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Critical race theory is not complex. It may be too generous even to call it an ideology. Regular people understand it is a form of race prejudice, in the words of author Stanley Ridgley, a “psychopathic” and paranoid “conspiracy theory” that makes white people into a demonic, omnipresent enemy. Ridgley, a professor at Drexel University, has done a great service lifting the mask of sophistication in his book, Brutal Minds: Inside the Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in the Universities. At its core, “antiracist education” is shown to be a dehumanizing, and strangely casual, form of psychological torture. Ridgely draws a straight line from Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the contemporary American university, where deranged, underqualified careerists in “student affairs” harangue white students in creepy games and “discussion groups".
The author’s chief concern is in exposing the anonymous bureaucracy that is turning academia into a gravy train for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” consultants. At its core, Brutal Minds is about the corruption of the university by busybodies who inhabit an incestuous, constantly growing administrative behemoth. Ridgley ventures a coinage for this monster, which he calls Cerberus, referring to university education schools, where ambitious, low-caliber functionaries are formally enlisted in the cause of “antiracist pedagogy", student affairs departments, where they are pipelined into plum sinecures and find opportunities to harass and corner students, and the obscure, politburo-like professional lobbies that advocate their takeover of academic life, like the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). He vigorously protests the outsized influence of interlopers whose real jobs are to “make sure the sound system works and the pizza’s hot". These are the “Doctor” Jill Bidens of the world, the petty administrators who tell themselves, “I finally get to use my master’s degree!”
Ridgley has unearthed a legitimate scandal: the secretive psychological targeting of white students by a largely unknown cadre within higher education, one that has quietly taken over the college campus and, to an alarming degree, the K-12 classroom.
Brutal Minds puts to rest such lies as “critical race theory isn’t taught in schools". To the contrary, the madrasas of the education world are saturated with the stuff.
The author does not leave us with much hope the situation is salvageable. While he advocates enforcing legal sanctions, which is certainly a step in the right direction, at present there is no institutional momentum or political will to address racism against whites, and there is even less public awareness of the true, malicious nature of “anti-racism”.
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I don’t think tbe situation is salvageable.
All funding for public schools and universities should be cut off until they get rid of the leftist indoctrination. Anti-communist history should be made mandatory in it’s place, along with the teaching of pro-American history and civics.
If not that, then shut it all down. It’s destroying us.
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