06-24-2021, 12:56 AM
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
[quote=hal]
I think a good non eye glazing summary is simply that the success of the USA was greatly dependent on slavery (and later other limitations of freedom of minorities) and that much of this system is actually still in place today and needs to be addressed.
And the fact that some academics needed to come up with a new buzz phrase so they could pique interest in their course/book/speaking engagement. This will be called something else in 10 years. Or less, at the rate we are going.
Well it's been called "critical race theory" since 1981.
This isn't new at all.
What is new is conservative political strategists deciding to throw together everything their base hates about "woke culture " and rebrand it as CRT. It's the new Red Scare.
What Hal described is more typically known by the terms systemic or institutional racism, I'm just saying that it's an academic term. And, honestly, i was in college taking courses on racism, sociology and American society and I never heard the term.