[jjkeddo199]

Campus activism has been tainted by Marxism. "Critical [race|gender|disability] Theory" is just standard Marxism applied in the social science context. Since Marxism pre-requisitely requires framing everything in the world into a "oppressed vs oppressor, have vs have-not, good vs evil" binary, you will become a target for hostility/harm if you are perceived as somehow privileged.

If isolating/targeting people based on on race/gender/ability bothers you, you should stand up against "Critical (Marxist) Theory" infiltration of activist circles in the social sciences. Activism should be about empowering the needy, not harming the need-nots.

[drawkward]

>Critical Race Theory axiomatically requires white people to be written off as evil and the enemy.

For the sake of argument, lets grant your point about the Marxist framing oppressor vs oppressed stuff.

Cannot the system itself be the oppressor, instead of "white people"?

[tristor]

> Cannot the system itself be the oppressor, instead of "white people"?

Sure, and that begs the question "who created the system?", "who does the system benefit?", "why is the system structured this way?". All of which are /good/ questions to ask, that critical theory advocates are all too willing to provide easy non-nuanced answers to, answers that boil down to "white people". Unfortunately, it turns out that anti-racism (at least as currently implemented/advocated in the majority of colleges and universities) is just racism with a different label.

[drawkward]

>All of which are /good/ questions to ask, that critical theory advocates are all too willing to provide easy non-nuanced answers to, answers that boil down to "white people".

Then the problem is the the advocates and not CRT, no?

>Unfortunately, it turns out that anti-racism (at least as currently implemented/advocated in the majority of colleges and universities) is just racism with a different label.

Speaking of answers without nuance...

[jjkeddo199]

I apologize for editing my comment to remove that context in trying to create clarity about my point. I had actually meant to reply to a different (similar) thread. I will reply to your point while acknowledging I edited my original point hoping nobody replied yet.

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Sure. There could be a racist judge, corrupt cop, or absurd law oppressing people in any government system ever. But that does not meet the bar required justify totally "tearing society down and rebuilding everything from scratch" as a Marxist might suggest.

There is no evidence that any alternative system would be better. There is much evidence that alternative systems end up worse. Why not fix problems where you find them instead of throwing the baby away with the bathwater?

[drawkward]

>Sure. There could be a racist judge, corrupt cop, or absurd law oppressing people in any government system ever.

That is not systemic racism. That is a racist in a system. Systemic racism is, for example, redlining.

[bitwize]

> There is no evidence that any alternative system would be better.

Bull roar. The Haudenosaunee had a collectivist, shared-ownership, woman-led society that thrived for hundreds of years if not longer, and became something of an empire in what is now the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

This is what inspired Engels to consider collectivist approaches to society building as an alternative approach to the intrinsic oppression of capitalism.

[themaninthedark]

My reading of wiki does not match your "collectivist, shared-ownership, woman-led society" claim.

I read that they had a matrilineal kinship system that treated women as equal, not women led.

As for the collectivist, shared-ownership: Then they destroyed other Iroquoian-language tribes, including the Erie, to the west, in 1654, over competition for the fur trade.

No other Indigenous nation or confederacy had ever reached so far, conducted such an ambitious foreign policy, or commanded such fear and respect. The Five Nations blended diplomacy, intimidation, and violence as the circumstances dictated, creating a measured instability that only they could navigate. Their guiding principle was to avoid becoming attached to any single colony, which would restrict their options and risk exposure to external manipulation."

[bitwize]

The discredited right-wing conspiracy theory is that Jewish scholars worked to substitute "people of color" and "white people" for "the proletariat" and "the bourgeoisie" in Marxist theory in order to make it more modern and appealing in postwar America, so as to destroy America and... pave the way for Jewish world rule, I guess.