Can't believe the man actually agreed to debate one of his critics. In this & the clip below, Prof. @Marclamonthill gives a masterclass on elegant, respectful defenestration of fraudulent gurus such as James "World-Level Expert in Critical Race Theory" "Concepts" Lindsay himself.
@marclamonthill Lindsay was struggling to articulate an answer and he began equivocating and throwing jargon around--perhaps to appear as competent as he claims to be.
Hill's reply is so thorough that James observes aloud, "You know a lot about this." Yeah, because he actually STUDIED it, James
See the full interview here:
Buddy, are you sure it was on?
Worth reminding everyone of his public assessment of his own expertise here
Chris Rufo just dropped this propaganda film, “Critical Race Theory.”
I commented with a link to my Substack post so his viewers might read my piece exposing his manipulation and lies; he deleted my comment within seconds.
I guess I’ll have to expose them here.🧵
First, the link to the video. I suggest you check it out yourself at some point; I’ll just highlight the worst bits here.
Don’t forget to leave it the thumb rating it deserves.
Rufo, like Lindsay, is now incorporating the idea that the (Jewish) Frankfurt School engineered CRT to promote division between White and Black Americans so that they could overthrow White rule and install a Communist government. This is literal neo-Nazism, plain as day.
Going through a video interview between my fellow debate participant @OfficialCWATSON and popular YouTuber @Friended4Ever. I’m hoping Christian is willing to provide some evidence for his claims! 🧵
This is pretty amazing. Because CRT emphasizes the role of white supremacy in society, the need to study institutions to understand oppression, and the need of historical analysis to understand the impact of the past on the present and future, Christian says it is “an ideology.”
The grain of truth at the end of what Christian says here is that I objected to him calling CRT a method. It is not a method. Because some CRT scholars study law, others sociology, others moral and political theory, there is no one method all critical race theorists employ.
While I was caught up with debate highlights, my friend @WLucasAnthro uploaded our 2nd conversation on his podcast. We talked about misrepresentations of postmodernism from the GS Hoaxers and Jordan Peterson, plus the CRT moral panic. A great discussion!
It seems our first discussion -- see link in the quoted tweet -- was swarmed by fans of James Lindsay and Jordan Peterson, leaving plenty of critical comments and a nasty dislike ratio. So we decided to put out another video addressing criticisms.
Here I describe how the authors of Cynical Theories engage in a strategy I think Peterson is also guilty of in his anti-pomo lectures: you take the worst possible example of a certain brand of scholarship, then project its pathologies onto all you can tenuously associate with it.
It's that time folks: time for a highlight reel cataloguing the best and worst moments from the debate/car crash rollercoaster that @ETVPod and I had with some noble cultural warriors on the other side about CRT. 🧵
Let's start with my favorite short clip. Pure chef's kiss.
I think it's best to put these in chronological order; many clips refer to previous events in the "debate."
Here Karlyn Borysenko, Ph.D. (Capella University) introduces herself. "Everything that Sam and Aaron are going to bring to this conversation, I really don't care."
Originally I wasn't going to include this; it's not really much of a highlight, it's just where I introduce myself. But for the purposes of exposing rhetorical tricks, it'll be useful to include in the thread.
Helen attributes this to Foucault, as she does in Cynical Theories. Still waiting on a citation. If anyone finds one, let me know—or let Helen know, I’m sure she would find it useful to actually provide page numbers in the book’s second edition.
I love this claim, that systematic analyses of patriarchy/white supremacy etc. are invented by Foucault, and that no women or people of color were capable of coming up with this radical concept on their own before him.
So, I read Rufo's "Critical Race Theory Briefing Book." It's not exactly surprising, of course. But it's worse than I anticipated. Rufo hits four out of five of the key tenets of White supremacist victim ideology.
To orient ourselves, it's worth remembering that Rufo is shamelessly lying about what CRT is. He has in fact told the world that this is his goal: to mislead the American public by turning it into a one-size-fits-all "culture war stuff I hate" label.