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Critical Race Praxis and the Weakness of Liberals

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4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 43 What's happening in our schools? It's obvious to everyone that Critical Race Theory (and the other Theories of Critical Social Justice) have been incorporated into them at virtually every level and in most subjects all across the nation, but the line is that "Critical Race Theory isn't being taught in our schools." To unpack this lie, we have to understand that Critical Theories require praxis, so while the formal and narrow theory of Critical Race Theory may not be being taught in specific, Critical Race Praxis (CRaP) is throughout our schools. It was brought in by Critical Pedagogy, which is the application of Critical Theory to education, which also requires the implementation of Theory, which is known as "praxis." Once you understand this, it's far easier to understand one of the big reasons that (classical) liberals are so ineffective at fighting back against Critical Theories and other forms of Critical Philosophy: it's because they think the argument is about ideas rather than implementation. Praxis is the religious duty of Critical Theorists, and they can keep liberals busy arguing about whether or not the Theory should be taught or banned or not taught or not banned or its details or whatever other thing that doesn't matter while they still go forward applying Theory via praxis in whatever setting. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay breaks down the distinction and intrinsic relationship between Critical Theory and Critical Praxis and thus why almost the entire discussion of what to do about this problem coming from liberal quarters misses the point and remains ineffective. Join him here to learn where the target is and how to fight this pernicious ideology more effectively. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay, you're listening to the new discourses podcast here

0:23.3

on newdiscourses.com and what I am going to do this time is something a little bit different.

0:27.8

For those of you who don't know, I have an alternative podcast that I keep usually for

0:31.9

subscribers and supporters only, contributors to the site who keep me going, keep the lights

0:37.4

on and all of that, called James Lindsay only subs and what I do in those is I'm just going

0:41.8

to talk off the cuff about something that I'm interested in and I don't really plan

0:46.2

them and it's a little bit more intimate and personal and it's a little bit more just

0:50.1

out of my head rather than some kind of like planned podcast and I was going to do this

0:56.4

episode that I'm recording now as a James Lindsay only subs and then I thought no, it's

1:00.3

just actually really important.

1:01.3

I want to get it out there as a full new discourses podcast for everybody, for the public, but

1:07.1

I also don't want to change the way I'm going to deliver it by planning it out in detail.

1:16.3

So this should give you a little bit of feel for how the James Lindsay only subs podcast

1:20.7

go.

1:21.7

They tend to be a little shorter.

1:22.7

I think this one will, we'll see what happens.

1:23.7

I think this will be shorter than my usual.

1:25.8

I will get back to reading through Herbert Marcos's essay on liberation soon.

1:31.9

It's very important that we get through that and finish it.

1:35.1

But what I want to do is kind of dive into what's actually happening in our schools and

1:39.5

why good liberals and I mean that in the classically liberal sense, keep getting their asses

1:46.4

whipped by things that are shaped like communism, whether that's Marxism, neo-Marxism, postmodernism,

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