Dinesh D'Souza breaks down Critical Race Theory

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The elephant in the room -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcoIouZHwus

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Think of the plight of the teachers if they are unable to teach the kids to hate themselves
~Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers

The News Junkie's Cartoons -AFT President Randi Weingarten: No comment, just watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXEqI5YTizs
2:29

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Another fine example of why public schools should be defunded.

"Let's be clear - we are not teaching CRT. But it is horrible that these 'culture warriors' are trying to stop us from teaching CRT." So which is it?


Heard a lot of chatter over the years of people being 'automatically unsubscribed' from Youtube channels but, although I was blocked from commenting for 2 months spring of last year, being 'automatically unsubbed' never happened to me till this week with this channel.

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This is a nice channel I recently came across explaining the actions and motivations of the progressive institutional and activist left. Lots of good takes towards understanding current events. Videos usually longer then they need to be (too repetitive IMO) but less so this one.


It's simple. Choose something imperfect in the world that you'd like to complain about. Identify a politically actionable outcome you hope to achieve, probably a Leftist one. Blame everyone for incidences of the problem by thinking "systemically" and assign them moral complicity and responsibility for the problem you started with. Demand systemic change. Then close off all disagreement or questioning as an attempt to maintain the "status quo" of "the system," which only an evil person who wants those problems to continue would do. That's it. That's the anatomy of a Critical Theory. Join James in this episode to hear how ridiculously simple and absurd it is so you can protect yourself from Critical Theories in other lines of thought.

New Discourses: How to Make a Critical Theory Out of Anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUc0OmHf7Fw
50:44

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The elephant in the room -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcoIouZHwus

Can not share this. 3 commercials I have to deal with before able and that leads to a completely different video.

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Best explanation of the last several years of 'leftist' activities and its supporting Antifa, academia, public service, DC Democrat politics and CNN, MSNBC, etc. type journalist 'activism' I've yet come across. A critical review of Herbert Marcuse's "An Essay on Liberation" (1969). If your pressed for time try 5 minutes or so starting at 1:38.


New Discourses- Marcuse's Subverting Forces in Transition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMed4XD8wYY
2:31:31

The more one reads of Herbert Marcuse, the father of the New Left, the less there is to recommend his ideas and more there is to recommend learning about them. This is because thanks to the New Left that he spawned, we live in Herbert Marcuse's twisted world, which may now be in the early stages of collapse. This episode of the New Discourses Podcast features James Lindsay taking us through the third part in Marcuse's infamous 1969 essay, "An Essay on Liberation" (https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar...). In this part of the essay, Marcuse makes an argument for forging an alliance movement between the bourgeois Leftists students and intelligentsia in the universities and the minority and "ghetto" populations that were, at the time in their militancy movements, showing the necessary energy for revolution. Hear him make the case for the ends justifying the means for Leftist revolutionary movements among other shockers (spoiler: he indicates that his New Left movement should be driven by a refusal to grow up and get a job, for example, because attacking functioning, prosperous, free societies is a moral duty, including by refusing to participate). He even explicitly compares his own movement to what we now call "Clownworld."

This episode of the New Discourses podcast is part three in a four-part series that reads through "An Essay on Liberation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse; (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory... He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School...

Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency)... In the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States; some consider him "the Father of the New Left".

His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally...

His family was Jewish. In 1916 he was drafted into the German Army, but only worked in horse stables in Berlin during World War I. He then became a member of a Soldiers' Council that participated in the aborted socialist Spartacist uprising...

With his academic career blocked by the rise of the Third Reich, in 1933 Marcuse joined the Institute for Social Research, popularly known as the Frankfurt School. He went almost at once into exile with them, first briefly in Geneva, then in the United States.



newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/secret-reports-nazi-germany-neumann-marcuse-and-kircheimer-possible-patterns-german- (https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/08/secret-reports-nazi-germany-neumann-marcuse-and-kircheimer-possible-patterns-german-)

Question: what do you get if you take three neo-Marxist intellectuals from the Frankfurt School and put them in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the US’s wartime intelligence agency and the forerunner of the CIA? Answer: some of the most brilliant analysis of Nazi Germany ever written and a valuable lesson in postwar planning.

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Wikileaks.org: CIA report from 2010: Use feminism to reduce Western opposition to military occupation of Afghanistan (https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan_war_support_in_W estern_Europe,_11_Mar_2010)

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Author of a recent book on Critical Race Theory has simplifying insight about Critical Race Theory, it is just repackaged Marxism!
White people have been substituted for bourgeoisie and property they wish to put an end to.

“The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

The abolition of white individuality, white independence, and white freedom is undoubtedly aimed at. -Critical Race Theory

Again long video ideal for those with lots of time. Perhaps the last 1/3 or so is a little more condensed.

New Discourses: Critical Race Theory Is Race Marxism
Since the book is so broad and has so much to expose, there's even more to say about the specific claim in the title, that Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, Lindsay goes into tremendous detail linking Marx's Theory of Communism directly to Critical Race Theory, showing in clear detail how Critical Race Theory reproduces those ideas in a new form that replaces economic class with race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJ-kbmDLY4&t=3s
1:39:49

Another example:

Marxism:
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.”― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Critical Race Theory:
You are horrified at our intending to do away with white people. But in your existing world white people is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a race, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of whiteness for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with white people. Precisely so: that is just what we intend.

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Good video podcast (below) breaking down Critical Gender Theory being taught in public schools.

God (Natural Law) did not make humans to be slaves, to suffer intra-species predation. The natural state of human 'r' type behavior or the 'left' is for children, the disabled and widows, perhaps also for some organized war (and sports) although not for hunting. More on r/K biological theory applied to politics: Thread: r/K Selection – The Forbidden Theory (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?89665-r-K-Selection-%96-The-Forbidden-Theory&highlight=theory+applied+politics)


Marxist International Communism, and Marxist critical theory expansion beyond revolution against class and private property, is the NWO policy (predatory plot) of weakening and damaging nations by degenerating behavior towards 'r' herd behavior ( lowest common denominator 'equality' of disability, dependency and slavery) and inducing revolutionary chaos by inciting herd signaling against individual and group natural and national behaviors and between individuals or groups and individuals. Thus the Marxist and Marxist fomenter may tolerate or even be supported by individuals and groups supporting division within a target nation that signal against and criticize the Marxist's victims, also long as such 'opposition' does not inform, nor signal against the specific Marxist peoples, groups or systems that create those victims.

Quote from the podcast @1:06:

"Its not even just pedophiles, its pedophiles and groomers and sexual weirdos being driven by a Marxist ideology that knows that destabilizing sexual morality by deconstructing childhood innocence by framing it as a false narrative and socially constructed imposition of power from one generation to the next , that they can create conditions of great societal unrest, that children will not just be sexually groomable and usable and thus perpetuating the cycle of abuse from which all of this really springs (the abused often become abusers, this whole movement is predicated on people being abusers) but they can also politically groom people into becoming what Mao referred to as a red guard that wants to overthrow.

[They tell their child victims] here's this thing that you are very interested in (sex and sexuality) so your an adolescent so it becomes very powerful, so you have a destabilized identity without an essence, you don't know who are and that your being groomed at school into thinking about yourself as a sexual identity and a gender identity or weird romantic identity and there is hundreds of them and they are fluid and move around and you can't really know who you are and the reason that your going through this crazy process of self discovery and everything is so confusing is actually because the older generation lied to you the entire time and why did they lie to you? So they could maintain the power structures that are evil like cis-hetero normativity, homophobia, transphobia, racism. They wanted to maintain the social order that benefited them and keeps benefitting them into old age and they are oppressing you doing violence (as Judith Butler said a "violence of categorization") on you, the child the student the adolescent who can't even figure out who you really are, your true sexual and gender and romantic identity and essence.

So the whole point is to destabilize children to make them politically groomable into hating the existing order of society, so they can overthrow it. And of the physical and sexual abuse of children that will come part and parcel with this? Hey its just part of the process as far as they [Marxist groomers] are concerned. Its just an externality. In fact its kind of net beneficial [to child predators], but you know they have to distance themselves from it so they can look like good people...

[The ultimate goal is] to bring adults and children and educational environemnts to the same level... [to propagandize them that] values are being imposed on you... just to keep you repressed from who you really are, you should hate it, you should hate the society that did it to you, you should hate everything, your miserable because these stupid older adults have the wrong culture that we could all be liberated from. And that's the political grooming that is connected to the sexual and psychological grooming that is rooted in queer theory, that is being mainlined into our schools through gender ideology and queer theory under the brands of social and emotional learning for example and comprehensive sex education.

You must understand that this is very intentional... its not just actualy people trying to help... this is a grooming project by people with an incredibly radical political agenda, they want to destabilize all of western civilization, and if they have to destroy your children to do it, they are not only willing but they are eager because the cycle of abuse marches on one page after another, one generation after another... and they are trying to invert this cycle of abuse as actually a liberating concept: 'If we can liberate the sexuality of children we can obliterate the innocence of children, then we can have a non repressive societal order finally.' It begins by, according to [Herbert] Marcuse, freeing sexuality between what he termed as "mature individuals" which I would argue for them will be people who have been programmed or groomed to think in terms of a critical theory... 'people who think like we do are mature, everyone else is woefully ignorant'...is in white innocence, is not having an awakened critical consciousness and it is a form of privilege to not have one...

This has to be pushed out of our schools with enormous prejudice."

New Discourses: Groomer Schools 1: The Long Cultural Marxist History of Sex Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEP0JGW3c8
1:17:34

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Marxist Queer theory pioneers mentioned in the above podcast:

thebridgelifeinthemix.info: In Profile : György Lukács And The Frankfurt School (https://thebridgelifeinthemix.info/history/profile-frankfurt-school/)

One of the thinkers to whom the soul of the Frankfurt Group (School) is attributed is a man called György Lukács. He was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and a philosopher of Leninist strategy but shifted the Marxist method to focus on the cultural attributes. He fomented and agitated for the creation of subversive programs to be operated after the success of the military principle of Marxist Revolution.

His compadre Antonio Gramsci believed that a “new” person must be ‘culturally’ created before a Marxist socialist state could succeed. His focus was on the fields of education and media.

Lukács believed that existing cultural norms had to be destroyed in order to replace them with something new. He said :

“I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch…. Such a worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.”

Sanctifying such an inner need to control others comes through the Tikkun loam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam) which gives licence for those who hold this, as a divine right to destroy your culture.
wikipedia: György_Lukács (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs)

György Lukács... was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxist ideological orthodoxy of the Soviet Union. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution...

Lukács was born Löwinger György Bernát in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, to the investment banker József Löwinger and his wife Adele Wertheimer, who were a wealthy Jewish family.
wikipedia: Judith_Butler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler)

Judith Pamela Butler... is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In 1993, Butler began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where they have served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School.

Butler is best known for their books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity. This theory has had a major influence on feminist and queer scholarship...

Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent.

In yesterday's news:

yahoo.com: Randi Weingarten Claims Parental-Choice Legislation Is the ‘Way in Which Wars Start’ (https://news.yahoo.com/randi-weingarten-claims-parental-choice-235907558.html)
Fri, April 22, 2022

wikipedia: Randi Weingarten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Weingarten)

Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. She is president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and a member of the AFL–CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers...

Rhonda "Randi" Weingarten was born in 1957 in New York City, to a Jewish family,