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[–]CastleHoward 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's all tied together. It all comes from a school of thought called Critical Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory. It's a pseudoscience that has completely taken over our Universities. It's a way of thinking that says that identity categories must be embedded and overlayed into all aspects of life. All problems in society must be addressed in an intersectional framework first and foremost. In Critical Theory, it is known that there are different levels of privilege that are based on categories of oppression. It's a house of cards because the different categories of oppressed people are often on a unavoidable course for explosive conflict. This is where we find ourselves. The idea is everyone, at some level, is an awful racists, sexist, transphopes because there is no way to avoid this if you come from a privileged category. This theory has completely saturated our society but if you actually read the academic papers it's a bunch of feelings based nonsense. Critical Theory is in direct opposition to a Classical Liberal free society. It rejects scientific method and it's fucking dangerous. Trans people are the most powerful in this framework because everyone else is living in too much privlidge and must "stay in their lane". Look at what happened at Evergreen College in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHyNSlsz44_GceBMuwAyflt3lDWMEjTG

[–]moody_ape[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting. I didn't know about Critical Theory and its consequences to academic work. Funny how it has the word "critical" in the name, but it doesn't seem to apply critical thinking to itself. I'll check out the video, thanks for the link!