I've been thinking about Critical Theory this week and had a couple of realizations. One is that CT is (for now) a cudgel of the left. It took everyone a bit by surprise to begin with, but now the wider population is starting to get to grips with it. It's only a matter of time before it starts being applied to all sorts of things and that is the sinister lefts big miscalculation and that is why they are desperate to blitzkrieg it through the educational establishment.
Critical Theory is the process of deconstructing existing power structures, but whose power structures are in the most tenuous positions? Whose arguments are the weakest and stand up least well to criticism? Well the progressive lefts of course!
Witnessing as we are how hard they are already having to fight to cancel and censor competing viewpoints. Afterall isn't that all someone like Andy Ngo is - he criticizes Antifa, it's Critical Antifascist Theory in everything but name. If the sinister left keeps pushing things like Critical Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory can we not look forward to the blossoming of Critical Socialist Theory and Critical Jewish Theory?
I think this whole thing is going to pull itself to pieces, the very people who currently wield these fields of study are well aware they are just window dressing for pushing through their political ambitions under cover, but when the spotlight is turned on them, as it inevitably will be, their ideas will disintegrate. By introducing this into schools and the questioning minds of children, they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction, because when those children grow up and progress into liberal colleges they are going to want to investigate how this ideology became so powerful that it could be forced on them in such a biased and authoritarian fashion, and they will know which are the real power structures that need dismantling. It worked when it was sprung on college age kids, with only two or three years of study, they blindly accept it, but when it's been pushed on you for ten years prior to even reaching college, you've had enough time to note the internal inconsistencies, contradictions and omissions. Yes it's going to be entertaining watching these revolutionary professors getting hoisted from their own petard.
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