ironpony wrote:
That makes sense but if a small portion of them are racist, why is she making the trucker protest about racist entitlement, when it's really about ending a mandate?
Because it has nothing to do with actual racism or ending a mandate. You can do one or two things—either go back and read everything I said on CRT, or skip ahead to the tl;dr version right here.
If you take the R out of CRT, what you have is plain old fashioned Critical Theory, which is basically a way of understanding the world through the lens of deconstructing power structures. The question is asked “Why did socialism/communism fail?” The answer is that by eliminating one power structure, a new one was created. The hegemony is essentially the same people the proletariat revolted against. When you add the R back to CT, then it becomes specifically about white people retaining power structures. Instead of socialism—equality, common ownership of the means of production—you get communism and fascism that perpetuate corrupt power structures. CRT makes this more specific by explaining hegemony as being white with the resulting power structures as inherently, systemically corrupt and racist.
To break this down into it’s most basic, simplistic form:
1. All white people are racist and constitute the dominant culture (hegemony) everywhere they live.
2. Truckers protesting mandates are predominantly white
3. Therefore, truckers’ mandate protests are the result of systemic racism with the intention to oppress American and Canadian minorities,
Very insightful points. It's good to have someone politically versed for something like this. I wish I could see a discussion between Angel and ironponys gf.