Difference between revisions of "Critical Race Theory"
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Examining many of its positions, it comes off as anti-science, anti-egalitarian, conspiratorial, and ironically enough for proponents of CRT, racist. | Examining many of its positions, it comes off as anti-science, anti-egalitarian, conspiratorial, and ironically enough for proponents of CRT, racist. | ||
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Similar to ideas such as anti-natalism, overt misanthropy, and deontological ethics, it is potentially harmful to the vegan movement to be advocating CRT, as not only is it a socially harmful idea that lacks evidence and fails under scrutiny, it creates the impression that Vegans and the animal rights movement value ideology and rhetoric over empirical evidence and reason. Veganism as a movement must not fall under the umbrella of becoming a partisan political issue (which unfortunately climate change has become) if it is to become a widely accepted ideal for society; Advocating partisan positions such as CRT doesn't help this. | Similar to ideas such as anti-natalism, overt misanthropy, and deontological ethics, it is potentially harmful to the vegan movement to be advocating CRT, as not only is it a socially harmful idea that lacks evidence and fails under scrutiny, it creates the impression that Vegans and the animal rights movement value ideology and rhetoric over empirical evidence and reason. Veganism as a movement must not fall under the umbrella of becoming a partisan political issue (which unfortunately climate change has become) if it is to become a widely accepted ideal for society; Advocating partisan positions such as CRT doesn't help this. | ||
Revision as of 22:01, 22 February 2022
Critical Race Theory (or CRT for short) has become a divisive political topic in the United States in the past couple of years, and it is the evaluation of race in society and culture. It advances the idea that we live in a white-dominated society, and that everyone subconsciously thinks of society through the lens of whiteness and colonialism.
Examining many of its positions, it comes off as anti-science, anti-egalitarian, conspiratorial, and ironically enough for proponents of CRT, racist.
Relevance to Veganism
Similar to ideas such as anti-natalism, overt misanthropy, and deontological ethics, it is potentially harmful to the vegan movement to be advocating CRT, as not only is it a socially harmful idea that lacks evidence and fails under scrutiny, it creates the impression that Vegans and the animal rights movement value ideology and rhetoric over empirical evidence and reason. Veganism as a movement must not fall under the umbrella of becoming a partisan political issue (which unfortunately climate change has become) if it is to become a widely accepted ideal for society; Advocating partisan positions such as CRT doesn't help this.
