how Republicans view Critical Race Theory
How Republicans view Critical Race Theory: "the idea that contemporary whites bear some kind of effectively hereditary guilt for the actions of slavers and segregationists"
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I think Republicans are trying to avoid "hereditary guilt" because they don't want to do anything about racism. Fixing racism and cutting taxes are incompatible goals. Today's Republican Party is an alliance between the racists and those who don't want to disadvantage themselves by doing anything about the racists.
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As you know I think inequality is a problem that is vastly larger than just racism, but I don't deny the existence of racism. Instead I see all the potent complaints about racism and then wonder -- why do we not express even more powerful complaints about economic inequality, which is even more pervasive and more destructive. We have several individuals with net worths in the hundred-billion-dollar range who are competing with each other to fly themselves into orbit around the Earth, while most people on Earth live on less than $10 per day.
People are more familiar with the idea of White Privilege than they are with the pervasive reality of Rich Privilege.
The position of the Right is: racism no longer exists so shut up.
The position of the Left ought to be: we will combat racism and sexism and classism altogether by redistributing ownership and income more fairly for everybody.
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I think Republicans are trying to avoid "hereditary guilt" because they don't want to do anything about racism. Fixing racism and cutting taxes are incompatible goals. Today's Republican Party is an alliance between the racists and those who don't want to disadvantage themselves by doing anything about the racists.
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As you know I think inequality is a problem that is vastly larger than just racism, but I don't deny the existence of racism. Instead I see all the potent complaints about racism and then wonder -- why do we not express even more powerful complaints about economic inequality, which is even more pervasive and more destructive. We have several individuals with net worths in the hundred-billion-dollar range who are competing with each other to fly themselves into orbit around the Earth, while most people on Earth live on less than $10 per day.
People are more familiar with the idea of White Privilege than they are with the pervasive reality of Rich Privilege.
The position of the Right is: racism no longer exists so shut up.
The position of the Left ought to be: we will combat racism and sexism and classism altogether by redistributing ownership and income more fairly for everybody.