alt Hacker NewsHave you done any research into it? Or, because it makes you uncomfortable, you just write it off as a religion and ignore it?
A lot of people work backwards. They don't like the conclusions drawn by CRT and social studies so they work backwards and conclude that it's based on things that aren't real. But these areas of studies work forwards. Meaning, they identify obvious, real, and undeniable racial systems, such as redlining, and then study the long-term effects of that.
If you think something like, say, preventing black Americans from owning property, has no long-term effects on the demographic then you've probably just never thought about it. This isn't a TV show, this isn't a picture perfect depiction of a country. Our institutions are old, and things don't just - poof - get fixed. Integration was messy, and it took decades. Reconstruction wasn't linear, it progressed and then regressed. Segregation never disappeared - to this day, most cities are segregated. To just conclude "well that doesn't matter", based on zero research or understanding, is intellectually lazy.
Of course, if you do start to do research into it, congratulations, you have re-discovered the discipline of CRT. Because that's all it is. So, you have no choice but to stay ignorant, because otherwise you threaten your entire belief system. And we can't have that, can we?
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Nothing I say could ever convince you otherwise because it is your deeply held belief and system of faith. It provides you a community of others that share your beliefs and practices as well as opportunities for religious experiences.
Just don't proselytize, the rest of us find it as annoying as the jehovash witnesses.
I think there might be a bit of crosstalk here. For background I largely agree with you. There was a powerful clip during the George Floyd protests where a woman passionately explained that it was a game of Monopoly where, when blacks actually did get money, whites burned Tulsa to the ground.
With that out of the way, let me go back to this:
> If you show up to the interview and you're white, congratulations, you're 50% of the way there.
This is where we have the difference of "base rate" vs "lived experience". My example is gender as opposed to race but it generalizes: I have an expensive and difficult hobby that is largely male-dominated. As such there are various scholarships and mentor groups for women. As I open my pockets and overcome challenges, seeing these posters around telling me that if I were a woman, I would have money and mentorship laid at my feet, it is not difficult for me to see why the rhetoric of privilege doesn't land easily.
Going back to race, at my employer there are various employee groups for LGBTQ, Connected Black Professionals, Asian Heritage, and so on. How privileged does a regular white guy without any particular connections feel? (Assume he then goes home and tries to help his high-achieving white teenage son strategize on college applications)
To reiterate, I am not disagreeing with the underlying "stacked deck", but I also don't blame those for whom it doesn't land, because at the very least: the marketing sucks
See also: the blue-collar worker who barely graduated high school and worked in a factory before we shipped it off to China, without which the community has become poor and run-down and ravaged by drug addiction. How privileged do you think he feels? (Is it any wonder he voted for who he did?)