Resisting Critical Race Theory Workshop, Session 4 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 this fourth lecture in the series, Lindsay steps away from Theory and into praxis, that is, the practical application of Critical Race Theory. That is, in this lecture, Lindsay breaks down what Critical Race Theory does: makes more Critical Race Theorists (and nothing else). He also elaborates on how Critical Race Theory does it, which is through the complicated idea called “praxis” and through a significant number of linguistic, social, and psychological distortions and extortions. For those in attendance and many since, this lecture has been considered the most eye-opening and clarifying of the series. Critical Race Theory is as Critical Race Theory does, and all Critical Race Theory does is take every pain to transform everything in society into a Critical Race Theorist programming machine. If you are facing Critical Race Theory in your life, this is a must-watch lecture on the operating principles of Critical Race Theory. Join him in this and the other 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 very detailed third chapter of the book. Get the book and follow along with the lectures!
Session 1: What is Critical Race Theory?
Session 2: The Proximate Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory
Session 3: The Deep Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory
Session 5: What to Do About Critical Race Theory
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And here is another fact where shrewd doesn’t answer the problem. These people, and at the highest leval , took the fear and chaos of the pandemic and then used the race card to sow the deepest division .
This country isn’t going to devide over trans rights, nor feminist drek or illega immigration, but it devided horribly over the race card.
And you will never defeat this disgusting ideology in the USA , until you reach the black community . Marcuse put this in motion in the sixties so it’s been decades in the making, so ,it will take decades reaching out to the black community to show how much damage this political agenda at the highest leval has destro their community.
Black people against this disgusting ideology need to be hugely supported.
Really , don’t fool yourself, it’s the race card that did the most damage , turn the black community against this disgusting parasitic ideology , and it will deflate into petty nothingness .
You may a good point. If only those at risk for embracing CRT saw how truly racist, degrading and paternalistic the theory is we might make head way. I’m a previous post here, CRT was compared to how cults operate. At the time I was also watching the lea ramini Netflix documentary about scientology. Its eery how similar the tactics of CRT/woke advocates and those of scientologists towards critics and dissenters. My question is how do we then go about deprogramming this thinking?
i agree this CT and CRT are nothing but dangerous ideologies and have hurt those they claim to help and do nothing but harm we need to turn against CRT and CT and make sure these 2 dangerous ideologies end up in the dust bin of history
Listening to the lectures after reading the book has been very helpful.
If the Mafia were allowed to come into your school to recruit hit men and drug dealers, they would use a very similar technique.
The assumption of the criminal is that everyone else is a real or potential enemy. This is one of their weaknesses, as it makes it more difficult for them to cooperate with each other. But they are really good at organizing action groups on a fear basis.
If they said, “What is it about your anti-criminalism that makes it difficult for us (criminals) to participate in your group?” Then the situation would be more clear. Crime is still seen as a proper thing to be against ( though even that attitude is weakening a bit) so the criminals have to find identities that it is wrong to be against, and assume those identities. This damages those who sincerely use those identites as well as confuses the hell out of people who thought they were being tolerant and thoughtful. We could probably safely say that any public action led by criminals would only be for the purpose of recruiting more criminals to their cause. No one else left behind really matters.
When presented with the CRT test, “Two people come into the store, one black, one white, who do you serve first?”, answer “The older to the two people”.
Why? Respect for an older person.
If the CRT-Psychopath insists they are of the same age, respond that you would look to both people, and obviously addressing both of them, say “How may I help you today?”, and wait to to see which of them speaks first; and which defers politely to the other.
Again if the Race-Nazi-Marxist insists, for the sake of their argument, that you choose which one to serve first, tell them this: “I ask the following question to both people simultaneously -“Do you think it’s okay to discriminate against anyone based on the colour of their skin?”
If one of them says “Yes” and one of the says “No” – then tell the one who answered “Yes” to “Get the Hell out of my shop, because I don’t serve Nazi-Communists”.
To the person who said “No” – I gladly serve them – regardless of their race, sex, creed, age, trans-status, sexuality, right or left-handedness, disability status , halitosis or height, because none of that matters to normal, decent people.
CRT Race-Nazi-Marxists are not normal people.
James, keep up the good work. Thank you.
…. can we just call these people ass holes ? They need to be seriously confronted , scrutinized , mocked , and flushed down the toilet .
Remember, though that “these people” include elected politicians, CEOs of large companies, who have the wherewithall to protect themselves physically as well as in the information space.
Though they are acting like assholes, they are assholes with big sticks. Of course we should freely reject these people and criticise them back (if that’s your game). But this may not be enough to “flush them down the toilet.”
We may need a strategy that is a little more shrewd than direct and ongoing confrontation. As we can see, Ukrainians criticising Russia was not able to stop Russia from sending in soldiers and killing Ukranians. Our death at the hands of Woke-motivated soldiers is not a desireable outcome!
Of course these “ass holes ” have parasiticly infiltrated the highest levels in society , with race trainings in huge corporations , even the military, certainly congress with the squad .
I see too much ” shrewd ” and not enough direct confrontation . There absolutely isn’t enough direct confrontation and calling out , and certainly hardly any in depth calling out like James can put together the origins.
Everyone is in their corners , news casts, pod casts , twitter , but not enough direct hard hitting debate where these people can be called out for the neommarxists they are.
I keep seeing people get tied up by mark Lamont hill because they have heard some of James , but look dumbfounded if challenged if they read any books they are teaching in k-12 that teach CRT.
No, I don’t see enough direct challenging debate to powerfully confront this disgusting ideology head on .
You just can’t say ” more shrewd” with no indication of what you mean.
Subtle doesn’t cut it with these people. And we better defeat them powerfully in the arena of ideas , or this will be settled in the streets with violence. And they do have big sticks where the other side doesn’t know what hit them . I don’t think midterm elections is going to really get at the heart of this disgusting ideology .
Let me be clear, I didn’t bang my head in this shit in the academy, I’ve lived in a country for thirty years that has many people into Marxism and hate the USA. It’s visceral for me , not intellectual . And you have to stand up big time. Or cower away and let them take over.
You better be more explicit what you mean by ” shrewd” before you criticize what I’m saying. I’m tired of intelectual analysis that doesn’t translate to hard hitting action.
@Larry Cox i doubt the woke soldiers would kill us for speaking out against the woke left thats what the Bolsheviks did but that doesnt sound like the woke lefts style