Posted on Jun 11, 2021
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Its all over the news, Commanders are being relieved of their commands, social media attacks on service members is increasing --- what is going on?
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LOL...no. CRT has been a topic in academia for decades.
"Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that racism is a social construct, and that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.
The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, emerged out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and early 1980s created by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, among others.
A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants. Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.
Today, those same patterns of discrimination live on through facially race-blind policies, like single-family zoning that prevents the building of affordable housing in advantaged, majority-white neighborhoods and, thus, stymies racial desegregation efforts.
CRT also has ties to other intellectual currents, including the work of sociologists and literary theorists who studied links between political power, social organization, and language. And its ideas have since informed other fields, like the humanities, the social sciences, and teacher education.
This academic understanding of critical race theory differs from representation in recent popular books and, especially, from its portrayal by critics—often, though not exclusively, conservative Republicans. Critics charge that the theory leads to negative dynamics, such as a focus on group identity over universal, shared traits; divides people into “oppressed” and “oppressor” groups; and urges intolerance.
Thus, there is a good deal of confusion over what CRT means, as well as its relationship to other terms, like “anti-racism” and “social justice,” with which it is often conflated."
Stephen Sawchuck
"Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that racism is a social construct, and that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.
The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, emerged out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and early 1980s created by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, among others.
A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants. Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.
Today, those same patterns of discrimination live on through facially race-blind policies, like single-family zoning that prevents the building of affordable housing in advantaged, majority-white neighborhoods and, thus, stymies racial desegregation efforts.
CRT also has ties to other intellectual currents, including the work of sociologists and literary theorists who studied links between political power, social organization, and language. And its ideas have since informed other fields, like the humanities, the social sciences, and teacher education.
This academic understanding of critical race theory differs from representation in recent popular books and, especially, from its portrayal by critics—often, though not exclusively, conservative Republicans. Critics charge that the theory leads to negative dynamics, such as a focus on group identity over universal, shared traits; divides people into “oppressed” and “oppressor” groups; and urges intolerance.
Thus, there is a good deal of confusion over what CRT means, as well as its relationship to other terms, like “anti-racism” and “social justice,” with which it is often conflated."
Stephen Sawchuck
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SFC Michael Hasbun
The United States Army is not entirely a reflection of American society. It has discriminated over the years against a variety of American citizens that it has deemed unfit for service. The most obvious of these categories of unfit for service have included those who were not physically fit, were medically incapable (including a wide variety of incapacitating diseases, allergies, etc.), or those determined to be mental insufficient (both in terms of intelligence and mental illness.) In addition, the Army, guided by Congress and responding to various societal norms over time, have either prohibited or severely limited service by a wide variety of social and ethnic groups. African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, women and homosexuals have at various times been banned from service, allowed in only in small numbers, or allowed in only under special conditions. Yet in its centuries of existence, it can be said that gradually the Army has been more and more accommodating to a wider variety of divergent elements of society and it has become more reflective of the society it services. It has gone so far as to see diversity as a positive matter and greater diversity as a goal that should be encouraged. How the Army has wrestled with incorporating various diverse elements of American society in its ranks is thus a matter of continuing interest to the Army, its leadership, and the American people. Here are just a few of the products that the Center of Military History has produced over the years that highlight the challenges and obstacles faced by diverse elements of America that have, to greater or lesser success, been incorporated into the U.S. Army.
https://history.army.mil/html/faq/diversity.html
https://history.army.mil/html/faq/diversity.html
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LTC Marc King
SFC Michael Hasbun I certainly hope for the sake of the country that the Chinese and Russians abandon their current military orthodoxy and come to see things in a wile manner like you do … otherwise I believe that we will be crushed under their not so woke boot and won’t even know it happened. I think I hear the Finance Officer calling you so I will sign off now. I know you don’t want to miss paycall.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
LTC Marc King - I keep forgetting you served decades ago and don't know anything about the modern military. We don't have paycall. We have these fancy new things called bank accounts, and the money is deposited directly. Things are very different from when you used to line up for your little bags of gold.
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LTC Marc King
SFC Michael Hasbun I reserve this comment for a certain few… during my service I actually served … not hiding in the Ammo dump or the supply room … your sense of propriety and respect for those clearly senior to you sucks but I suspect that’s what you get from someone who handles bullets but may not know which end of the rifle it exits from. Part time Christmas help is always appreciated but often does not meet the standards for full time employment so I understand your fixation… as for the modern army I will take my experiences over yours any day if you are an example of how our senior NCO’s perceive how things are going in the modern woke Army. Im pretty sure that even at my advanced age I can our soldier you except in the ammo lift competition. I never take on an Ammo lift expert in their own arena…
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i don't believe it's an indoctrination Colonel. I think it is people taking an idea that started out correctly and warped it to their own warped ideas
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SrA John Monette
LTC Marc King - maybe we should all be sitting down together and hashing it out like adults. let's figure out if there is any truth to the theory. or is it just that, a theory?
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SFC Michael Hasbun
LTC Marc King - what military regulation or military school POI is being used to "deploy" CRT in the military. Can you provide us links?
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