What Is Critical Race Theory?
I’ve been asked a million times for a short introduction to Critical Race Theory that hits the high points in a quick, straightforward way.
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Are Micro-Aggressions Really a Human Rights Violation?
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has addressed a letter to the principals and presidents of universities and colleges across the province after reports of racism and other human rights violations.
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Why the World is the Way It Is: Cultural Relativism and Its Descendents
Relativism contends that all truth is relative except for the claim that “truth is relative.”
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There’s No Such Thing As “Systematic Racism”
“Systemic racism,” as a concept, takes us directly away from clarity and any possibility of a solution.
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How to Be Not-Racist
We are now offering this essay as a guide to explain to readers how they can, in fact, be not-racist, which we also argue they should want to be and should be expected to be.
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Critical Race Theory’s Jewish Problem
Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice.
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On Anti-Racism and American Identity
We stare at the abyss of an even more polarized cultural climate, continuing political stagnation, and one of the most tumultuous election cycles in American history, and many are left wondering what in the world just happened.
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For Racial Healing, Reject Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of core tenets, the first and most central of which is that racism is the ordinary state of affairs in our society.
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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise that Everything is About Race
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad is just the thing to carry round if you want to signal that you are not just talking the intersectional talk, but doing the work (and in these post-Black Lives Matter times, that’s what we’re supposed to do, right?).
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“Anti-Racism” vs. Liberalism
There’s a difference between “anti-racism” and actually overcoming racism. Overcoming racism requires liberalism, and “anti-racism,” as it is currently being taught, can only increase it. This is most obvious when…
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Redefining “Racism”: Against Activist Lexicography
In early June, Merriam-Webster announced its intention to update its entry on “racism.”
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Defining Racism Up: Ibram X. Kendi’s Weird Definition of Anti-racism
Kendi’s central intellectual contribution has been a redefinition of “racism” and how it works.
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How to Talk to Your Employers About Anti-Racism
The 1960s ended, in fact, some half a century ago. Nonetheless, they all share a concern that their employer, university, or children’s school seems to think otherwise and is therefore requiring an affirmation to a very specific understanding of “racism” and “anti-racism”.
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Saying No to Critical Race Theory
I want to explain Critical Race Theory to you. I just want to help you understand it, so I sat down with my microphone and no real plan except to talk through the claims, history, and thought of Critical Race Theory, highlighting where it came from and why it's a terrible way to think about race and racism, in its own ideas.
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Can White People Understand “Racism”?
The Woke use a very particular, very narrow definition of “racism” that has a very expansive application because it is believed to be “systemic” and thus applicable to and a part of everything.
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Mob Social Justice and the Dangerous Precedent of Charging Amy Cooper
In May, an incident occurred in New York City’s Central park between a bird-watcher named Christian Cooper and a woman named Amy Cooper (they are unrelated).
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Wokeness and Its Not-at-all-racist Doctrines of Disempowerment
This isn't empowerment. It's disempowerment, even if we discount the other costs of such a not-at-all-racist doctrine.
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The Defence Approach to Diversity
Diversity is big business and the body of published work is enormous.
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An Open Letter to Robin DiAngelo about “Anti-racism”
You proudly proclaim your racism in your writings, as so often racists do. We have read your work and can see the racism dripping from every page.
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5 Reasons the Book “White Fragility” is Shallow and Destructive
Among the books making the rounds on recent “must-read” book lists is White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo.
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