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Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory is a theoretical framework in the social sciences, developed out of epistemic philosophy, that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.

What is epistemic philosophy?

• Epistemologists study the nature of knowledge, justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.

The key word to is "justification".

Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. Social standing in nature can be a sort of pecking order which establishes a hierarchy. Critical race theory would suggest that is established by race.

If you think your social standing is actually determined by race or the opinion of another race then, That is racist.

Thinking or having the belief that racists have an inherent power takes power from the individual and gives power to racists whether real or imagined.

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity.

It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since the Civil Rights Movement and associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was no longer necessary. CRT continues to be an influential body of legal and academic literature that has made its way into more public, non-academic writing.

"Critical race theory" first emerged as a challenge to the idea that the United States had become a color-blind society where one's racial identity no longer had an effect on one's social or economic status.

Character not color mattered.

Affirmative action policies, were becoming obsolete.

Some people obtain a sense of identity and justification from being abused and oppressed. It can be seen in abused people all the time and leads to numerous syndromes and compulsive behaviors. The battered wife or girlfriend returns to her abuser or the hostage defends their kidnapper, even joins them.

Could not the victim of racism become the racist?

When that source of identity and justification was slipping away with rapid moves in society toward equality some felt an inner compulsion to reestablish that oppression or some sense of it in order to maintain that victim identity.

Critical Race Theory was a way to claim racial oppression and inequality continued.

Any fact or even the "messenger" who points to the fact that contradicted that theory of racial oppression is the enemy. Like religious zealots who use their ideology to justify themselves, despite their weakness and frailties, will gather their "pitchforks and torches" and burn you at the stake even if they set the whole world on fire.

This idea was financially lucrative for many who depended on continuing racial friction or the appearance of it. Men have depended on keeping the people at odds from Caesar to Al Sharpton.

Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, argued that racism and white supremacy were defining elements of the American legal system and despite the actual law they conjectured "equal protection." did not exist.

Derrick Bell argued that Brown v. Board of Education was a result of the self-interest of “elite whites”.

He protested Harvard's failure to hire female faculty of color because he felt they should have jobs based on the color of their skin.

Drawing on ideologies, including feminism, Marxism, and postmodernism the term "intersectionality," was used to highlight the multiple and overlapping systems of oppression.

Race as a social construct essentially means that race has no scientific basis or biological reality.

Race differences make up a fraction of genetic elements and tell us nothing about the content of our character, intelligence, behavior, or moral capacity. None of these are inherent to any single race.

The Critical Race Theory “society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific truths.” Instead they are compelled by their need to be justified, to create races, endow “them with pseudo-permanent characteristics” which is racism.

1. . Critical race theory was a response to the idea that America had become a color-blind society.
2. . While "race" or color effects economic, educational, and the legal system.
3. . Critical race theory inspired "intersectionality" and pushed identity politics.