Why Critical Race Theory Is Un-American | OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Ep. 49

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

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This episode of the OnlySubs Podcast with James Lindsay is available for FREE to everyone! To get access to all past and future episodes, consider becoming a contributor. Learn more by clicking here: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/announcing-new-subscribers-only-podcast-james-lindsay/ Critical Race Theory tries to bill itself as the continuation of the Civil Rights Movement, which was a true achievement of the American Experiment, but is it? Of course it's not (https://newdiscourses.com/2021/02/no-critical-race-theory-does-not-continue-the-civil-rights-movement/). To understand more about this, in this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go through the first paragraph of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (https://amzn.to/3zVLOOW) line by line and make it completely clear that Critical Race Theory rejects everything about America while mostly misrepresenting itself. Join me as I take a deep-dive into just what Critical Race Theory sees itself as rejecting. -James Lindsay Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-discourses/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, I'm James Lindsay and you are listening to my subscribers only podcast.
0:20.2	James Lindsay only subs, which means you subscribe, contribute or support me in some material
0:26.8	way and I appreciate you. I'm happy and proud to bring you this kind of exclusive content under
0:32.7	the new Discourses umbrella and I very much appreciate your support. What I want to talk about today
0:39.6	is something we've kind of brought up a few times in the past. I want to talk about critical race theory
0:43.3	and how that's fundamentally into American in a particular way. I actually want to just go into
0:48.8	the book Critical Race Theory and Introduction, which I've talked about many times over Richard
0:52.2	Delgado and Jean Stefanschik and I want to read the first paragraph and I want to investigate
0:58.0	what that first paragraph is telling us about critical race theory and what I think we're going
1:02.8	to conclude is that it is fundamentally and deeply against the American project and against
1:10.7	the project of all of free society as a matter of fact in the West. We could talk in another time
1:17.3	or another place about how that's going to be situated within the liberationist framework which
1:22.0	seeks liberation from free capitalist societies into a more collectivist frame, socialism without
1:27.6	the bureaucracies as it has been phrased but that's not the goal here. We're just going to take apart,
1:32.4	we're going to read and take apart this first paragraph of critical race theory and introduction so
1:35.9	we can better understand what critical race theory is really about, really understand where it
1:41.1	stands in relationship to the key ideas of the American project and all of free Western civilization.
1:49.2	So, we begin. I'll just read the paragraph. Actually, let me frame out who Richard Delgado and
1:55.6	Jean Stefanschik are. Jean Stefanschik, I know much less about as a person. She is Richard Delgado's
2:00.8	partner, both writing and life and Richard Delgado has been a very, he's in his 80s now if I'm
2:06.9	not mistaken. He's been a prolific and significant figure in the critical race theory project
2:13.6	from very early on, many years, 40 years or more now. So, he's not a fringe player.
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