Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since theCivil Rights Movementand a
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Meme is a word most of us would not have recognized ten years ago. Now they’re a daily occurrence. The word meme was first coinedby British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book,The Selfish Gene.He derived the term from the Greek word "mimema," which means "that which...
All this alongside a relentless pretence at meritocracy and a stress on individualism over collectivism, implying that dissatisfaction with your circumstances was not a result of structural conditions, but an individual failing that only you could change – by altering yourself and not the system. ...
In reality, that song was first penned asa Marxist critique of the notion of private property— in direct opposition to the narrow notion of freedom the 1776 report venerates. Woodie Guthrie — of “This machine kills fascists” fame — would not only have vehemently opposed the sort of “...
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Bomani JONES: They need to believe that sports are pure meritocracy because, honestly, they don’t believe there’s a meritocracy anywhere else. We focus on the latest case of sportswashing, in the usually boring precinct of professional golf. ...
They critique the myth of a meritocracy and identify so-called "colorblind" jurisprudence as one of the key mechanisms that maintains white supremacy: "Laws produced racial power not simply through narrowing the scope of, say, of antidis- crimination remedies, nor through racially-biased decision-...