The Courage of Our Convictions: How to Fight Critical Race Theory, by Christopher F. Rufo
Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.
Excellent authoritative summary article on this insidious Marxist ideology based on virulent hatred and envy.
The real domestic public policy issue which confronts American society is class (and not how the bureaucrats, sociologists, social justice warriors, or elite mainstream media define it as race, class, and gender, and the intersectionality of those identities, particularly as they pertain to minority experiences.).
To these divisive identity politics groups obsessed with force-feeding coercive Critical Race Theory egalitarianism upon America, it is “cultural racism” to value or promote “future time orientation” to students. Known to economists and other social scientists as “low time-preference,” this is what is called setting goals or encouraging purposeful “middle class values” such as punctuality, thrift, foresight, deferred self-gratification of needs or wants, and self-discipline as opposed to “underclass values” or “high time-preference” behaviors such as improvidence, hedonism, purposelessness, immediate self-gratification of needs or wants, and capricious spontaneity or irresponsibility.
So as you can see, not only is this “cultural racism,” but also the rankest form of “classism,” the promoting of forbidden bourgeois (middle class) values over that of what Karl Marx and his disciples label as the lumpenproletariat (underclass) values.
Épater le bourgeois (shock the middle classes) has been the revolutionary rallying cry of the left in the cultural war against Judeo-Christian morality and the nuclear two-parent family for well over a hundred and fifty years.
So why is the concept of “future time preference” denigrated as a form of “racism?” Excellent discussion on this topic may be found in two terrific, highly controversial books: Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City, and Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
Social Studies teachers teaching government or history also discover that it is “cultural racism” to engage in “emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collectivist ideology.” This incredible concept goes beyond promoting such ill-conceived yet fashionable orthodoxies as “cooperative learning” or “multiculturalism” as instructional strategies. It violates the very core of what our Western civilization has consisted. Collectivist ideologies, whether in the form of Communism, National Socialism, or Fascism, were responsible for the deaths of over 100 million persons in the last century by their brutal collectivist regimes (and that is excluding the tens of millions of soldiers and civilian non-combatants who tragically died in the First and Second World Wars).
We are engaged in a Cultural Civil War. There are forces who, in the name of Equity and identity politics, are seeking to destroy the very essence of what constitutes our nature as human beings and as Americans. It is said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Or is that “cultural racism?”
Can We Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again?: Marriage and Responsible Parenting | Manhattan Institute
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fi-middle-class-erosion-20151209-story.html
Middle-class families, pillar of the American dream, are no longer in the majority, study finds
(the major demographic trend outlined here has not reversed since this article was published)
https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2012-spring/individualism-collectivism/
Individualism vs. Collectivism: Our Future, Our Choice
https://mises.org/library/egalitarianism-revolt-against-nature-0
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, by Murray N. Rothbard
https://mises.org/library/egalitarianism-revolt-against-nature-and-other-essays/html/c/361
Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism, and the Division of Labor, by Murray N. Rothbard
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/toc.asp?issueID=90
Articles on Egalitarianism from the Independent Review, Summer 2017, Volume 22 Number 1
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