By One Nation NSW Leader Mark Latham
You may have heard of this concept in the media. Certainly it has become popular in universities and schools in recent years.
It is part of the Left-wing drive to embed âpost-modernismâ in our society: a belief that everything is fluid, that everything we know about ourselves, our identity, our gender, our history, even science, has been manipulated by the capitalist system to deceive us.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) argues that racism is embedded in all parts of Australian society, in every person and every institution. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply suffering from âunconscious biasâ â an inability to understand their own views and inherent bias against âpeople of colourâ.
Why has the Left popularised CRT now? The old Marxist view was that capitalism oppresses the workers to the point of revolution. But this fell over with the Soviet Union and fall of the Berlin Wall.
So the new theory is that capitalism oppresses citizens as social beings. And the only way of ridding society of racism, they argue, is to rid it of capitalism itself.
So CRT is just a replacement form of revolution theory, given that the last one (based on economics) failed.
In truth, CRT distracts from the real challenge in race relations: ending Aboriginal poverty in places that these theorists never visit of even know about. This is the point Jacinta Price consistently makes.
The first, overwhelming priority should be addressing Indigenous welfare dependency, family violence, drug and alcohol abuse and school truancy, especially in remote areas.
Australia is NOT a racist nation. A series of international surveys have shown Australia to be one of the most racially tolerant places on Earth. Plus, millions of migrants wanting to come here hardly see us as racist against them.
The tragedy for the Left is they had a valid, broadly agreed upon position on race that was accepted in society: the Martin Luther King ethos of looking through skin colour and focusing on a personâs character and innate worth. They have blown that way for the radical divisiveness of CRT, unsupported by evidence and public opinion.
The true purpose of CRT is revolutionary. Itâs a political propaganda exercise that must be driven out of classrooms before it poisons the minds of our young people.
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