I’ve no shortage of words for the topic. Those inclined towards power and its abuse have a template. It excused human slavery. It justified ethnic cleansing. And Critical Race Theory is just the latest exercise of this reach for power. Dehumanize someone to justify intimidation or abuse.
I said it here, but it needs repeating in the face of the injection of this Critical Race Theory poison into the culture and the public school system.
The reasoning used to marginalized personhood to excuse past oppression is on full display today, not-unsurprisingly, from the same class of political persons. Those disposed to a larger, more intrusive government. The political left.
The unborn are not people; therefore, we can extinguish them at a whim.
Ideas or words to which the Left objects do not deserve the same protections as their words or ideas, so they can and should be silenced.
Religious expressions and matters of conscience can be oppressed when they do not fit the approved template.
Public assemblies and associations that do not advance approved policies can be suppressed.
Keepers of such ideas or speakers of such words are labeled by the Left as monsters to devalue their potential for influence. Their oppression by sanctioned mobs (and inevitably exercises of state power should they get the opportunity to exercise it) are necessary forms of oppression.
Put another way, because some folks don’t talk or speak or act a certain way, they are not really people. It’s okay to treat them badly.
The Nazis did this to Jews; Slavers have done it since the dawn of time and continue to do so today. Prostitution and sex trafficking dehumanize women and children. In many Islamic cultures, women are property to be mistreated or discarded. Oppression always follows a program of dehumanization.
Related: Critical Race Theory Advocates Tell Supporters to Silence Opponents
Critical Race Theory not only dehumanizes people as racists and beneath contempt, nothing they do can cleanse them of these sins in the eyes of the accusers.
In a culture where neither redemption nor forgiveness exists, humanity is impossible. Justice, as we understand it, is replaced by social justice. Not the ethereal well-meaning kind they lie about on Campus, where we pretend this is about equality. Thiers is a vigilante street-justice, encouraged by the State (see Antifa and BLM).
A “justice” that will come for you if you are black or brown and say the wrong things.
The only voices they permit are the ones repeating what they want to hear. This, like its predecessors, is a political program that silences dissent and compels speech to secure power, regardless of demographics.
What follows was discussed here yesterday. Oligarchic, socialist corporatism. A State of governance with “no historical comparisons that did not take, abuse, or kill “political prisoners.”
CRT makes it not only acceptable to dehumanize a large majority of the population, but those that refuse to play along are open to whatever abuse is deemed necessary to quell any resistance, sanctioned by law or proxy outlaw.
Add COVID and “passports” and tracking, and the Left has the excuse it needs to behave like their ideological forefathers. Dehumanize someone to justify political intimidation or abuse, defined and enforced by them.
Critical Race Theory is a Marxist dream, and a poison within the body of our nation.
It cannot be allowed to run its course.
