Hey everybody. It's James Lindsay. You're listening to New Discourse's Bullets, where I give a bullet point like summary pretty quickly about one topic from woke. We all need to understand so we can defeat it.

And let's talk about what's going on. Let's talk about what's really happening here critical america theory now

whether you're on woke left or woke right you there's a critical america theory um you could

phrase critical america theory as you don't hate your country enough american and you see this

very obviously on the left it It's very easy to see.

Howard Zinn is probably one of the most famous critical America theorists. There's an entire

department or whatever in most universities or sub-department called American Studies.

Guess what, guys. America's Studies is not learning why George Washington was cool. It's learning why Thomas Jefferson had slaves in the worst possible way. It is critical America theory. Okay, so what is a critical theory? And critical theory is that you don't know how to make the thing that you have better. So you complain about the things that you don't like about it.

And the point is to, if you want to use the kind of postmodern language, is to deconstruct belief in that thing. It is to undermine belief in that thing. So the left has a very pure

critical America theory. They say look back to how bad Christopher Columbus was, look bad at all

these bad things George Washington said or did, look at how many slaves people was, look bad at all these bad things George Washington

Sutter did, look at how many slaves people owned, look how Thomas Jefferson, this and that

and the other thing, especially the owning slaves. And they push these buttons. Look at, you know,

it doesn't matter which thing, if you go through the people's history of the United States,

which there's a book that Howard Zinro, if you go through the 1619 project

from New York Times Magazine and Nicole Hannah-Jones. It is pick, whether it's historical pieces,

or if you look at other stuff, you can see that it's contemporary cultural pieces to see why

America and American life is bad. Okay. Like it's pro it's not bad bad. It's

problematic. Okay. And so therefore it demands a transformation and that transformation is going to have

to be done by people who understand why it's problematic. And so we're going to have to

empower people like Ebram Kendi to have an anti-racism institute with tens of millions of dollars that he ultimately squandered in order to fix the problems of inequality because America is bad.

Okay, so it doesn't have to be historical wrongs that you're doing critical analysis on.

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