A Cast System?

For John, BLUF:  Here is a take on the topic of Critical Race Theory, which sees it as a way of binning people and creating a hierarchy, a caste system.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Do You Want a Caste System in America? Keep Pushing Critical Theories and We'll Have It in No Time.

From PJ Media, by Ms Stacey Lennox, 3 May 2021, 4:23 PM ET.

Here is the lede plus two:

The debate about curriculum based on critical theories is getting a lot of hype for how it impacts the teaching of history and civics. Critical theories can absolutely infect those two subjects, but this ideology is far more pernicious than that. There are curricula for math, science, and English that use the underlying thesis of critical theories that are every bit as damaging as teaching a warped version of history that claims America is built on the original sin of slavery.

Critical theories divide society into groups based on their immutable characteristics. Then, it assigns personality characteristics, motives, and societal roles to children based simply on how they were born. This strategy divides children by race, sex, immigration status, disability, and other characteristics they have no control over. It then assigns roles, such as oppressed and oppressor, based on those characteristics. Marxists learned long ago that dividing people by class was challenging. A content middle class was always a barrier to their progress. Dividing people based on immutable characteristics was more straightforward, and creating a coalition of the oppressed groups became the means to gain power, beginning in earnest in the 1980s.

Critical theories are pernicious because they remove agency and free will from one segregated group and blame the other for any disparity in outcomes between groups. It encourages blame and victimhood based on how children were born. The philosophy calls for outright discrimination against groups seen to be “privileged” historically. Generally, these children are white, male, and sometimes Asian. It follows in lockstep with the philosophy articulated by one of the high priests of critical theories, Ibram X. Kendi. “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”

For me the lead into the second paragraph is important to understanding the wider impact on society.  I have modified the first two sentences slightly:

Progressives divide society into groups based on their immutable characteristics.  Then, they assign personality characteristics, motives, and societal roles to voters based simply on how they were born.

We are looking at a form of a political caste system in the United States, with implications for voting, at the local, state and national levels.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff