ICYMI: Why Critical Race Theory as used by the right (and its allies) is a bogeyman.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-as-a-bogeyman?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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I'm skeptical that psychoanalysis can help with much of anything, let alone dismantling whiteness!
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Fair enough. But the issue is views of the kind expressed in Wood's essay have gained enormous legitimacy in mainstream educational & professional institutions, above all education & medicine. That's why w/respect I don't see how you can dismiss it all as baseless MAGA/Fox panic
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I feel like the fact that this stuff is so strongly aligned to therapeutic culture & also corporate public relations is a sign of its ineffectuality & tendency to reinforce the status quo, rather than it being a radical threat.
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I actually agree with you in part in that I wholly concur that Kendo-style CRT & university HR dept-style Woke is aligned w/the therapeutic culture. Indeed, that's what my next book is about. But that doesn't make it ineffectual in any way shape or form, or less dangerous.
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What specifically is the danger? Race violence? Ethnic cleansing? Few public intellectuals willing to say that, but it’s their basic fear about it I think. And it’s right I think, so should say it more.
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Obviously, I can't speak for anyone but myself here, but I don't see Woke or Kendi-style popularized CRT as posing that sort of existential threat. Where I think it poses an existential threat is in high culture because it sees art as about representation, not transcendence.
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That is a major problem. Totally agreement on that, although I'd add that its part of a larger move of our relationship to culture where culture is seen as consumption & nothing more.
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Yes, I agree, & any analysis that has a hope of getting what's happening right must never lose sight of your last point. I expect that's why, though my deep pessimism precludes me from being on the Left, the attacks on Woke & CRT that resonate w/me largely come from Marxists.
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