Re: Sad to read this
Okay. In science, a theory is something that looks true but which may not be provable 100% of the time. That is the difference between a theory and a law.
In social science, a theory is a body of thought supported by evidence. There is no need to prove it absolutely. This is why there is so-called gender theory, feminist theory, anti-oppressive theory, systems theory, etc. It basically approaches an issue, or more than one issue, from a particular point of view.
Critical race theory suggests that some of the cause of systemic racism - which still exists, I think we can all agree with that - is down to things like unintentional racism and white privilege. Letting folks off the hook from that means they don't have to think nearly so critically about the racial impact of their actions.
I'll give a really simple but illustrative example.
An educator made a rule that their students over Zoom had to wear shoes while attending online class, even if they were in their own homes. Now, for many of us, this might be mildly annoying, but is ultimately no big deal. However, there are cultural taboos against wearing shoes in a household, which were not even considered when this rule was made. Now obviously, these educators aren't raginc racists with no shred of morality for doing this, but ignorance is clearly in evidence here. Why, exactly, do students have to wear shoes while on Zoom in the first place, particularly in their own home? Why is there a need to put that standard forward in the first place? As such, it's needless, and it shuts out the experience of other people, mostly non-whites.
And little things like this happen every day, all over the world. And it's usually (not always, but usually) whites doing it to non-whites.
Again, it doesn't make these people awful or horrendous. It doesn't mean they're bad people. At worst, it just means that they take their own cultural norms so much for granted that they do not consider the perspectives of others.
Taking critical race theory-based training out of the federal government is irresponsible because it simply takes this part of the analysis off the table. And as I said before, it can't be framed as a savings to taxpayers because Trump has lost billions alone in his own pursuits, and has already spent millions of taxpayer dollars playing golf. Funnily enough, it's one of the things folks criticized Obama for, but Trump has done it far more, and at far greater expense.
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