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What Is Critical Immigration Theory?

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Critical Theory is key to understanding how the left thinks. They’ve applied it to race, colonialism, and feminism. James Lindsay reveals how they’re going to use it next. Get ready.

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0:00.0

I'm going to tell you what the next big thing is going to be. I'm going to tell you because I want you to be prepared for it.

0:08.0

I know what it is, not because I have the power to look into the future, but because I know how the left thinks.

0:14.3

And if you know how the left thinks, it's obvious.

0:17.5

Are you ready?

0:19.1

Critical immigration theory.

0:21.1

No, not critical race theory, CRT, critical immigration theory, CIT. Let me explain.

0:30.2

The left currently prefers one mode of analysis above all others.

0:33.7

It's called Critical Theory.

0:35.7

The great thing about Critical Theory is that it's so flexible.

0:39.6

Stick any word between Critical and Theory

0:42.4

and you have a new way of seeing the world. Stick any word between critical and theory,

0:42.7

and you have a new way of seeing the world.

0:45.7

After George Floyd died in May 2020,

0:48.3

the left unleashed critical race theory upon America.

0:51.7

They had been floating around in academic circles for decades, but the Floyd

0:55.4

incident, thanks to the left-leaning media, brought it into the mainstream.

1:00.1

The idea behind critical race theory was that virtually every aspect of American life is now and always has been determined by systemic racism.

1:08.0

The true founding of America was in 1619 when the first slaves arrived.

1:13.0

Slave labor built this country.

1:14.9

America got rich by exploiting black people and so on.

1:18.8

The view on the left is you either accept this theory

1:21.3

or you're a racist.

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