Jan 29, 2025 06:09 PM
(This post was last modified: Jan 29, 2025 08:51 PM by C C.)
Clarifies that the era of Woke was an [abstract] academic frustration with liberalism and its traditional approach to equality, and a concrete social effort to replace that with radical equity. Or the elimination of liberalism's [no favorites] color and identity blindness, merit principle, etc -- and doing the opposite of selecting, acting/adjusting on the basis of both ethnic and physical status, and personal identity orientation. As well as substituting valid research -- that should be without presuppositions -- with the ideological storytelling of the humanities (i.e., entering with already set guiding and interpreting presuppositions).
CRT: First and foremost to CRT legal scholars in 1993 was their "discontent" with the way in which liberalism addressed race issues in the US. They critiqued "liberal jurisprudence", including affirmative action, color-blindness, role modeling, and the merit principle. Specifically, they claimed that the liberal concept of value-neutral law contributed to maintenance of the US's racially unjust social order. [...] Academic critics of CRT argue it is based on storytelling instead of evidence and reason, rejects truth and merit, and undervalues liberalism. [...CRT scholars view...] the liberal notion of U.S. law as "neutral" as playing a significant role in maintaining a racially unjust social order, where formally color-blind laws continue to have racially discriminatory outcomes. (I.e., discrimination is not universally bad, discrimination can be used to resolve discrimination.)
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The military and the end of DEI
https://www.realcleardefense.com/article...87879.html
EXCERPT: . . . As the new Commander-in-Chief has made clear, there is little doubt he and his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will order our military to fully comply with this colorblind merit-based mandate. It goes without saying that if such a mandate is considered necessary for our Federal Government to follow (and broad majorities of Americans across all races believe it is), it is even more essential that it be made fully applicable to our Armed Forces.
As the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board opined on January 22:
Mr. Trump’s order rightly notes that DEI can lead to “illegal discrimination or preferences.” . . .
The Journal goes on to observe that Dr. King “called America to its better self—by making good on its founding promise that people would be judged on their character and merit” rather than on the color of their skin.
For the Armed Services to implement President Trump’s directives, step one is to transparently end their massive jumble of DEI programs; and second, to immediately return our Nation’s service academies to using colorblind merit-based admissions systems that do not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin... (MORE - missing details)
CRT: First and foremost to CRT legal scholars in 1993 was their "discontent" with the way in which liberalism addressed race issues in the US. They critiqued "liberal jurisprudence", including affirmative action, color-blindness, role modeling, and the merit principle. Specifically, they claimed that the liberal concept of value-neutral law contributed to maintenance of the US's racially unjust social order. [...] Academic critics of CRT argue it is based on storytelling instead of evidence and reason, rejects truth and merit, and undervalues liberalism. [...CRT scholars view...] the liberal notion of U.S. law as "neutral" as playing a significant role in maintaining a racially unjust social order, where formally color-blind laws continue to have racially discriminatory outcomes. (I.e., discrimination is not universally bad, discrimination can be used to resolve discrimination.)
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The military and the end of DEI
https://www.realcleardefense.com/article...87879.html
EXCERPT: . . . As the new Commander-in-Chief has made clear, there is little doubt he and his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will order our military to fully comply with this colorblind merit-based mandate. It goes without saying that if such a mandate is considered necessary for our Federal Government to follow (and broad majorities of Americans across all races believe it is), it is even more essential that it be made fully applicable to our Armed Forces.
As the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board opined on January 22:
The American people made clear they’re tired of DEI’s divisive ideology. [In one of his first Executive Orders, President Trump] repeal[ed] Executive Order 13985, which [President Biden] signed on his first day in office to promote “equity across the federal government.” By “equity” [Biden] meant equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. (Emphasis added.)
Mr. Trump’s order rightly notes that DEI can lead to “illegal discrimination or preferences.” . . .
The Journal goes on to observe that Dr. King “called America to its better self—by making good on its founding promise that people would be judged on their character and merit” rather than on the color of their skin.
For the Armed Services to implement President Trump’s directives, step one is to transparently end their massive jumble of DEI programs; and second, to immediately return our Nation’s service academies to using colorblind merit-based admissions systems that do not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, or national origin... (MORE - missing details)
