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What Is Critical Race Theory?

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard of Critical Race Theory? If you haven’t, you will. It’s coming to a high school, college, or workplace diversity training session near you. What do you need to know about it, and what can you do to stop it?

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0:00.0

Have you heard about critical race theory? I'm guessing you probably have.

0:04.1

It has already insinuated itself into many institutions and is making rapid progress

0:09.2

into others. If it takes hold, it will completely change the very nature of America and the way

0:14.5

you live.

0:16.2

Critical race theory holds that the most important thing about you is your race. The color

0:20.8

of your skin, that's who you are. Not your behavior, not your values, not your environment,

0:27.5

your race.

0:29.2

In critical race theory, if you are a member of a minoritized racial group, their term,

0:34.0

not mine, you are a victim of a system that is rigged against you, a system that doesn't

0:38.9

want you to succeed. On the other hand, if your race is privileged, you're an exploiter,

0:45.3

whether you intend to be or not. Critical race theory begins from the assumption that

0:49.9

racism occurs in all interactions. To see how this works, consider this thought experiment.

0:56.4

Imagine you own a shop and two customers enter at the same time, one white and one black.

1:02.1

Who do you help first?

1:04.1

If you help the black person first, critical race theory would say you did so because you

1:08.1

don't trust black people to be left alone in your store. That's racist.

1:13.0

If you help the white person first instead, critical race theory would say you did so because

1:17.2

you think blacks are second class citizens. That's racist too.

1:22.1

That's critical race theory. It can find racism in anything, even if it has to read your

1:26.9

mind to do it.

1:29.5

Critical race theory is a uniquely American invention. Brut up at Harvard Law School in the

1:34.5

70s, now part of the academic and media mainstream, it is also uniquely un-American because

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