The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind

[seanD]

The powerful/wealthy force behind it is Fox News. It's in their best interest to keep conservatives frightened of imaginary threats. As long as people uncritically consume Republican propaganda, there will be activists and academics that take extreme stances out of frustration.

So your conspiracy is that Fox News is the force funding white self-hate ideology and CRT insanity that produces university professor racist kooks like Aruna Khilanani? That's your belief?

[Psychic Missile]

So your conspiracy is that Fox News is the force funding white self-hate ideology and CRT insanity that produces university professor racist kooks like Aruna Khilanani? That's your belief?

The idea that "white self-hate ideology" and CRT are in any way a threat to anything or anyone is a fantasy perpetuated by Fox News. There is a very, very, very small minority of people who are prone to extremist/dramatic opinions who will inevitably comment on people believing this and like fantasies. This isn't a conspiracy, it's Fox News' explicit goal and human nature respectively.

[seanD]

The idea that "white self-hate ideology" and CRT are in any way a threat to anything or anyone is a fantasy perpetuated by Fox News. There is a very, very, very small minority of people who are prone to extremist/dramatic opinions who will inevitably comment on people believing this and like fantasies. This isn't a conspiracy, it's Fox News' explicit goal and human nature respectively.

Nah, violent rioting for most of the year in 2020 (and still occurring in smaller pockets now) is no threat to anyone. A university professor, who teaches kids, espousing fantasies of committing racial murder is no threat to anyone. That's RIGHTWING FOX NEWS PROPAGANDA! It's perfectly normal. It's just what we need for a nonviolent, non racially divisive civil society. We need MORE Ivy League professors like her teaching students.

[Psychic Missile]

Nah, violent rioting for most of the year in 2020 (and still occurring in smaller pockets now) is no threat to anyone. A university professor, who teaches kids, espousing fantasies of committing racial murder is no threat to anyone. That's RIGHTWING FOX NEWS PROPAGANDA! It's perfectly normal. It's just what we need for a nonviolent, non racially divisive civil society. We need MORE Ivy League professors like her teaching students.

It is propaganda. It's propaganda that a few isolated and temporary riots are a greater threat to the average American than militarized police. It's propaganda that college professors are capable of indoctrinating students so you should keep your children in a bubble of conservative ideology lest they experience alternate viewpoints. A nonviolent society cannot exist with a militarized police. A non racially divisive society cannot exist without multicultural exposure. Divisiveness and danger fuel sensationalist media and it gets people into voting booths. It's absolutely necessary to Fox News' business model to make mountains out of molehills and to shield it's viewers from the path to true progress.

[seanD]

It is propaganda. It's propaganda that a few isolated and temporary riots are a greater threat to the average American than militarized police. It's propaganda that college professors are capable of indoctrinating students so you should keep your children in a bubble of conservative ideology lest they experience alternate viewpoints. A nonviolent society cannot exist with a militarized police. A non racially divisive society cannot exist without multicultural exposure. Divisiveness and danger fuel sensationalist media and it gets people into voting booths. It's absolutely necessary to Fox News' business model to make mountains out of molehills and to shield it's viewers from the path to true progress.

A year of rioting is "mountains out of a molehill." Man, like clockwork...

The only argument a person on the left has is to just downplay it like it's not really happening or not that bad... but it is.

The problem of militarized police and the idea cops are racists, killing minorities at will just because they're racists and thus need to be defunded or abolished are two different issues. The former is a legit problem that may be a threat to every race, not just minorities, and I'm fully on board police reform (which requires MORE spending, not less). The latter is pure ideological fantasy based on a series of lies with the intent to create racial animosity and divisiveness, and produces Ivy League leftist psychos.

[Psychic Missile]

A year of rioting is "mountains out of a molehill." Man, like clockwork...

If the modus operandi of a propaganda outlet is to blow things out of proportion, of course those not under its sway will appear to downplay things.

The problem of militarized police and the idea cops are racists, killing minorities at will just because they're racists and thus need to be defunded or abolished are two different issues. The former is a legit problem that may be a threat to every race, not just minorities, and I'm fully on board police reform (which requires MORE spending, not less). The latter is pure ideological fantasy based on a series of lies with the intent to create racial animosity and divisiveness, and produces Ivy League leftist psychos.

It's ideological fantasy because you've reduced it to hyperbole. You're the one creating racial animosity and divisiveness by re-framing a societal issue from system reform to a culture war between conservatives (effectively whites) and liberals (effectively POC). What's stopping you from making a good-faith effort to understand the liberal position? Conservative media certainly doesn't want you to. It wants you to hate crazy people trying to destroy your way of life. It wants you to be fearful of a rioting mob at your doorstep

[seanD]

If the modus operandi of a propaganda outlet is to blow things out of proportion, of course those not under its sway will appear to downplay things.



It's ideological fantasy because you've reduced it to hyperbole. You're the one creating racial animosity and divisiveness by re-framing a societal issue from system reform to a culture war between conservatives (effectively whites) and liberals (effectively POC). What's stopping you from making a good-faith effort to understand the liberal position? Conservative media certainly doesn't want you to. It wants you to hate crazy people trying to destroy your way of life. It wants you to be fearful of a rioting mob at your doorstep

I do understand it. I understand it quite well.

You keep making reference to "conservative media," namely Fox News. My guess is you probably watch it more than all the conservatives in here combined.

[Sparko]

The powerful/wealthy force behind it is Fox News. It's in their best interest to keep conservatives frightened of imaginary threats. As long as people uncritically consume Republican propaganda, there will be activists and academics that take extreme stances out of frustration.

Fox news is teaching that 'racism is systemic and all whites are racist' in schools?

[Sparko]

It is propaganda. It's propaganda that a few isolated and temporary riots are a greater threat to the average American than militarized police. It's propaganda that college professors are capable of indoctrinating students so you should keep your children in a bubble of conservative ideology lest they experience alternate viewpoints. A nonviolent society cannot exist with a militarized police. A non racially divisive society cannot exist without multicultural exposure. Divisiveness and danger fuel sensationalist media and it gets people into voting booths. It's absolutely necessary to Fox News' business model to make mountains out of molehills and to shield it's viewers from the path to true progress.

Either you are trying to gas light us, or you are really that blind. Wow. Just wow! A few isolated riots?

[rogue06]

The powerful/wealthy force behind it is Fox News. It's in their best interest to keep conservatives frightened of imaginary threats. As long as people uncritically consume Republican propaganda, there will be activists and academics that take extreme stances out of frustration.

Got to hand it to Fox News for somehow managing to get those on the left to do exactly what they are reporting they are doing wrt Critical Race Theory. That's a real talent there.

And to trick some of those on the left to criticize it as well... Masterful

[Psychic Missile]

I do understand it. I understand it quite well.

You keep making reference to "conservative media," namely Fox News. My guess is you probably watch it more than all the conservatives in here combined.

If you understood it, you wouldn't reduce it to "cops are racists, killing minorities at will just because they're racists and thus need to be defunded or abolished".

[Psychic Missile]

Fox news is teaching that 'racism is systemic and all whites are racist' in schools?

Fox News is teaching that those ideas are threatening, leading to the current CRT paranoia.

[Sparko]

Fox News is teaching that those ideas are threatening, leading to the current CRT paranoia.

But you agree that they (the schools) ARE teaching those ideas?

[seer]

Fox News is teaching that those ideas are threatening, leading to the current CRT paranoia.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Common themes

Common themes that are characteristic of work in critical race theory, as documented by such scholars as Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, include:

• Critique of liberalism: Critical race theory scholars question foundational liberal concepts such as Enlightenment rationalism, legal equality, and Constitutional neutrality, and challenge the incrementalist, step-by-step approach of traditional civil-rights discourse;^[12] they favor a race-conscious approach to social transformation, critiquing liberal ideas such as affirmative action, color blindness, role modeling, or the merit principle;^[28] and an approach that relies more on political organizing, in contrast to liberalism's reliance on rights-based remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic...e_theory#Views


Delgado, Richard. Critical Race Theory, Third Edition. NYU Press. Kindle Edition, p. 3.

The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. The movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up but places them in a broader perspective that includes economics, history, setting, group and self-interest, and emotions and the unconscious. Unlike traditional civil rights discourse, which stresses incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/


The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nat...244309587.html

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[Sparko]

Most of that seems to me to be "American Values" rather than "white values"

Hard work, taking responsibility, optimism about the future, individualism and independence, respect authority...