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Welcome to office hours. I'm Georgia Howe. Today we sit down with PhD mathematician, author, and founder of new discourses,

James Lindsay. James' new Prager U video is titled, What is Critical Race Theory, where he breaks

down the controversial theory that is dominating educational institutions across the United States?

While many people proclaim that critical race theory is the continuation of the civil rights movement,

James explains why it is actually fundamentally opposed to the great civil rights movement

of the 1960s. Let's jump right in.

James, thank you so much for joining me. Hey, thanks for having me. So I'm actually a huge fan. I read your book, Cynical Theories. I watch a ton of your interviews, so I'm really pumped to have you here. Oh, that's exciting to hear. Thanks. Yeah, so something you brought up in the video is that critical race theory is explicitly anti-American. I want to play a quick clip and then I have a question for you.

Here it is in the words of Richard Delgado and Gene Stifanchic, two leading proponents.

Critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment rationalism, and the neutral principles of constitutional

law. Critical race theory, therefore, is the neutral principles of constitutional law.

Critical race theory, therefore, is not a continuation of the civil rights movement.

It is in fact a repudiation of it.

To critical race theorists, Martin Luther King was both wrong and naive.

White Americans can never judge blacks by the content of their character.

They can only judge them, always unfavorably, consciously or unconsciously blacks by the content of their character, they can only judge them, always

unfavorably, consciously or unconsciously, by the color of their skin.

The premise of critical race theory is totally antithetical to what Martin Luther

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