A number of years ago I coined the phrase "progressive denialism" in a conversation with friends as a way to describe that "the slippery slope " was actually part of progressive agendas. At the time, I thought it was a pretty astute observation for a person like me. Now you can't talk to anyone left of center without them denying to your face the existence of the very ideas and policies they support.
Sundance over at the conservative treehouse has long said that leftists need to pretend not to know things in order to push their agenda. They constantly play dumb as a form of plausible deniability so that everything that is happening appears to be purely random or accidental as opposed to deliberate and planned. Because you can’t oppose random shit happening for no reason.
And anyone who does oppose it is simply fighting against the forces of history. Backwards, behind the times. Reactionary and soon to be made extinct by the natural progress of humanity.
When CRT writers themselves are lying about thier own publications on national television and pretending they don't know what it means, despite writing entire books and treatise on the damn thing; you can't possibly expect an NPC to understand it.
The fact that you even called it a legal theory is part of the problem. Even that's a lie. CRT was never a legal theory. That's Critical Theory. The Critical Race Theorists completely broke away from the Critical Theorists because they were working in the legal tradition, and the CRT-er's wanted to apply the dialectic to race explicitly, and to all areas. And yes, they did call the Critical Theorists racists and demanded they be expelled, because that's how they always worked.
The problem with propaganda like critical race theory is that it has two sides to its meaning.
It has its marketed meaning. For example if you watch a TV advertisement for a new cleaning product, the advertisement might say it's a cleaning product that doesn't damage any surfaces but it's able to remove any stain. If someone asks you "what's this cleaning product?" If you answer with the marketed meaning, you'll say "it's a cleaning product that doesn't damage any surface but can remove any stain." This sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it? Who wouldn't want this cleaning product? It's great.
On the other hand, if you actually buy the product and use it so you can form your own opinion about the product you might realize it doesn't remove all stains and does in fact damage some surfaces. If someone asks you what the product is, you might say "it's just a cleaning solution that damages certain surfaces and can't removes certain stains." Now this cleaning product doesn't sound all that attractive, does it?
Two completely different "meanings" for the exact same product.
The vast majority of people on the left, including even the people with PhDs in the subject only know the marketed meaning of Critical Race Theory. They don't understand what it truly actually is about.
A number of years ago I coined the phrase "progressive denialism" in a conversation with friends as a way to describe that "the slippery slope " was actually part of progressive agendas. At the time, I thought it was a pretty astute observation for a person like me. Now you can't talk to anyone left of center without them denying to your face the existence of the very ideas and policies they support.
Sundance over at the conservative treehouse has long said that leftists need to pretend not to know things in order to push their agenda. They constantly play dumb as a form of plausible deniability so that everything that is happening appears to be purely random or accidental as opposed to deliberate and planned. Because you can’t oppose random shit happening for no reason.
And anyone who does oppose it is simply fighting against the forces of history. Backwards, behind the times. Reactionary and soon to be made extinct by the natural progress of humanity.
"Know what it is" is very unlikely.
When CRT writers themselves are lying about thier own publications on national television and pretending they don't know what it means, despite writing entire books and treatise on the damn thing; you can't possibly expect an NPC to understand it.
The fact that you even called it a legal theory is part of the problem. Even that's a lie. CRT was never a legal theory. That's Critical Theory. The Critical Race Theorists completely broke away from the Critical Theorists because they were working in the legal tradition, and the CRT-er's wanted to apply the dialectic to race explicitly, and to all areas. And yes, they did call the Critical Theorists racists and demanded they be expelled, because that's how they always worked.
The problem with propaganda like critical race theory is that it has two sides to its meaning.
It has its marketed meaning. For example if you watch a TV advertisement for a new cleaning product, the advertisement might say it's a cleaning product that doesn't damage any surfaces but it's able to remove any stain. If someone asks you "what's this cleaning product?" If you answer with the marketed meaning, you'll say "it's a cleaning product that doesn't damage any surface but can remove any stain." This sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it? Who wouldn't want this cleaning product? It's great.
On the other hand, if you actually buy the product and use it so you can form your own opinion about the product you might realize it doesn't remove all stains and does in fact damage some surfaces. If someone asks you what the product is, you might say "it's just a cleaning solution that damages certain surfaces and can't removes certain stains." Now this cleaning product doesn't sound all that attractive, does it?
Two completely different "meanings" for the exact same product.
The vast majority of people on the left, including even the people with PhDs in the subject only know the marketed meaning of Critical Race Theory. They don't understand what it truly actually is about.
That's not "two sides", it's just lies. But then, no one here has to explain that the Left lies about itself.
Well, yes, it's lies. The problem is that the left doesn't understand it's lies.