What is critical race Theory? Grigori's there? A, I'm supposed to be nice to it. Critical race Theory describes itself as a movement, which is an odd thing for a theory to describe itself as. But as a movement that tries to to re assess the relationship between race racism and Power in society. And that's a very friendly way to put it. It's a view that takes the position that race racism.
Um, is systemic in society. It's not a matter of necessarily of individual intention or individual action. Although certainly individuals can act or be racist or act in rhesus ways. But it views racism, ultimately, as a system that operates in society. Every level whether that's through individual actions, whether through social norms with the Stewart way that we we talk, and think about things, whether it's what we consider knowledge, whether it's our institutions, whether it's
criminal justice. Or whether that's cooling or any other institution that you might imagine the government itself, every level, every single thing as racism taken as its ordinary State of Affairs, according to pray for a story. That's the first underlying Assumption of critical race. Theory. Racism is the ordinate, systemic and the ordinary State of Affairs in society. Not an aberration from them. So racism is the default. In other words, guilty until proven, innocent of racism in
any circumstance. It's a very worrying ideology. There are lots of Other principles we could talk about in detail. However long you want to go on about it, but it's a very worrying ideology that I think Libertarians and particular should be aware of and concerned about because it's pretty inimical to libertarian thought completely in the first of all, it's collectivist. It separates people. According to racial categories and asks them to consider themselves as Representatives or
avatars of racial collectives. So it's collectivist in that sense. It's not individualist. But it also, this is a statement that I can quote, pretty close to from memory from from the book, critical race Theory, an introduction, which was written by two critical race theory states, that have some significance, Richard Delgado, and jeans to fonczek and on page.
Three, literally the first paragraph, they say that were destroyed by critical race theory, is they say that unlike traditional approaches to civil rights, which favored, incremental progress, and step-by-step progress, critical race Theory. Hutchins. A very foundations of the liberal order and by liberal here, we actually mean the same thing, the other countries call libertarian or a liberal and libertarian, very similar talking about Classical liberalism, at its at its roots.
And what do they name? As the very foundations of liberal order they say, including equality Theory. So we're going to question equality. They list legal reasoning. So rule of law, Enlightenment rationalism. So, the idea that human beings are rational agents who can set their own course, it's going to be question. It's very The last they list the neutral principles of constitutional law. So, we're going to question the area of constitutional law, and
especially the idea of applying. It neutrally without say Identity or race-based Consciousness attached to it on page 23 of that book. They start out a rather ominous paragraph with saying crits, meaning critical race. Theory, assists are, highly suspicious of another liberal Mainstay namely rights. And that's a direct quote. They are so highly suspicious of Rights. So, they're collectivist ideology that uses race as its
collectivist proxy. That's highly suspicious of things like constitutional law, rationalism, equality, rule of law, in particular and rights individual rights.