARXISM: https://youtu.be/p7C6tNjiRKY
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  24.  @emilianosintarias7337  That's fine, but as with many "movements", there are offshoots and tributaries, CRT in the U.S. is not aligned with the Marxists you mention, but that's not to say their training, method, strategy and framework is not Marxist. It's like a Protestant saying a Catholic is not a real Christian, or a Suni saying a Shia is not a real Muslim. Not all Marxists are CRT, but all CRT is Marxist.
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  25.  @emilianosintarias7337  Again, Mormons think of themselves as Christians, but few Christians consider Mormons Christian. The foundation and framework of CRT is Marxist, as stated by those who both created and promote it. What's wrong with Marxism? At base it asserts human behavior is a cultural construct, which I believe is fallacious. It's possible to function quite well in a fallacious framework, like believing the world is FLAT, something which works just fine in a limited context, but is not correct. Marxism is not unlike the Flat Earth societies of today, they make what sound like good arguments when you hear them, but further research proof them to be laughable, if not dangerous.
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  26.  @emilianosintarias7337  okay, I'm ready for your Utopia, let me know when it's realized.
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