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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by civilized on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:27PM (#36927190)
Neither critical theory nor capitalism are revolutionary. They each have large bastions where you will be at best low status, at worst cast out, for criticizing them.

Also, the idea that revolution is inherently good has been a dead cliché since the IT industry got hold of it.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by mitt_romney_12 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:31PM (#36927221)
Under this interpretation nothing can ever be revolutionary. There is absolutely and ideology that is dominant in society at large and trying to say that the ideology that runs 95% of world powers and one that opposes it are equally "revolutionary" is counterfactual.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by civilized on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:54PM (#36927357)
You can be revolutionary by seeking big change at personal risk because you're not socially dominant (or militarily in other contexts). There have been times this happened. Who is doing that today?
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by defrost on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:57PM (#36927369)
Indigenous people resisting copper mines, gas pipelines, lithium mines, etc that are being proposed on territories they've been pushed back onto.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by civilized on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:02PM (#36927386)
I doubt critical theorists do them any good.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by defrost on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:11PM (#36927441)
Oddly enough the OG Critical Race Theory that originated in law schools about the globe decades ago addresses systemic inequality issues fairly directly.

This seems to have been forgotten since Tucker Calson et al started redefining woke | CRT to mean whatever they currently hated to avoid addressing policy.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by lo_zamoyski on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:39PM (#36927589)
"Countering disinformation about Critical Race Theory" (2022)

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2022/08/countering-disinfor...

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by defrost on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:07AM (#36928014)
Your material:

    As readers of my book *All One in Christ* will find, the content of CRT is even more disturbing than this brief summary indicates – and it is also riddled with blatant logical fallacies, crude social scientific errors, and assumptions and policy recommendations that are utterly contrary to the natural moral law and the Catholic faith. 
appears to be a lengthy pro catholic | anti CRT self promoting strawman.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by wolverine876 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:40PM (#36934512)
Based on what? If it's your dislike of critical theory, that's merely circular.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by astrange on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:56AM (#36927948)
Is running a casino more moral than a copper mine?
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by defrost on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:02AM (#36927982)
There's a clear distinction between

* people choosing to build a casino on a specific portion of their land that they choose to build upon, and

* people having no say over third parties excavating a giant hole beneath a large area of their land at a particular location they believe has deep religous meaning | spititual connection.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by indigo945 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:31AM (#36929431)
Stealing people's land to build a casino is no more or less moral than doing the same to build a copper mine.

However, only one of these is actually going on.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by mitt_romney_12 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:04PM (#36927398)
> Who is doing that today?

So many people. Look no further than the activists who are continuing to protest against Cop City in Atlanta despite the fact that the cops have already murdered one person [1] and arrested many more on trumped up charges [2].

[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/04/20/atlanta-cop-city-protest... [2] https://theintercept.com/2023/06/21/cop-city-georgia-attorne...

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by CaptainNegative on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:32AM (#36927823)
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by calf on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:42PM (#36927606)
Where is this bastion of critical theory which I would like to visit?

I've spent years in academia, admittedly in STEM but I saw little actual explicit critical theory. I was all alone discovering and reading post-Marxist texts, with no group to discuss it with.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by LudwigNagasena on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:38AM (#36927856)
You had no cultural studies departments? No people who do cultural analysis in the literature department? No one in the sociology department who works in the tradition of the conflict theory? No one in the geography department who does critical geography? No one in the anthropological departments who does critical anthropology? In the US? In the 21st century? Weird. Which university is that?
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by civilized on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:25AM (#36930049)
Yeah, I think a lot of us looking at this must be wondering how we can be part of this university.

Even famously conservative universities like U. Chicago have plenty of this stuff going on.

Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by sangnoir on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:39AM (#36932350)
Gee, I wonder why.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by sangnoir on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:42PM (#36934538)
Could it be that the CRT is not inherently anti- (or even non-) conservative? Perhaps the term has been hijacked by conservative culture-warriors as a wedge issue for identity politics in a way that conservative academics disagree wirh? I'm just asking questions here.
Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by calf on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:57AM (#36932569)
I'm sure we did but basically you're showing there is no critical theory bastion, they are a diffuse minority compared to most actual departments.

And that tracks with my personal campus experiences, as well as the historical account of critical theory itself.