How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by CaptainNegative on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:32AM (#36927823)

Animal Rescuers, e.g. https://bemagazine.org/direct-action-everywhere-trial-finall...

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