@coldjoint,
The Frankfurt School did
not create Critical Race Theory. That you need to rely on a right-wing source to back up your claim is laughably explanatory. While Frankfurt Critical Theory did have an influence on much subsequent left-wing political analysis, Critical Race Theory did not originate in the Frankfurt School. That's like saying that that Freud developed Metacognitive Therapy.
Quote:Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in US law schools, bringing together issues of power, race, and racism to address the liberal notion of color blindness, and argues that ignoring racial difference maintains and perpetuates the status quo with its deeply institutionalized injustices to racial minorities. This essay introduces CRT as a theoretical frame by which to better understand discourses of race and racism in contemporary color blind and supposed post-racial societies. This work is situated within rhetorical studies so as to trace connections between CRT scholarship and literatures in anti-racist rhetoric that seek to understand, challenge, and dismantle systems of racism.
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And, by the way, "Cultural Marxism" is a right-wing invention:
Quote:Whenever conservatives see something they don’t like that has the hallmarks of diversity and equality, you will quickly hear cries of “Cultural Marxism!” This phenomenon has only increased as the far-right has gained a foothold in America’s popular and political culture. So, you’ve probably been wondering: What is cultural Marxism?
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It is very hard to explain what cultural Marxism is because the term describes something that doesn’t exist. It refers to a vast conspiracy dating back to the early 20th century in which academics launched a campaign to take over intellectual, cultural, and artistic institutions. Then, they “promoted and even enforced ideas which were intended to destroy Christian values and overthrow free enterprise.” What were these ideas? Feminism, multiculturalism, gay rights and atheism, to name a few.
The problem is that this never actually happened.
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Traditional Right wrote:The Frankfurt School’s primary goal was to destroy Western culture, which it defined as “oppressive”.
All the writings of the Frankfurt School put together haven't done as much damage to Western Culture in 75 years as the right-wing assault on truth, led by Donald Trump, has done in four:
Quote:How did mail-in voting, a practice that U.S. states have implemented for decades, become so polarized in a matter of months? A new report by a research team at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society argues that the myth that vote-by-mail is susceptible to widespread fraud has been propagated in a “coordinated disinformation campaign” by President Donald Trump and other Republican Party elites—not by the fringe internet actors commonly associated with “fake news.” Instead, the authors explain, the disinformation campaign led by the president has been reported by mass media outlets as though there were a legitimate debate over mail-in voter fraud, misleading the least politically engaged Americans about the security of vote-by-mail.
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Interestingly, Bill Lind, the guy who coined the fake term "Cultural Marxism", believes that the decline of the USA isn't due to left-wing intellectuals criticizing our reality TV culture but because of "overextension".
Quote:Great powers tend to follow a similar pattern of rise, a short time of dominance, overextension, and fall. It is ever more clear that this country is following the classic pattern. Our period of dominance ran roughly from 1945 to 1965; its end was marked by our defeat in Vietnam. We are now in the latter stages of the phase of overextension. Fall, I suspect, lies around the next corner.
I would like to be able to say President Trump grasps the root problem, but as the pernicious neo-con influence on him grows, he too is stoking the fires of overextension. His withdrawal from the treaty with Russia that limited intermediate-range missiles is one example. His action is in direct opposition to his promise as a candidate to improve relations with Russia. Instead, he has ended up driving Russia and China into alignment against us, giving this country an entirely avoidable rising threat to its diminishing power.
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To sum up, the pernicious ideas which rightists attribute to "Cultural Marxism" — feminism, progressive education, diversity, homosexual rights, freedom from religion — were all developed before the Frankfurt School even came into existence. The USA's path on the road to self-destruction has been paved by our own ignorance, greed, and naiveté.
