Is Critical Race Theory indoctrination leading our military to a Maoist/Marxist revolution in the armed services?

LTC Marc King — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:28:01 -0400

Its all over the news, Commanders are being relieved of their commands, social media attacks on service members is increasing --- what is going on?

Response by SrA John Monette made Jun 11 at 2021 2:37 PM

SrA John Monette — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:37:24 -0400

i don't believe it's an indoctrination Colonel. I think it is people taking an idea that started out correctly and warped it to their own warped ideas

Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made Jun 25 at 2021 10:00 AM

SFC Michael Hasbun — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:00:08 -0400

LOL...no. CRT has been a topic in academia for decades.

"Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that racism is a social construct, and that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.

The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, emerged out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and early 1980s created by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, among others.

A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants. Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.
Today, those same patterns of discrimination live on through facially race-blind policies, like single-family zoning that prevents the building of affordable housing in advantaged, majority-white neighborhoods and, thus, stymies racial desegregation efforts.

CRT also has ties to other intellectual currents, including the work of sociologists and literary theorists who studied links between political power, social organization, and language. And its ideas have since informed other fields, like the humanities, the social sciences, and teacher education.

This academic understanding of critical race theory differs from representation in recent popular books and, especially, from its portrayal by critics—often, though not exclusively, conservative Republicans. Critics charge that the theory leads to negative dynamics, such as a focus on group identity over universal, shared traits; divides people into “oppressed” and “oppressor” groups; and urges intolerance.

Thus, there is a good deal of confusion over what CRT means, as well as its relationship to other terms, like “anti-racism” and “social justice,” with which it is often conflated."

Stephen Sawchuck

Response by MSG Stan Hutchison made Jun 27 at 2021 10:45 AM

MSG Stan Hutchison — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:45:49 -0400

I will use the KISS rule:

Your claim is nonsense!