So, basically, Chuck Woolery is siding with Hitler here...good to know. Oh, and BTW, fact check. Critical Race Theory was actually a RESPONSE to traditional Critical Theory, which CRT saw as largely ignoring the role of racism in American law and society. Don't y'all have Google?
I also love that Chuck says Hitler "cracked down" on his enemies...interesting way to describe what Hitler did to those he viewed in that manner...
Critical Theory traditionally was class centric & Critical Legal Studies (direct precursor to CRT) downplayed the centrality of racism & the Black experience to the law. CRT was a corrective to that. To call it Marxist is lazy. It was a response to Marxist class reductionism
It's like these yahoos see "critical" and "theory" and their brains say "ah, must be Marxism...no one would use words like that unless they were commmmmmiiieees" Amazingly 5th grade understanding of the world

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The entirety of conservative political thought is now "replacement theory" paranoia. First, that Dems and the left broadly are trying to physically replace white people with brown folk from other countries...
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1/ A thread on Israel/Gaza, from the perspective of an Anti-Zionist Jew. And no, that doesn’t mean self-hating. Self-hate is what shandas like Alan Dershowitz are guilty of, being such cheap dates they’ll sell out their values for an embassy switch to Jerusalem. Please read on...
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