Recent content by eyrei

Yep. And it is partially correct in that assertion. However, one of the very valid criticisms of this theory is that it is too US-centric while claiming to apply to all humans and all societies.

I love this particular tidbit from the wikipedia article regarding the history of CRT: The first formal meeting centered on CRT was the 1989 "New Developments in Critical Race Theory" workshop, an effort to connect the theoretical underpinnings of critical legal studies (CLS) to the day-to-day...

See, the other possibility you aren't considering is that I'm correct about this, and your 'cutting edge science' is not solid enough to undergo the slightest scrutiny. There is a reason CRT falls back into the shadows shortly after exposure every decade or so. Its just not a solid theory...

Sort of a conspiracy theory, but doesn't it bias their opinions a little that their livelihoods depend on this theory being mainstream?

I read the entire wikipedia article twice, and have engaged in this discussion in order to develop an understanding of CRT. Most of the forum is actually being helpful and arguing with me. You just keep restating things you consider facts, but that I consider opinions. Its like talking to a...

I would argue that race as a social construct was developed over time based on unscientific understandings of genetics, starting well before the word was even coined. That makes it a fundamentally biological concept. It certainly was abused by the power hungry, but that does not make it...

I've presented numerous arguments and evidence. You have done nothing except tell me to read stuff...like 5 times now. Race is absolutely biological. Not even sure how to think of it otherwise. Genetics provide human uniqueness, but they also provide similarities that we refer to as race...

One of the reasons those types of people have power is that we give them openings when we take things like CRT too seriously. Its basically a backlash against any perceived enemy of their chosen way of life, which in this case is science/dinosaurs, but in many other cases is people that don't...

The problem now is, common sense solutions to some of these problems are begin lumped in with a theory/model that does not hold up under scrutiny, which endangers progress that was made in those areas.

I am aware of the issues with standardized testing, though, I find it interesting that I have absolutely no idea what a Regatta is either, as a white male...with a degree in English. IIRC, those type of questions are on the 'verbal' part of the test, which is testing vocabulary as well as...

This is the sort of thing I was pointing out earlier, where the interpretations for these studies are questionable. If white people are correcting their initial bias within half a second then we (some of us at least) are trying to bypass some sort of primordial thought pattern already, with...

Its going to be a hard sell to convince people that it isn't biological until we actually encounter aliens...

What specific interventions could be applied to oppressed populations based on this theory? Presumably, the purpose of the research is to understand the experience of the oppressed group well enough to do something about it...what was learned from this research that can be applied in a...

Wikipedia...

Try actually refuting the issues with this theory I'm pointing out...can you?