Jerusalem War Bias the Dark Side of Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory has been a point of contention between the left and the right political parties, a growing political cultural phenomena that has deepened the chasm between liberal democrats and conservative republicans.

TIME reports, President Trump, when asked why he had halted critical race theory, stated, “We were paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas, and frankly, very sick ideas. And really, they were teaching people to hate our country…”

As also reported by the TIME column: Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founding scholars of CRT and the executive director and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, says that critical race theory “is a practice—a way of seeing how the fiction of race has been transformed into concrete racial inequities.”

Republicans believe that CRT is a ploy summed up by liberals to derail solidity in our government, and Democrats believe that this bolster is due to the fear of pointing out that the United States has built an unequal system where rich white men win out.

But what happens when racial injustice is explicitly ignored in our government, so defining the effects of systemic inequality based on historical biases?

The definition we found on Google for Critical Race Theory is: a theory holding that racial bias is inherent in many parts of western society, especially in its legal and social institutions, on the basis of their having been primarily designed for and implemented by white people.

But true Critical Race Theory goes deeper than that. True Critical Race Theory is the study of the affects of a bias from belief systems and social concepts based on what is common and institutional knowledge within a culture. Where decisions are not made based on critical analysis of the problem, but on prejudices inherently formed by the structure of a system.

In Biden’s address to the American people, Wednesday October 11th about the crisis in Jerusalem where Hamas militants initiated war by the use of guerilla war tactics against the state of Israel, his speech was riddled with echoes from Jewish history, as well as Middle East History. “You all know these traumas never go away…infants in their mothers arms, grandpas in their wheelchairs, Holocaust survivors abducted and held hostage… The blood thirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS… But sadly, for the Jewish people, this is not new, this attack has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by a millennia of antisemitism and genocide of the Jewish people.”

By summoning the memory of WWII and the more recent Iraq and Afghani wars, Biden attached what is known as an anchor, a neuro-linguistic-programming that relates one scenario to another. He associated Hamas to Hitler and to ISIS. Using the predefined biases based on what common knowledge we, universally as a planet, know to be terribly negative connections. Creating a racial inequity based on a fiction of that race.

It’s just bad form.

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