I updated my graphic breakdown of the poisonous elements embedded within CRT. Feel free to use or not as you see fit.
These are my descriptions. CRT advocates don't use this language. For example, they call segregation "affinity groups." They describe blood guilt as "unearned privilege."
I like my framing better because it calls it like it is, and it makes it hard to defend. Imagine you get in a CRT discussion with someone. If you ask them, "Wait, surely you don't believe individuals are responsible for the past and present acts of others, simply because they share the same race? That's blood guilt."
They have no response, other than "that's not CRT." To which you can reply, "Okay good. Then we can agree it's a bad idea!"
Do this for each of the elements, and CRT is dead. Without these elements, it isn't a theory of anything.
THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY
These are my descriptions. CRT advocates don't use this language. For example, they call segregation "affinity groups." They describe blood guilt as "unearned privilege."
I like my framing better because it calls it like it is, and it makes it hard to defend. Imagine you get in a CRT discussion with someone. If you ask them, "Wait, surely you don't believe individuals are responsible for the past and present acts of others, simply because they share the same race? That's blood guilt."
They have no response, other than "that's not CRT." To which you can reply, "Okay good. Then we can agree it's a bad idea!"
Do this for each of the elements, and CRT is dead. Without these elements, it isn't a theory of anything.
THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY