Derrick Bell, founder of critical race theory
Photo Attribution: I, DavidShankbone / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
In recent months, an ideology called critical race theory has gained a lot of attention from politicians and members of the media. Some believe that it is important for making a difference in racial disparity, while others want to see it banned in schools and elsewhere.
However, the elements of this doctrine remain largely unknown to most Americans and has been misconstrued by many people who think that it is merely a recipe for improving tolerance in our society.
In this article, I will attempt to rectify this fallacy, by showing the destructive powers of this ideology. Critical race theory is an inherent justification of the destruction we are seeing in the streets and it is an intellectual framework for those who want to destroy America. Here I will outline 5 of the most damaging aspects of critical Race theory
- No facts!! Only narrative.
Have you ever wondered why those who claim that the police are systemically racist almost never provide any evidence or statistics to support their position? Oftentimes they merely point out a few pieces of anecdotal evidence. Despite the fact that statistics don’t support their argument, they continue to cling to their position.
You have critical race theory to thank for this lack of logic. Followers of this legal movement believe in storytelling and narrative analysis. Instead of presenting the facts of a case, they use demagoguery to influence people’s decisions with stories.
Take one example from a critical race theory scholar named Patricia Williams. She wrote a book called The Rooster’s Egg in 1995 to illustrate racism through stories. In one of these stories she wrote about how she was at a store and noticed that a doll resembling an African-American had a reduced price whereas the white dolls were full priced. She then tried to use this story to illustrate the “devalued condition” of blacks in society.
Stories like this show how critical legal studies convolutes our discussion of racial issues by introducing obscure anecdotal evidence that is unreflective of American society. People who have been influenced by this movement use stories like the Jacob Blake or Rayshard Brooks killing to illustrate systemic racism, while failing to back up any of their claims with statistics.
- Who needs rights?
Probably one of the worst elements of critical race theory is its disregard for rights that preexist government i.e. life, liberty, and property. Critical race theorists would love to trample all over these for their communitarian ends.
In Critical Race Theory, An Introduction, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado write that radical CRT scholars believe that, “moral and legal rights are apt to do the rights holder much less good than they think…Think how that system applauds equality of opportunity but resists programs that assure equality of results.”
To many critical race scholars, individual rights don’t matter. Their form of rights is the government guaranteeing that you receive something material. They are willing to throw away freedom in order to establish a tyrannical form of egalitarianism.
- No more standards
Another critical race theory fallacy is a hatred of standards which yield unequal results. Critical race theorists believe that tests such as the SAT or the LSAT should be thrown out in favor of something more equitable. In essence, they want to destroy any standards which yield unequal results
The lack of awareness of those who advocate for this is shocking. Destroying academic standards in no way helps minority communities.
A more helpful approach would be helping students to meet these standards by allowing them to have school choice and creating economic incentives for companies to move to impoverished areas. This would allow minority students to achieve the standards set by these tests. However, critical race scholars think that the problem will be solved just by destroying the standards.
- Radical measures are necessary
Critical race theory is also one of the biggest contributors to radicalism in America. One might ask why the people who are rioting in the streets don’t run for elected office and attempt to participate in our democracy?
One of the reasons is because people who are a part of the critical race theory movement don’t believe in bargaining. This is because they think that in order for society to be truly anti-racist, everything must be changed all at once, or no real progress will be made.
In Critical Race Theory, An Introduction, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado also write that, “The predicament of social reform, as one writer pointed out, is that ‘everything must change all at once.’ Otherwise, change is swallowed up by the remaining elements, so that we remain roughly as we were before. Culture replicates itself forever and ineluctably.”
In this way, critical race theory is an absolutist doctrine. They believe that there is only one way to help minorities and that nothing can be remedied unless everything is changed all at once. And there is only one way to do that; revolution and the destruction of America.
- Conclusion: America must go
The conclusion of the critical race theory doctrine is depressing and destructive. A realization of their goals would lead to a tyrannical society in which no one had any negative rights. Government would be unrestricted and omnipotent, with the ability to control everyone’s lives.
If everything needs to be changed all at once to realize this dream of the critical race theorists, then there is only one path; revolution and the destruction of America. President Trump was right to ban this horrible ideology from being taught in the government.
Your humble servant,
Silence Dogood
