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by AnHonestComment 1934 days ago
> Proportional enrollment based on race?

Yes.

“Antiracist” doesn’t mean “not racist”; it’s a Marxist ideology focusing on racial identities and purposeful systemic racism to “balance” the power between racial tribes.

It’s extremely racist.

Anti-Asian racism will become normalized as long as “antiracism” is part of the Democratic agenda. They’re literally fighting to overturn civil rights laws in CA and WA so the government can discriminate based on race again.

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> “Antiracist” doesn’t mean “not racist”; it’s a Marxist ideology focusing on racial identities and purposeful systemic racism to “balance” the power between racial tribes.

Why do you say this is "Marxist ideology"? What makes it Marxist, precisely?

“Antiracism” is another name for “critical race theory” which inherits from the general Marxist body of philosophy, of which “critical blah theory” tends to be a common name. Like “people’s republic” — it’s a fashion thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

But what is Marxist about its philosophy? What particular beliefs make it Marxist?
In sociology and political philosophy, "Critical Theory" means the Western-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, developed in Germany in the 1930s and drawing on the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. Though a "critical theory" or a "critical social theory" may have similar elements of thought, capitalizing Critical Theory as if it were a proper noun stresses the intellectual lineage specific to the Frankfurt School.
> “Antiracist” doesn’t mean “not racist”;

This is true, antiracism is active in the presence of racism, “not racist” may or may not be.

> it’s a Marxist ideology

No, it's not. I suppose if you met “Marxist” metaphorically in that, like Marxism, it posits the existence of a status quo struggle, and calls for consciousness of that struggle and activity within it rather than indifference to it or denial of it, it would be accurate, but that's kind of a weak basis for such an emotionally-loaded metaphor.

> purposeful systemic racism to “balance” the power between racial tribes.

Antiracism does not call for “purposeful systemic racism” for any purpose.

>They’re literally fighting to overturn civil rights laws in CA and WA so the government can discriminate based on race again.

Source? From a reputable location, the only ones I'm finding are sites with headlines like:

    “If I wanted America to fail”
    Capitalism Explained
    George Soros
    Honest News
    How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
    Joe Biden in Five Minutes
    Lara Logan’s Warning to America
    Make Mine Freedom
    Obama Admin Caught Sending Guns to Drug Cartels
    Rules for Radicals
    SCOTUS: Government Can Force You to Buy Anything
    The Iron Lady
    The Socialist’s Camoflage
    Trump Admin Accomplishments
    Vote Fraud
    What is a Constitutional Moderate?
and even Breitbart says

    Prop 209 prevents race-based affirmative action in state contracts, government jobs, and university admissions
That second link has a spare "d" after "publications" that broke it, by the way.

Thanks for the links