2020 US Presidential Election

Critical race theory (CRT) is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that examines society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power. Developed out of postmodern philosophy. Major themes CRT scholars favor a more aggressive approach to social transformation, as opposed to liberalism's more cautious approach; a race-conscious approach to transformation rejecting liberal embrace of affirmative action, color blindness, role modeling, or the merit principle Storytelling, counter-storytelling, and "naming one's own reality": The use of narrative to illuminate and explore experiences of racial oppression. Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress: Criticism of civil-rights scholarship and anti-discrimination law, such as Brown v. Board of Education. Applying insights from social science writing on race and racism to legal problems. Intersectional theory: The examination of race, sex, class, national origin, and sexual orientation, and how their combination plays out in various settings, e.g., how the needs of a Latina female are different from those of a black male and whose needs are the ones promoted. Essentialism: Reducing the experience of a category (gender or race) to the experience of one sub-group (white women or African-Americans). In essence, all oppressed people share the commonality of oppression. However, such oppression varies by gender, class, race, etc., and therefore, the aims and strategies will differ for each of these groups. Non-white cultural nationalism and separatism (incl. Black nationalism): The exploration of more radical views that argue for separation and reparations as a form of foreign aid. Legal institutions, critical pedagogy, and minority lawyers in the bar. Structural determinism: Exploration of how "the structure of legal thought or culture influences its content," whereby a particular mode of thought or widely shared practice determines significant social outcomes, usually occurring without conscious knowledge. As such, theorists posit that our system cannot redress certain kinds of wrongs. White privilege: Belief in the notion of a myriad of social advantages, benefits, and courtesies that come with being a member of the dominant race (i.e. white people). A clerk not following you around in a store or not having people cross the street at night to avoid you, are two examples of white privilege. Microaggression: Belief in the notion that sudden, stunning, or dispiriting transactions have the power to mar the everyday of oppressed individuals. These include small acts of racism consciously or unconsciously perpetrated, whereby an analogy could be that of water dripping on a rock wearing away at it slowly. Microaggressions are based on the assumptions about racial matters that are absorbed from cultural heritage. Empathetic fallacy: Believing that one can change a narrative by offering an alternative narrative in hopes that the listener's empathy will quickly and reliably take over. Empathy is not enough to change racism as most people are not exposed to many people different from themselves and people mostly seek out information about their own culture and group.

Re Critical Race Theory Training - I didn't know the feds were using this as training. The movement started picking up steam after Bush and when Obama took office. Some of these charcteristics should be further examined with the inclusion of all races to be fair. BUT this is expressly anti-white, ergo racist. Many of the problems are of class distinction, not just race. There is evidence of that even in Atlanta today. When BLM protests started, many of the rich black here refused to get involved. They have fame and wealth, essentially won at life so why bother protesting? As soon as white privilege enters the argument the debate is lost. I think the generation before my own has more racist individuals than my generation and from what I can see of the generations that follow mine, there are even less racist individuals I have encountered. The balance was already shifting with inclusivity rather than divisivness. (I do think Police Reform needs to happen. Police officers are dicks to everyone. Seemed a fitting place to bring that up.) Unity cannot be created out of more racism. As this movement has gathered followers, racial tensions have grown and things have gotten more divisive to the point a line has been drawn in the dirt . People are getting bullied in the streets to bend knee to BLM or be called a racist. Virtually exhibiting qualities fascism which liberals are to oppose. This is why ANTIFA makes no sense. Its an anomaly of its own defining characteristics and that which it claims to fight against.

@verucassault For that final point involving ANTIFA and Socialism in general. The crisis phase is entirely based on the concept that there is an evil or an oppressor and you must destroy it in order to have a stable society. For all intents and purposes this evil oppressor can be anything, it can be a race, a class, a political affiliation a religion or even a regional culture. ANTIFA or any radical group doesn't care about fascism, they care about having control of society in order to bend it to their will. They are using two techniques at once. One is fear, by having people afraid of their rampage, people will simply appease them. The other is rely on weak minded people to follow them and join these groups based on the promise of peace and goodies, regardless of whether they deliver these things or not is irrelevant. So they are trying to overthrow government so that they can be in power. However with each and every revolution in history we know that ANTIFA and BLM will never get the power they are trying to get. In fact there is more than a chance that ANTIFA and BLM members will be sent to labor camps and the leaders shot. This happened to the revolutionaries in USSR, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Romania, Laos, Nicaragua and North Korea. Even happened to a few during that weird moment in Grenada. ANTIFA and BLM-cells are exactly what the Marxist Leninist revolutionaries were in all the countries listed. It is safe to assume that this is an attempt at a revolution and we should do our best to prevent it's spread. If it is allowed to continue then we are looking at the deaths of millions of people. Just as it had been in other revolutions and always will be.

Makes sense. I mean Antifa is calling everyone facists but... https://youtu.be/W-iCAgWvcYI https://youtu.be/iQlZK-lDfHE https://youtu.be/dSnTTND0UcM https://youtu.be/wP1JU8aZJ54 OMG the news reporter for this one is totes adorable. His hand on his hip. XD <3

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