Resisting Critical Race Theory Workshop, Session 1 of 5
What is Critical Race Theory? What does it believe? Where does it come from? How does it work? And what can we do about it? These are core questions to understanding our times. In this series of lectures, originally delivered in Tampa, Florida, in July of 2021, James Lindsay, the founder of New Discourses, gives thorough, deep answers to these questions.
In the first of these lectures, Lindsay dives into a pressing question: what is Critical Race Theory? In particular, he seeks to offer answers and insights about what defines Critical Race Theory, both in terms of what it represents as a Theory and in terms of what its core beliefs are as a religious system. His answer is simple: Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism. In this illuminating lecture, Lindsay takes us through excerpts from introductory and advanced Critical Race Theory texts to make clear not only that CRT is, in fact, Race Marxism, but what that means in practice for everyone. He stresses particularly that Critical Race Theory is a belief system founded on the article of faith that racism that benefits white people is the fundamental organizing principle of society. He then details thirteen core beliefs, or tenets, of the Critical Race Theory faith and explains how they form a comprehensive, systematic system of belief around that core article of faith. Join him for this and the subsequent lectures in the series to understand Critical Race Theory like you never have before.
For those interested in learning even more, Lindsay’s newest book, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis, was developed out of the notes for this series of lectures. His notes for this lecture served as the basis for the first two chapters of the book. Get the book and follow along with the lectures!
Session 2: The Proximate Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory
Session 3: The Deep Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory
Session 4: How Critical Race Theory Operates
Session 5: What to Do About Critical Race Theory
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It seems to me that part of the problem lies in the issue of American identity. The United States of America is the only country on the planet whose identity has nothing to do with language, ethnicity, tribal affiliation, or, at least in theory, racial identity, but is rooted in an idea that is defined in its founding documents, specifically, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Nevertheless, the APPLICATION of that idea HAS been influenced by the concept of racial identity, such that, from 1776 until 1985, there WERE certain advantages and disadvantages that could directly be connected to a person’s race, mostly in terms of political access and economic stability and growth. It would make sense that any serious effort to study the history and sociology of this country would discover the reality of this situation, and any effort to correct this situation would involve changing the dynamics so that the disparities would be eliminated rather than maintained as a de facto state of existence.
In this case, since Marxism of any type views Christianity with hostility as a competing world view, it is natural that it would seek solutions outside of the Christian ethical and prophetic traditions. Thus, Critical Race Theory, in my opinion, is the fruit of the previous efforts to maintain a race-based inequality in a country whose ideals demanded a community based upon its opposite – equality under the Law for all of its citizens. How does a nation fix that sort of problem that impacted most of its existence? CRT is one answer – what is yours?
To paraphrase 1984: if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a white face — forever.
Good one , James . People need to hear this , with things from your past lectures and internalize it so they recognize the smell of this disgusting ideology. It has seeped so deep in our institutions we are too close to becoming that as national identity. Imagine America fighting a foreign war to spread its ideals of Critical Race , Gender and Feminist Theory. There are too many main stream news organizations and giant tech powers that seem to endorse this as our American identity
I call them the ” Vichy Americans ” , especially the ines that outright hate America and want it to fall.