[JasonCannon]

Critical Race Theory isn't about blaming white people. It's about acknowledging that racial discrimination is deeply inherent in our laws and society. And yes, it's largely a result of advocacy by and for White people. But CRT isn't about making white people feel bad. It's about drawing attention to the issue. If having the reality of these issues makes you feel judged and put on trial, maybe that says something about how you view the world. It's called cognitive dissonance.

[dragonwriter]

> Critical Race Theory isn't about blaming white people

Its fairly specifically about how systems (whether due to racist motivations in the past or not) can exist that produce race-biased results without active racism of current participants who perpetuate them, of any race.

While specific applications of its analytical framework to concrete conditions may identify contributions of active racism, past or present, CRT as a whole is a framework that divides individual racism as an active moral failing from societal processes that produce race-biased results and perpetuate pre-existing racial disadvantage.

The people criticizing it as “blaming White people” are actually afraid of the opposite, that it liberates White people to acknowledge structural racism without that requiring them to see themselves as active racists. As the critics very much do not want racist processes to be acknowledged and addressed (sometimes, because they are conscious, active racists, but sometimes just because their identity is tied up in the status quo being seen as free of racism or some other reason), they fear other people being made more free to acknowledge racist processes.

[JasonCannon]

> but sometimes just because their identity is tied up in the status quo being seen as free of racism or some other reason)

As evidenced by the poster above quoting MLK as if MLK would be opposed to CRT. Also interestingly, the post on the front page the other day discussing that MIT lecturer who argued that everything in college should be based of merit and fairness instead of taking into account race and discrimination and minority status. Like you said, nothing about that is strictly racist, but it does result in race biased results. Namely that white and often east asian families are more likely to have their children be setup in early childhood to be on a path to ivy league (prep schools, private tutors, etc) than black, latino, and indigenous families. Just boiling it down to merit, or who "deserves" to be there completely ignores the circumstances and challenges faced by minorities and disadvantaged people to get to where they were at.