Pawning CRT

"Look at my life. The life you tried to take. There was Annapolis, Vietnam, so on. I missed the Sixties. And I believe if I had been there--to contribute--everything would've been fine."
--William Strannix (Under Siege)

Two articles from a weekend spread on the always interesting American Greatness website about growing public pushback against 'critical race theory' (CRT). The first one touches on the Marxist roots of CRT. When the Marxian 'class war' hypothesis was falsified, proponents pivoted toward cultural rationales to spark unrest. As these pages have recounted, that pivot spawned CRT.

The second article argues that CRT is primarily a product of leftist baby boomer regret/guilt about the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Many of them sat out the movement. Now, they are projecting their shame on others by creating a new civil rights movement that rallies against concocted bogeymen.

In reality, these two threads are related. Cultural Marxism is constantly in search of narratives with capacity to recruit useful idiots to take up the cause of social disorder. These narratives lean heavily on mechanisms of superstition and emotional capture. Similar to climate change and corona fables, CRT narratives conveniently serve to mobilize the weak-minded as pawns for cultural Marxists.