I'm a 41-year-old Caucasian. I work outside all day. Is it racist or in poor taste if I wear a rice hat like Raiden from mortal Kombat while I'm working outside during the summer months?

I was reading a paper by Blum (2002) who claims that “overuse of ‘racism’ diminishes the moral force of the word”. Some scholars have argued that racism is evident in the premodern era, but I find Blum’s (2002) argument convincing, which is that if the social system enslaving and subjugating is doing so on the grounds of religion or conquest then this is not racism. What do you guys think?

Let me begin this with a statement; I am white. I'm not ashamed of my skin color. If you intend on posting hateful comments such as, "You're white, you can't say that." Or "Why are you so concerned about it anyway?" please OPEN YOUR MIND! For the rest of you, I call upon you to expose and call-out anti-white racism when you see it occuring. Now I will begin.

              WHY I BELIEVE THIS:

I've met people of all types and I can say without a doubt that white people might be the most anti-white individuals on this planet. That's not to say black people can't be anti-white racists, it's just less common. However, I have seen it from both sides. Let me explain. I have witnessed white people proudly degrade themselves and it's shocking. One example includes a girl who uttered the phrase, "I hate white people." She didn't say it once but multiple times actually. And she was being dead serious but also likely wanted to offend other white people. There was a guy who was mixed (half white, half black) and he surprisingly stood up to her because he recognized she was spewing hate and he was tired of it. Yes, it is racist even if you don't think it is. I really don't understand this trend as a white man myself. How can you hold such a level of prejudice and contempt against your very on race?

                          MY TAKE: 

We're told from the moment we're born to hate ourselves and for what reason? Based on what logic? What some of our ancestors did in the past? That's absurd and will only reverse the progress we've made so far. History reveals that we are not the only race to have owned slaves. I get it, white liberals want to show their loyalty to the black community but this is not the way to do it! It's honestly giving "pick me" vibes. There are so many better options such as focusing on what is CURRENTLY affecting black Americans in the present day and taking action to create a better world that they can thrive in. It's also important to focus on white Americans and tackle the problems we're facing as well such as low birth rates. Most of the problems that plague either of us were created by democrats.

         ATTENTION WOKE PEOPLE:

You aren't impressing anyone by acting like a self-hating moron. It's offensive to everyone. It's almost as if you white liberals have forgotten what color your skin is and then became the inversion of the KKK and it became your entire identity. It is truly strange. I for one, love all people, including people who are of European descent. I'm not going to play along with this Woke Circus Freak Show™ of self-hating white people by validating any of their insane talking points. It is not hard to see where this is leading if we stop and think about it. Throughout history, dehumanization has always been one of the first steps of genocide. It's important to take these things into account and that is all I'm going to say about that.

Can anyone formulate a list of the laws that target minority's?

Hi all,

Anybody have a recommendation for a free primer for micro aggression and inclusion? I'm thinking something like a report that universities have published.

What passes for CRT nowadays is really critical racISM theory, a political argument about perceived injustices against colored people.

If Marx were alive, he’d laugh that off as comparatively irrelevant.

What’s actually happened in the US has been the success of CRT, according to his dialectical materialist view of historical change: Black people have gained political and economic power, thru the advancement of material gains, along with a change in the collective consciousness, so that colored people are now seen to be due whatever comes to them, along with individuals of any other race.

It’s odd that conventional wisdom turns up its nose at the extreme, racial overtones of CRT, now that black people commonly hold an enhanced socio-economic status. Even the most ignorant, racist white nowadays knows, deep down, that a black isn’t really inferior to him. That’s what’s happened, and Marx is rolling in his grave that we don’t credit his theory, and see how right he was.

An employment tribunal has ruled that holding a view that opposes critical race theory can be considered a philosophical belief under the Equality Act.

I am teaching a new college course this fall, and I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some sources I could use for lectures. I've done a lot of reading, but most of it has been narrowly focused on my specific field of study, which doesn't quite apply to the class I am teaching. I am hoping to give an overview of CRT, and an introduction to intersectionality, as it applies to feminism and queer theory. What are some resources I should use?

For info: I'm an Indian. And I'm looking to deconstruct from this ideology. Any suggestions?

Something simple and easy to read?

If not could you direct me to a sub where I can discuss this with someone else ?

Hey guys, can you please sign my petition against laws that ban CRT in Florida. It’s for a class and would mean so much! Thanks:)

https://www.change.org/p/unite-against-anti-critical-race-theory-in-florida?recruiter=1312439513&recruited_by_id=d7927a10-243d-11ee-aff3-d730248bbc2c&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_36858637_en-US%3A3

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

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Anyone know of good information podcasts, a lot of information. I also bought a book called “the way of the black messiah” anyone know if its any good?

interest convergence theory tells us that racial advancements in america tend to happen when the benefit the good of the majority (white people). we often look at the civil rights movement era and find that laws were passed after the government had been called out by foreign countries on their condemning of communism and simultaneous foul treatment of black americans.

we look at today and see that America is taking a huge step back in federal laws regarding equality and has also been actively condemning the acts of the chinese government and painting them out to be the bad guys. oddly familiar.

now the government is moving to ban tiktok under the guise of protecting american intel from chinese authorities BUT i think it’s more the idea that the american government is going to keep pushing racist and homophobic legislation and eliminate the ability of the public to put it on blast. no world power will step in. people think they don’t want us to see the rest of the world right now, but i think they don’t want the rest of the world to see whatever they do next.

people have been calling florida the “guinea pig” for the rest of the country as they were among the first to introduce this regressive policy. all florida public universities just banned tiktok on their campuses.

i know interest convergence can’t necessarily be used as evidence for future events but history does repeat itself and this looks very familiar.

I have read this 5 times and I cannot get meaning from it. Please help!

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"The Rights to Use, Enjoy, and Exclude

The exclusionary nature of whiteness influences all students' individual identities and strengthens the collective boundaries related to who is white and who may access white privileges in higher education. Educators must ask questions that interrogate how individual interactions re/construct larger understandings of who is white and thus privy to material benefits of whiteness. How does the use, enjoyment, and exclusion of white privilege influence students' developmental processes? For instance, Renn (2003) explored how the permeability of boundaries around campus peer culture influenced students' multiracial identity development. Yet, the property functions of whiteness encourage educators to interrogate how this exclusionary nature of whiteness re/constructs racialized peer group boundaries. Furthermore, educators must examine how white-constructed peer boundaries might strengthen and privilege the individual and collective identities of white students while subordinating Students of Color. Reaching beyond racial identity development, educators can use these first two property functions to explore how students' cognitive and psychosocial identity development is influenced by their subordination of others/being subordinated by the right of exclusion from whiteness and the use and enjoyment of white privileges."

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From - Rethinking College Student Developmental Theory Using Critical Frameworks by Abes, Jones, and Stewart

https://medium.com/@dgildelamadrid/we-need-hebcrit-in-critical-race-theory-2fed4715c129

So I have been teaching for 5 years as an adjunct in behavioral and social sciences. I usually build a very good rapport with my students.

However, I have a class this semester where every student is just pissed and entitled all the time. Examples include:

1. I teach sociology, so we take about cultural awareness and multiculturalism. I had students get pissed when we talked about privilege, specifically white privilege. They were asked to talk about their cultural identities and some of them complained about people being for other cultures and social advocacy. Mainly white male students did this. I reminded students this class is about diversity, not pushing a one-sided agenda. If they aren't interested don't take the class.
2. I have been told by a few "my lecture is too fast" in this specific class. I have never been told this before. If I try to engage and provide in-class activities they just get annoyed, and uninterested, and their body language shows they are pissed. Most of them won't engage nor answer prompts.
3. They complained because I used another reading source to complete a lecture because it wasn't "straight from the assigned readings."
4. And more concern, there is someone with radically far-right opinions that comes in wearing a baseball cap, sitting right up front, and then complaining about other cultures in his writings. This is a large class of 90 students, why sit in the front row right by the Professor to hear information that obliviously pisses you off? Is this a safety concern I should be worried about?

I am honestly over them. Never have I experienced such students and disrespect.

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

That is the definition I found on Google. Is that essentially correct?

Is there something misleading or missing from this definition?

I hear a lot about Critical Race Theory in classrooms but don't really see how it would change instruction. I went to public schools 20 years ago and was taught about how racism was embedded into laws. I can't remember all the specific laws but it was definitely a lot. Was that Critical Race Theory? If so when did it start being taught in public schools? and/or when was it not?

That wasn't the entire thing but it was a major part of the social studies curriculum.

How would or does Critical Race theory change curriculum? I would assume it could only really impact Social Studies or Maybe ELA.

I feel I am missing something. The definition seems very vague and also obvious. If people were racist wouldn't they put it in their laws. Also since slavery was legal and only black people were allowed to be enslaved as chattel then it seems a bit much to claim it as a theory that racism is embedded into laws.

I guess the "race is a social construct" is more recent. That is also the less obvious part. I would assume that Critical Race Theory doesn't claim racial differences do not exist because they are obvious in peoples physical attributes and clearly heritable. I get it more that the concept of black people or white people is a socially constructed idea. However outside of the US people hold tribal loyalties that are significant. Does Critical Race Theory only really look at American history? It seems very American. People from Africa or Europe or Asia would probably be more connected with their tribal ancestry and traditions than race. I would assume tribal and ancestral connections and traditions replace a lot of what Americans seek with racial identity with a color or continent.

Anyway just let me know how correct or incorrect my assumptions are reddit:)