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Food for thought from David Anthony (07 April 2021):

THE TRUTH ABOUT CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND APPLIED POST-MODERNISM
I taught history for thirty-three years before answering the call to the pulpit. Most of those years were spent in public schools. Both those experiences influenced this post.

First, many educators have a knack for butchering language to make something simple sound complex or to cover up what they really mean. Some of them create multisyllabic word salads sounding intellectually deep and impressive, but do not say much. If anyone wants to punish themselves, spend some time reading a professional journal in education. The experience inspired the picture with this post.
Second, being a history teacher, I took seriously the obligation to get what I taught right. I am human. I am not perfect, but I did not intentionally grind political/ideological axes. I was an instructor, not a brainwasher. Students needed to know both sides of issues to be able to make informed decisions.

To begin, leaders of BLM make no secret they are Marxists. They claim CRT as the intellectual foundation of their movement. The word ‘marxist’ is a good fit, since the words ‘critical,’ ‘race’ and ‘theory’ all trace their roots back to 19th century Marxism which gave itself a high-falutin name of ‘Scientific Materialism.’ Marxism was ‘scientific’ because it rejected Christianity. Marxism claimed to have scientific truth on its side, so they hid behind the language of science. ‘Critical’ sounds impressive. All it means is to analyze something to find faults or errors. I was being critical when I graded an essay. Criticism was applied to videotapes of football games to find out what we did wrong.

'Race’ was a Marxist invention. Marxists were inspired by Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Theories of survival of the fittest and natural selection claimed inferior elements in nature selected themselves out for extinction. It was only a short hop from that to something call Social Darwinism which did not apologize for ‘racism,’ rather embraced the concept to promote evolution of humanity. Science demanded inferior races be culled out of the gene pool. Karl Marx made no secret which races were inferior. Charles Darwin did not either. What they believed was conventional wisdom. Ernst Haeckl even gave it the appearance of scientific truth by inventing ‘evidence’ that was not supported in nature.

That was a problem for Marxist ‘science.’ It had a bad habit of cooking the books to support the desired outcome instead of letting data govern the solution. This leads to the word ‘theory.’ Newton’s Theory of Gravity has been replaced by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity because Relativity fits the data. Einstein’s Theory of a Steady State Universe was wrong. Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Mechanics fit with the data about the origin and nature of the Universe. I had many theories in high school and college about girls who thought I was attractive. I tested my theories, and when data was collected, I was proven wrong. I had to get over it and find reality. Theories are not facts, period.

‘Critical Race Theory’ is based on discredited 19th century racial theories and scientific practice. That is not end of it. Remember Ernest Haeckl? His fraudulent findings were used to support anti-Semitism in Germany. Nazi race theorists cited Haeckl to promote German Aryanism, and justify extermination of the Jews.

The founders of CRT know this. They have contempt for people, and do not hide it by the words they use describing themselves. The irony of virulently racist people using this fraud to accuse everyone else of being what they have declared themselves to be, yet everyone else is guilty in their perverse and depraved worldview.

‘Applied Post Modernism’ is another self-important expression with no meaning. Post Modernism is the rejection of the assumptions of Modernism. What is Modernism? It the belief science can explain everything. It believes all answers are based on Materialism. How do we end poverty? The theory is we give money to the poor. It sounds reasonable, but what does data tells us about the theory? Addictions can be overcome by spending money on counseling and services for addicts. That is another reasonable idea, but the reality proves it false. Modernism does permit spiritual solutions. Everything can be solved with enough money and material aid.

Post Modernism does not reject modernist assumptions so much as say there are no true assumptions, either material or spiritual. Post Modernism teaches ‘truth’ is what we choose to make it. Using fraud and lies to create ‘truth’ is fine since concepts like ‘truth,’ ‘lie,’ ‘good,’ and ‘bad’ have no meaning anyway.

Put it all together. CRT applies post-modernism to validate and dignify 19th century intellectual and scientific fraud as ‘truth.’ It is a mish-mash of lies and sloppy thinking with a large helping of moral and ethical corruption. How can it be anything else? Look at the origins of the words they are proud to apply to themselves.
Advocates of CRT are not stupid. What they are counting on is we are.

Wordmage 8 May 8
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Thanks for posting this.

Glad too. It needed repeating.

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