I’m still working on how to write a persuasive essay to open minds that would otherwise be closed.
So you get a Charlie clip.
I’m still working on how to write a persuasive essay to open minds that would otherwise be closed.
So you get a Charlie clip.
“I’m still working on how to write a persuasive essay to open minds that would otherwise be closed.”
.
It is impossible to open a mind to new ideas if that mind does not want to accept new ideas. No amount of persuasion will make that happen.
.
There are plenty of Charlie Kirk videos where the person at the open mic just declared Charlie was wrong, and they walked away. That is, unfortunately, the default setting for most people.
I want to be able to communicate well enough that those who are “on the fence” (who I personally believe to be the majority) are willing to open their minds more than just the crack.
Exactly what I was trying to say.
Those in the fence have already opened themselves up to the idea of other points of view.
One thing Charlie could have said to that “scholarship student” is to remove “race” from “Critical Race Theory”. You’re left with “Critical Theory”, which is the larger set of problems Leftists are fixated upon. There’s also “Critical Gender Theory” and “Critical Economic Theory” and others, but “Critical Race Theory” gets the most press.
.
Charlie’s list of five beliefs could apply to all of them. Take Critical Economic Theory, for example:
1. Economic inequality is ordinary and everywhere
2. Interest convergence (intersectionality)
3. Economic inequality as a social construct (i.e. class or caste)
4. Storytelling and counter-storytelling
5. Economic inequality cannot be removed from society
.
Note that #2 and #4 had nothing to do with race, and so make both lists unchanged. With the other three, it’s not difficult to rewrite the list to instead be about sex, gender, religion, culture, or national origin.
.
Critical Race Theory gets talked about a lot — and I mean, a LOT — but it’s a small subset of a larger Critical Theory, and it’s all the same mindset: one of helpless victims vs. powerful oppressors, and seeing all inequality as oppression even when it’s not.
.
I think pointing out that CRT is just a subset of Critical Theory would have made a powerful point. Maybe even powerful enough that that “scholarship student” might remember it.
I have often said the operative word in CRT is ‘critical.’
As in criticize/critique.
.
Marx was a proponent of it, if I understand correctly. There would be no way for his socialist paradise to come into being unless he could convince people capitalism/free markets are bad. So… critical theory, which focuses solely on the negatives, and refuses to acknowledge any positives.