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MindMatters: Critical Race Theory's Race To The Bottom

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Adam Daniels, L.P. Koch
Sott.net
Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00 UTC

Critical Race Theory did not come ready-made out of a box. What we see and know today as CRT has, as its basis, several schools of pseudo-philosophical thought and areas of academic study - one built and twisted on another. But these influences and the progression of these ideas can, for all their wrongheadedness, be traced and seen for what they are. Today on MindMatters we delve further into the ideological roots, conceptual frameworks, contemporary movements and ultimate end game of CRT as described in James Lindsay's new book Race Marxism: The Truth about Critical Race Theory and Praxis.

Other sources:
Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology
Arthur Versluis's New Inquisitions

Running Time: 01:29:13

Download: MP3 — 123 MB

Adam Daniels

Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.

Harrison Koehli

Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's MindMatters, and is an editor for Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).

Elan Martin

Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.

Reader Comments

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-21T19:13:25Z

Why even talk about CRT anymore? I thought it was agreed that it is irrelevant. The race to the bottom has already been won. First one out gets the cookie - not it. Not I.

I wonder what your spirit animal is thinking just now......I know what mine is.....

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T15:37:07Z

Buffalo_Ken In my view, their intent is to flesh this out, so we could flush down the toilet. That is a joke somewhat.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-22T16:58:54Z

Dwoods44 - I need to watch this. I'm just tired of even thinking about "Critical Race Theory" - it is just plum stupid. Sill, after reading the comments, I realize I need to watch this and so I will.

Today is 52222 and it is 12:58 est

BK

danny esq · 2022-06-05T22:28:52Z

Buffalo_Ken [Link]

Its good for the chosen

Shangri · 2022-05-22T00:30:36Z

51-54 mins, and thereabouts.

Hegels life was spent during a period of transition, the factory/city system, industrial capitalism, surplus profit / exploitation, and the flow of goods, etc. It was all there, the seed was planted, all he needed to do, was join the dots

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T15:40:53Z

Shangri I agree. It is important to understand the context in which Hegel and Marx were writing. For example, at that time Charles DIckens' writings about the horrible child labor being used, and the Robber Barons of the late 19th early 20th centuries who industrialized America on the backs of engineered lower class people. If I remember correctly there is a History channel series on the Robber Barons (i.e. psychopaths).

Tsidkenu · 2022-05-22T05:56:01Z

An Ode to Australia's Love of Slavery

The time had drawn near,

The Aussies have voted.

Lockdowns abounded,

Two years of COVID.

Quarantine prisons,

For those who had travelled.

Vaccines or else;

That's how it unravelled.

Doctors lips silenced,

"No adverse reactions!"

AHRPRA's word reigns,

Or your licence cancelled.

Missing my workmates,

They all got "COVID."

But I'm the disease,

Cuz I'm unvaccinated.

Freedom paraded,

Bright yellow and orange,

Or just a charade,

A psych operation.

Red banner now flying,

teal-green at the trim.

Coal fires gunna quiet,

No gas on a whim.

Freedom aforetime,

dark skin and red sun,

Land done and stolen,

The flood then begun.

Civilisation a-building,

Dig holes and point guns.

Give half a chance,

Two bob heads up.

ANZAC graves emptied,

Their spirit's dried up.

Look all around you,

It's plain to your eyes.

A chance to vote taken,

Two houses as such.

One thing's for certain,

No longer denied.

Australians dear love

Their slavery too much.

© JP 2022.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-22T19:59:25Z

Tsidkenu - I appreciate this poetry.

Dwoods44 ·

Buffalo_Ken Me too.

· 2022-05-22T20:06:38Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-22T20:09:14Z

Dwoods44 - the funniest part was the "copyright" symbol at the end - that is really a wisp in the wind, but who is "JP" I wonder? Oh hells-bells, I know who that red haired muscular fellow is - now I understand. It was the poem of another.

Tsidkenu · 2022-05-23T01:27:16Z

Buffalo_Ken Nope! Two of my three initials. No relation to the legendary JP Sears.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-23T19:11:35Z

Tsidkenu - well, whoever wrote it has my appreciation. It could be sung slowly or rapid-fire and still be a good poem either way.

Ken

danny esq · 2022-05-22T12:45:50Z

But....

But.....

"Race is just a social contruct"....(their words not mine)...

Just never mention that only society must deal with this truck of HORSE SHEEEEEE.....

Animal and plant breeders would lose EVERYTHING on such advice. Typical Satanic cause behind race....

"Im not racist......I simply cannot leave the discussion of race alone because....it's my way of showing everyone.....I'm not racist"

Or....

"Im not a violent person (passes me a guys head dripping with blood)...I just have to spread this truth at all costs because I love people and need to have an outlet for my kindness"

Double-speak = CRT

Winternights3 · 2022-05-22T13:55:23Z

Seems Earth 🌎 has shrunk and cultural indifference is measured by political narratives that shapes wokeism to its liking.

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T16:12:13Z

This was an excellent discussion that flowed very well covering many areas intelligently. It reminds me of Plato's dialogs. Reason is used.

My approach over the last 8 years has been to understand and question the manipulation of people and consciousness, how it is done, and methods we can use to combat it. Reason is paramount, the discussion of ideas in a balanced way. Values and meaning are also paramount, the emotional/spiritual side of man. One other element is that the current civilization and peoples are in a process ascending or descending. The growth of technology/intellectual has outstripped the moral, spiritual and value world view, and this result predicted by Gurdjieff. Let's not forget Ertugrul and his moral compass.

How are we to understand CRT, sexual identity, technology, war, and climate change as connected and as the result of psychopaths in power? One view, is Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard". He was a major strategist of the globalist view. This view is that the world's nations, peoples, religions, economies, wars are moves on a chessboard. The globalist view themselves as gods and humanity as pawns. Is humanity important? Is human life or beliefs important? Harrison's summary at the end of the discussion accurately depicts what is being done. Psychopaths gain a perverted pleasure in the suffering and manipulation of others.

As Luc commented, there is the idea of "behavioral design", designing life to mold behavior. Advertising is one aspect of it, drink this beer and have a good sex life, use this toothpaste and have a "white" smile. Another aspect is credit buying and the house mortgage and the student loan, where repaying debt becomes the purpose of life, which never ends. Another is the current plandemic, wear a mask and be vaxxed and enjoy "freedom". Another is ideology and defining the context of that ideology that creates conflict.

The use of video and word phrases where someone else defines the meaning and context, is the current means of manipulating thought and emotions. The George Floyd video and the Christchurch videos are excellent examples of manipulative media that in my view were staged, which included people dying.

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T20:03:37Z

Dwoods44 Correction: It is Elan's summary at the end of the video.

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T16:41:54Z

Each of us is in a process of being and becoming more conscious. Each of us is trying to give meaning and make sense out of our lives and the world in which we live. Religion has been one source of meaning in the histories of our current civilizations. Spiritual belief in God, as separate from religion, has been another source of meaning.

Various causes or ideologies have been other sources of meaning, including women voting, civil rights, freedom, capitalism, workers rights, communism, etc. The psychopaths have used the plandemic, global warming, racism, terrorism, equity, sexual identity, to try and create other collective identity sources of meaning.

In my view, the historically known civilizations all indicate that the spiritual side of man is intrinsic to man; culture, art, literature and music arise from it. It is not the opiate of the people. Without this source of meaning, life becomes purposeless, meaningless. This is the intent of the psychopaths to eliminate higher meaning from life.

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T19:48:45Z

I think David Icke’s formulation of the method the globalists use, which is Hegelian dialectic, is the problem – reaction – solution. This may have been accidental at some point in history, but now it is the method. Create a problem – “pandemic” and “fear”. The Reaction – “masks”, “lockdowns”, “social distancing”, “closing small businesses”, “closing churches”, more and more “testing” by the incredible PCR test, “mail in voting” to “protect the people”. The Solution – “vaccine”, the “new better-than-ever mRNA genetic altering and nanotech enhanced cure” for the “deadly, invisible virus” and the great reset of society; i.e. a few billion less and totalitarian control.

I think the team and Lindsay pointed to the correct reaction, discontent with life. The squashing of human rights and livelihood by the Robber Barons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the problem. Discontent to the level where people rebel, means they have no where else to go. This reaction, leads people to riot and violence, and escalation of the reaction. The solution, communism which saves the worker and brings a better life with equity for all. From Ouspensky’s Letters from Russia during the Russian Revolution, he stated that this was all orchestrated by German influence and used criminal forces to implement.

I attended 2 classes with Herbert Marcuse at UCSD in 1967 and 1968. The first class was a general philosophy class and Marcuse used Hegel’s Reason in History in the second class. The context of that time demonstrates the discontent of teenagers and young adults: Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, Civil Rights demonstrations, protests, the Vietnam war and draft, Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Civil Rights Act.

Marcuse was the rock-star philosopher of the time and his key protege was Angela Davis. The introductory class was in an auditorium like class room holding 150-200 students and overflowing. As a teenager, with my own angst, this class gave a sense of connection and justice for the times. In other words, college age kids are impressionable affecting behavior. Marcuse himself was a Germanic forceful presence in teaching; he commanded respect. He gave his view only; there was no discussion of alternative views. .

In reviewing that time, it is interesting that Marcuse’s books focused on a blending of Freudian and Marxian teachings, such as Eros and Civilization. What do we have now? Sexual identity and CRT being taught in elementary and middle school. I would suggest that it is the sexual revolution beginning in the 60s that has led us to the current sexual identity engineering. People have “thrown off their Freudian sexual repression” and their “new chosen identity” must be respected over religion and family.

Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-22T19:57:07Z

Dwoods44 - that reads as a plausible theory to explain the times. At base level us humans have been hunter-gatherers for a long time genetically and so the mindset needed for survival then is not as apt as what is needed today. For example, in a small group of hunter-gatherers do you not think there is oral history of how things went so bad for another clan in the past when faith in leadership was lost? That sort of thinking resides deep in our brains is what I think, but the time has come for new ideas and we are just going to have to throw of the shackles and the chains so deep in our brains if we have any hope of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

~

In the Ice Ages, the last one especially, humanity came thread-bare (bear) away from extinction and that was only what 25000 years ago or so....so you got to figure, these potential extinction events are not that rare giving geological time runs long. So, the moment of truth, another moment out of so many to be in the future, has arrived, and humanity is going to have to dig deep to raise the level of consciousness. I think it starts local and really that makes sense. I hope it happens and goes down this way and then over time we can be more prepared when a real threat emerges versus just one in the minds of a few sick psychos been eating "baby flesh" one generation too many.

~

Peace,

Ken

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-22T20:17:15Z

Buffalo_Ken " the moment of truth, another moment out of so many to be in the future, has arrived, and humanity is going to have to dig deep to raise the level of consciousness." Yes.

David

parzival · 2022-05-26T06:03:46Z

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*

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Dwoods44 · 2022-05-28T14:37:23Z

parzival Thanks. I don't like that "experts" only are the source, but the editors look good.

parzival ·

Dwoods44

· 2022-05-29T10:18:43Z

Ned Ludd · 2022-05-26T16:12:32Z

This is a completely stupid exchange among those who know nothing, have read nothing about or of Marx, Marxism or Marxist political movements. CRT is utterly odious and all serious Marxists would be completely opposed to such a doctrine that contravenes their view of class struggle. This is a is a degenerate liberal business.

parzival ·

Ned Ludd

· 2022-05-27T05:42:02Z

danny esq · 2022-05-29T17:07:23Z

How do I know if I'm woke? Do you have to set an alarm or is "woke" a narrative deception on becoming "awake" or awakened (wokeness) and does Caffeine help to stay "woke" and how do I know if Im still dreaming (dreaming of being awakened but actually still asleep (non-woken ed up).

I stretched my arms and yawned but went back to sleep. Wakey Wakey!

smertzasmert · 2022-06-08T07:22:12Z

anyone casually familiar with Marx/Engels or modern Marxists---Streek, Habermas, Adorno, Althuser, Kojeve, Lenin, Plekanov, Sartre, Luxemburg, Zizek, Meszaros, Bloch, Lukas, Anderson, Gilly, etc is fully aware that Marxists oppose the stupidity of identiarian conceptions that CRT apparently inculcates.

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Psstoffgoy

The rot is DEEP. Once America lost interest in meritocracy it was finished. [Link]

Spur

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Dwoods44

+1 Somebody needs to shoot down those weather satellites...Florida is always warm and sunny.

Dwoods44

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Dwoods44

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