Star Member LAS14 (11,717 posts)
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Is there a difference between "critical race theory" and "systemic racism?"
Is one just a theory about the other?
tia
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Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice. CRT examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.Roy L. Brooks defined critical race theory in 1994 as "a collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view".Developed by sociologist Joe Feagin, systemic racism is a popular way of explaining, within the social sciences and humanities, the significance of race and racism both historically and in today's world.Feagin uses historical evidence and demographic statistics to create a theory that asserts that the United States was
founded in racism since the Constitution classified Black people as the property of White people.
"Systemic racism includes the complex array of antiblack practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resource inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and power. Systemic here means that the core racist realities are manifested in each of society’s major parts [...] each major part of U.S. society—the economy, politics, education, religion, the family—reflects the fundamental reality of systemic racism."Star Member WhiskeyGrinder (12,507 posts)
1. Systemic racism exists. CRT explains how and why.
That's a super basic version of the difference. CRT originally was used on the legal system.
The real news is that the current crop of leftists didn't even come up with the theory...
it's been around for 100 years or more... started by the Germans... They just added race to it as a way to destroy the USA... I proves the USA is evil and therefore must be destroyed...
“Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human “emancipation from slavery”, acts as a “liberating … influence”, and works “to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers of” human beings (Horkheimer 1972b [1992, 246]). Because such theories aim to explain and transform all the circumstances that enslave human beings, many “critical theories” in the broader sense have been developed. They have emerged in connection with the many social movements that identify varied dimensions of the domination of human beings in modern societies. In both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms.Star Member Baitball Blogger (38,556 posts)
3. CRT explains it or does it prove it?
Since it began in the law, I'm guessing there are case studies to prove that systemic racism exists. And that's why Republicans want to put it down before it gets traction in the public.
Easy enough to beat them, by showing that evidence in the form of a documentary.
It doesn't do either. As a theory it propagates that:
A. Slavery existed in the beginning of the USA
B. Slavery is Bad
therefore
C. USA is bad.
zipplewrath (15,998 posts)
2. Well
Yes, in the sense that one is intended to explain PORTIONS of the other. I don't think CRT was intended to be exhaustive in its description of the phenomenon. Quite honestly, CRT was intended to explain the ORIGINS of systemic racism, not necessarily its full consequence.
The ORIGINS of systematic racism? As in, where does SYSTEMATIC RACISM begin?
Technically, I suppose that it started when the Angels were annoyed that God favored man over them... or so they thought...
Samaria had slaves. That's the oldest recorded mention of it... Rome had slave. China had slaves. The African Empires of Nubia had slaves...
Were they all bad?
Voltaire2 (9,387 posts)
6. CRT attempts to explain why we have
systemic racism, among other things.
It's just the latest attempt by the leftists to destroy the USA.
