Thread by @EveKeneinan

He’s lying.

The thesis of Critical Race Theory is not that laws have been used to perpetuate racism. The thesis is that Western law itself, and its foundations, such as human rights, equality before the law, etc., is INHERENTLY RACIST, and therefore needs to be destroyed.

https://twitter.com/musical_ipseity/status/1478499481901572099

Here are receipts.

From Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

No one disputes that law has, in the past, been used to perpetuation racism. No one.

CRT is evil and in error because it teaches that America today, in 2022, is a WHITE SUPREMACY, because our Constitution, laws, polity, and everything is INHERENTLY RACIST.

America itself is, has always been, and always will be INHERENTLY WHITE SUPREMACIST and RACIST.

The only possible solution is to DESTROY IT.

Critical Race Theory is FULLY OPPOSED TO the Enlightenment liberalism of equal natural and civil rights, upon which America is built.

It simply denies that “equality” can even be meaningful in regard to members of different races — which are, in effect, different species of human. CRT here, as almost everywhere, closely resembles Nazism.

That isn’t hyperbole or “Godwin’s Law. [sic].” That is simple truth.

If you believe that persons of all races are equal and can be, in principle, more than avatars of their race, that people ought to be treated and judged not be the color of their skin but by the content of their character, then you are the ENEMY of the Critical Race Theorists.

Martin Luther King, Jr. succeeded because he articulated better than anyone else something every American knew and believed: That the PROMISE of American freedom and rights, of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, was a PROMISE that needed to be KEPT FOR ALL AMERICANS.

This is what being “against racism” means for King, for the Civil Rights movement, and for most Americans.

But Critical Race Theory teaches that the American promise should be rejected by blacks, because it is an inherently White Supremacist idea.

How could the idea of natural and civil rights and equality before the law be “White supremacist”?

You have to tie yourself into knots down the rabbithole of CRT to think so. But think so they do, and teach so.

American may not be the greatest nation the world has ever known, but it’s surely in the top 5. 🇺🇸

The American promise of LIBERTY and respect for HUMAN RIGHTS and DIGNITY is still a rare exception on Earth, exceptional is both time and space.

The American body politic is sick today. Worse than foreign diseases, it is suffering from cancers — its own cells trying to murder it.

CRT is one of these cancers. Its origin is Marxist, but its form is distinctly American.

There have always been two schools of thought regarding America and racism

One sees racism as intrinsically opposed to American principles, which are, after all, that “all men are created equal”; and holds that the path forward is to push America to LIVE UP TO its own principles

The other sees racism as a kind of “original sin” that inheres in America, and for which America morally MUST BE DESTROYED.

This is the CRT view.

It has plausibility only because in a spasms of self-righteousness, it casts the first stone.

That is to say, America has not lived up to its own ideals and principles. This is true.

America has also not done this because of original sin. This is true.

But the original sin in question belongs to all mankind, not just (white) America or Americans.

The American failure to live up to its own ideals and principles is the same failure of EVERYTHING to live up to whatever ideals and principles.

Human beings don’t do “perfect.”

But sometimes we can do “good,” or at least “better than anything else.”