some call CRT & idpol in general "social marxism"; this is a clumsy term, painting w/ too broad a brush. however, it does have some truth to it, in that the ideological predecessor of CRT is Lysenkoism, aka the Soviet flavor of blank-slatism
they both involve motivated reasoning
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RT @ne0agent1c
if we want to be very precise, "race" is simply a coarse classification of human groups by their degree of common descent
"naïve" groupings…
https://twitter.com/ne0agent1c/status/1395511589659365381
this means that the starting point for each ideology is not experiential evidence, which is then used to construct an explanatory system, but rather a desired conclusion, generated by theoretical arguments
the conclusion here, being that all people are identical in their nature
this conclusion is desirable for the reason that it provides an excellent foundation for all sorts of rhetorical trickery; in the Soviet case, it was used to justify the state ideology, lending air cover to its failing policies (see Stalin famines)
CRT leverages blank-slatism precisely for this socioeconomic epigenetic argument structure; rather than being caused by any sort of inherent differences, all divergent outcomes can instead be attributed to outside factors, namely intersections of oppression, systemic injustices
like Stalin's USSR, the American woke, the baizou, started from a set of political goals (reparations, full equity, abolishment of extant power structures), influenced by pre-existing ideological currents, then adopted & subverted the ideology to prop up their goals' validity
given this ideological structure, it is instrumental to their movement to deny the existence of inconvenient underlying biological truths, as they undermine the foundations of their arguments
this is why we must make it maximally difficult to deny reality; don't let them do this
if people are infinitely moldable, then their outcomes are entirely a function of their environment; in this sense, Lysenkoism is a more ideological form of Lamarckism; used, as such, to justify a sort of socioeconomic epigenetics
i think you can see where i'm going w/ this