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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8525816" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>The evolution of language and the removal of terms from their context, such as privilege in this context, like the touchy Critical Race Theory, from its academic area into modern jargon, has encrusted both with barnacles that have confused their meaning. To the layman racism and prejudice mean the exact same thing but when academics discuss racism they are discussing systemic elements and not necessarily that Bob is prejudice so when the academic says “Bob takes part in the white privilege of a racist system” Bob hears “Bob is prejudice and hates black people”, not “Bob lives in a country where the laws for 100 years were written to target minorities and other marginalized communities that as a result of the luck of birth he is not a member of”. When Bob hears Fox News discuss “Critical Race Theory” in schools he doesn’t hear that it’s a masters degree level course taught to law students discussing how race played a role in determining housing markets, traffic lights and drug laws but that his kids are going to learn about how “white people did bad things and his kids are bad because they are white”. Bob is scared of a ghost because Bob isn’t an academic. We don’t have a culture that rewards academia and have moved away from a culture that has some respect for people of intelligence unless they can blow stuff up real good.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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