How is Critical Race Theory specifically anti American ?

[Del Tachi]

Critical race theory is explicitly incompatible with liberal solutions to racial inequality such as meritocracy and non-discrimination.  CRT's solution to racism is to recreate every personal and civic interaction into one that is explicitly race conscious, which is an idea incongruent with American principles and law.   

[Del Tachi]

Critical race theory is explicitly incompatible with liberal solutions to racial inequality such as meritocracy and non-discrimination.  CRT's solution to racism is to recreate every personal and civic interaction into one that is explicitly race conscious, which is an idea incongruent with American principles and law.   

Being color-blind isn't the answer. But acknowledge the privilege and oppression caused by racism, and its still-rippling effects, is not incongruent with American principles and laws. That's a major misunderstanding. You can have the law strive to offer equal protection regardless of race, and not have a person's race a factor in court cases and other policies, while still recognizing the impact of racism that does exist.

American civil rights jurisprudence leans very heavily into the notion of a colorblind Constitution, where there exists no distinct race-based classes of citizens before the law.  Critical race theorists would reject this approach as insufficient to correct for racial injustice.  Do you agree or disagree with them?       

[Del Tachi]

Critical race theory is explicitly incompatible with liberal solutions to racial inequality such as meritocracy and non-discrimination.  CRT's solution to racism is to recreate every personal and civic interaction into one that is explicitly race conscious, which is an idea incongruent with American principles and law.   

Being color-blind isn't the answer. But acknowledge the privilege and oppression caused by racism, and its still-rippling effects, is not incongruent with American principles and laws. That's a major misunderstanding. You can have the law strive to offer equal protection regardless of race, and not have a person's race a factor in court cases and other policies, while still recognizing the impact of racism that does exist.

American civil rights jurisprudence leans very heavily into the notion of a colorblind Constitution, where there exists no distinct race-based classes of citizens before the law.  Critical race theorists would reject this approach as insufficient to correct for racial injustice.  Do you agree or disagree with them?       

That is simply incorrect. Most civil rights jurisprudence dozen fact acknowledged the existence of intrinsic racism oh, and the need to redress it. The post-civil war amendments to the Constitution our fundamental foundation for this

The Civil War amendments, if they can be said to have been passed to deal with the problem of "systemic racism", did so through the explicit prohibition of enforcing race-based categories under the law (i.e., equal protection for all citizens.)  That is a solution modern Critical Race Theory rejects as insufficient (quite obviously, since 150 years of 14th Amendment jurisprudence has led them to this very conclusion.)

It's hilarious to me how red avatars will fall over themselves defending something they don't even understand if it means they get to "oWn th eCoNz!" 

[Del Tachi]

Critical race theory is explicitly incompatible with liberal solutions to racial inequality such as meritocracy and non-discrimination.  CRT's solution to racism is to recreate every personal and civic interaction into one that is explicitly race conscious, which is an idea incongruent with American principles and law.   

There is no such thing as true meritocracy unless every child starts off on an equal playing field from day one.

I don't disagree with you, per se.  But that isn't the Critical Race Theorist's point.  CRT would argue that the very system/process of "meritocracy" reinforces and perpetuates White supremacy; that, even if you had children enter a meritocratic system on "an equal playing field", the structure will inherently replicate racial inequality unless "White privilege" is explicitly corrected for.  Do you agree with that?