From what I can see, these five ideas are what people hate about Critical Race Theory:

1. A clear historical demarcation of oppressor and oppressed along racial lines:
2. Racism in America is a socio-historical product of group exploitation, not vice versa:
3. Racial disparities are, therefore, structural:
4. Group identification and activism are the necessary responses to group oppression, not mere color-blindness:
5. Last, equality is the actual goal and mere equal treatment is not the remedy to centuries of unequal treatment:
And all of these are just quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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