CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION # 1 OF 2

CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION # 1 OF 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - BLOG, "CINOPS BE GONE" TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2021

 

WALL STREET JOURNAL, JUNE 22, 2021, FREE EXPRESSION: BY GERARD BAKER

"CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION"

 

    I learned economics from a Marxist. It was at the height of the Cold War, a critical moment when the survival of the West seemed in doubt, an age when many people, even those under no illusions about the unfolding terror of Soviet communism wondered whether capitalism days might be numbered.

      My tutor at a famous university in the English heartlands was one of the most prominent socialist intellectuals. His works anatomized and anathematized - the capitalist system from the traditional Marxian perspective. 

 

    His wider writings championed a structuralist view of society and its institutions. He not only inveighed against the supposed moral inferiority of capitalism. He was convinced about the inevitability of its collapse under the weight of is contradictions. 

    But Andrew Glyn was first and foremost a teacher, an intellectually insatiable pedagogue with a desire to foster among his students a hunger for a broad understanding of the discipline. His reading list each included the canon of classical economic thought (Adam Smith, David Hume, David Ricardo), John Maynard Keynes and his followers, and a thorough going in the modern neo-classical and monetarist works (F.A. Hayek and Chicago school, Milton Friedman especially).

 

    No thinker - no ideology - was off limits. It was the early days of Reagan-Thatcher counterrevolution. Neither seemed guaranteed of success at the time, and we were encouraged - in fact required - both to learn what they were doing and to understand dispassionately its intellectual origins. 

    Glyn was also - unexpectedly for those of us who thought communists were touche types with disdain for the protocols of petit bourgeois society- a rigid disciplinarian. Woe betide you if you hadn't done the reading each week. Obliging attempts to blame our sloth on the inherent class injustices of a medieval university system or the ennui induced by late-stage capitalism would be greeted with a thin smile and a final warning.

 

    He believed - passionately - that his own critique of the Western system was right. But he had no intention of forcing his students onto a narrow intellectual path that would preclude the possibility of our embracing alternatives.

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        Excerpts from Wall Street Journal, Mon. June 28, 2021 , By Christopher F. Ruffo,

"Battle Over Critical Race Theory"

 

    First of three: critical race theory isn't an exercise in promoting racial sensitivity or understanding history. It's a racist ideology that seeks to use race as a means of moral, social and political revolution. The left-leaning media has sought to portray it as a "lens" for examining the history of racism in the U.S., but this soft framing obscures the nature of the theory, which maintains that America is irredeemably racist nation and that the constitutional principles of freedom and equality are mere "camouflages," in the words of scholar William F. Tate IV, for white supremacy. 

    The solution to prominent exponents of critical race theory such as Ibram X. Kendi, is to abolish capitalism and install a near-omnipotent federal bureaucracy with the power to nullify any law and silence speech that isn't "anti-racist." .... "Commentary"

 

    "Critical Race Theory is a Communist/Marxist interpretation of American History. It's a diabolical and atheist belief system.  Its purpose is to divide and destroy America. Putin lost the Cold War. Putin's revenge is "Critical Race Theory." To have Karl Marx interpret America is an insult to our integrity and intelligence. Communists are masters of deceit and deception. Look around us. Check what regular American Communists did to us in the books, "Vernona Secrets," and "Useful Idiots." 

    To "Dowd" Bill Bratton, acknowledged that what befell George Floyd was "100 percent a murder" but he also condemned the leaders of Black Lives Matter as "a bunch of Marxists."" ghk

 

George H. Kubeck