Thread by @ConceptualJames

I just saw a billboard that says, "There's only one race, and it's mankind," and it made me realize that Critical Race Theory is, in fact, an insurgency theory that has roots at least in Maoist CCP China and thus probably back in Soviet Communist tactics. It's not that new.

The creators of Critical Race Theory are probably fully cognizant that their approach is Maoist because, at least its rumored, they have a habit of referring to the key text in the field by the nickname "The Big Red Book," alluding to Mao's infamous "Little Red Book."

Critical Race Theory attacks the idea of "there's only one race, mankind" critically by asking what cultural values define that race (already a racist assumption) and then insisting a white, eurocentric racial identity assumes "its own values" are universal to all.

It accuses this perspective of a kind of cultural chauvinism that it crudely and opportunistically calls "white supremacy" instead of something almost as manipulative such as "Anglo-American chauvinism" or something like that, which would suggest its true roots more clearly.

Mao did this too, rather exactly, accusing the Guomingdang (KMT) Nationalist Party of "Han chauvinism" being the de facto reality of their attempt to define a Chinese national identity (huaren). "We're all Chinese (huaren)" is allegedly made good by defining Chineseness as Han.

The accusation of "Han chauvinism," an earlier Maoist CCP version of CRT down to many specific details, inflamed racial tensions and broke up any national unity in a universal Chinese identity under huaren by suggesting huaren really means Hanren (Han people). Just like CRT.

When CRT advocates say "white supremacy," they mean "white chauvinism" in the same way Mao meant. They mean what makes good on a unified human identity is a hidden assumption that it conform to Western ("white") values in order to be acceptable. Roughly, "human ≈ white."

So we can understand CRT to bea Maoist tactic resurrected and applied to the racial context of American history, borrowing from its specific language and trigger points. That's a great reason to remove it from everything, obviously, but it's also the Iron Law of Woke Projection.

The essential accusation being made is that the hegemonic cultural values of the targeted nation aren't just unjustly universalized but in fact *totalizing*, which they are, in fact, not, especially in America. Communism *is* totalizing in every way, though.

Western culture, esp in America, does not demand everyone erase their identity and become "white," as CRT alleges. Communism absolutely does demand everybody erase their cultural identity and become Communist. That's why black people must embrace CRT to be "Black voices," etc.

Like the Maoism it derives from, CRT is totalizing. Everyone must adopt the correct CRT values and perspective or effectively render themselves non-persons. "To not have a correct political orientation is like not having a soul," said Mao. "Remoulding" is needed. CRT is the same.

To bring up human universality, "there's only one race, mankind," in reply to CRT provocations is to play into this dialectical trap. It's to state the very thing that lets them present you as a "white chauvinist" because they intentionally misidentify race with culture.

CRT is a Maoist-Marxist ideology. It's not new. It's not even uniquely American. It's Maoism with American characteristics, and we're in the midst of an American Cultural Revolution that uses it as one mass line of action. We must reject it. It's a cult.
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