DrZoidberg
Contributor
So how is CRT also not racist, or a part of systemic racism in America?
I have a hard time imagining any CRT scholar defining themselves as unaffected by racism. The whole point is that race concepts well-ingrained in the way Americans are taught to see the world, that includes scholars as well as anyone else. We're all components of the same racist system, until we're all not. Individual and collective liberation from these ideologies can only come together. This is one of the reasons why CRT theorists and leftist political projects are so often at odds; Democrats love to pat themselves on the back and declare themselves pure of heart, thus blindly accepting status quo answers to social problems that are not yet, in fact, solved.
Or maybe the perception that there's a social problem needing to be solved is itself a racist perception arising out of the systemic racism that infects all of us, including anyone claiming to have answers or solutions to an alleged problem, or anyone casting doubt on someone else's answer.
In fact, anyone who ever says anything, no matter what, is just expressing more racism of their own, no matter what they say, or how much they pretend to be on a crusade against racism.
Isn't it rather that describing the problem of racism in no way is a solution to it? For example. Karl Marx absolutely nailed the problem of the capitalists exploiting the working class. But his solution sucked.
I see CRT in a similar way. One day somebody might figure out a way to use this knowledge and apply it in a truly constructive way. But as it is now, every policy put forward based on CRT I've seen is stupid.
The whole idea of structural racism is that the even non-racists can't help but maintaining systematic racism, simply based on how incentives work in a free market. Ok, fine. Doesn't that mean that it can't be fixed within a capitalist free market paradigm? Is the best solution really to disband capitalist free market capitalism? On another note, the USSR, even though they applied socialist theory to an extreme degree failed to create an equal society. We're fully capable of fixing one problem while making everything worse for everybody. The USSR failed to even fix that one problem they employed their extreme solution to fix.
I don't think the CRT crowd is anywhere near solving racism. It's purely something academic, that should be of interest, only to academics. Taking it out of academia is IMHO a terrible idea.