Criticizing CRT With Ignorance

CRITICAL RACE THEORY, in a nutshell, is a "body of scholarship that addresses America's brutal racial history, recognizes the parts of that history that remain unchanged, and works towards changing the rest"... This cogent, accurate, and accessible definition is supplied by Victor Ray in his seminal monograph "On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters And Why You Should Care". Anyone who refuses to acknowledge this definition is either a conservative and therefore beyond logical persuasion, culturally illiterate and therefore incapable of comprehending it, or both. The two go together in most instances. This brings to mind the question: "Why on God's green Earth do the conservatives so detest, despise, and fear critical race theory, so much so that they ban it in conservative states as if it were a deadly virus, or a Chinese weather balloon? The answer is transparently obvious, and lies deeply embedded within the philosophy of conservatism itself, even though it is in plain view. While liberalism embraces change and progress, is comptuous of present societal conditions but hopeful for a better future, conservatism embraces the status quo, and regards change with suspicion and distrust. Extreme conservatism is reactionary; that is, it seeks to return society to an alleged better time from days gone by, to restore society to what conservatives fallaciously believe was a better, idyllic, romanticized pastthe only curse of the present being impluse it for the better, progressively. Thus, America's past is white washed of all evil, and the American history becomes a litany of past progress and virtue by inherently virtuous Americans, and society has reached a satisfactory state which requires no further change. Conservatives despise critical race theory and wish to eliminate it from academic curriculi because they fervantly believe that racism, individual and systemic, has been eliminated from American society and culture to a desirable degree, and requires no further effort. Conservatives wish to beleive that we now live in a racially just and equal society because of the sustained hard work and virtue of our white ancestors. In short, conservatives prefer to pretend that racism, both personal and systemic, do not exist, no longer exist, because so believing they escape the burden of acknowledgement of the need for fundamental, continued change, change which is antithetical to their ideology. Past progress led to the elimination of any necssity for continued change in the present and in the future, conservatives believe. Veneration of an idealized, mythological past, coupled with an insistent refusal to acknowledge and address the societal problems of the present, leads to nonsensical, inane public policy proposals, proposals which deny demonstrable reality, like banning Critical Race Theory from public education.