Equal Protection Wars

In 2011, I wrote a report on Structural Racism describing how the theory had Marxist roots and was making significant inroads in civil rights legal circles and popular thought.   I warned unless somebody with influence started standing up to the systemic racism crowd, the theory would become a 20-year overnight success.   I was right about absolutely everything, except it only took nine years.  It’s 2020 and now we see professional athletes and National Guard troops taking a knee.  We also see the trained Marxists of Black Lives Matter raking in hundreds of millions of dollars to fight the chimera of systemic racism.  The effects will be ruinous if systemic racism theory continues to go unchallenged by the political Right.  No less than your rights to free speech and to practice your religion hang in the balance.  Make no mistake:  the Left is using the Constitution to destroy the Constitution. 

Systemic racism theory derives from Critical Race Theory which holds that racism is ingrained in the fabric of American society and that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture.  These power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuate the marginalization of people of color.  Any disparity of outcome between groups - in health, income, education, etc. - is due to racism, not to personal choices or any other factor.  Systemic racism theory is all about erasing disparities between groups through authoritarian, collectivist means, starting with society-levelling tax rates of 60 to 80 percent. 

Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical legal studies which has Marxist roots.  Critical race theory ultimately derives from critical theory which came from the Frankfurt School, a group of theorists pushing the cultural Marxism of Antonio Gramsci.  ‘Critical’ in this context doesn’t mean analytical thinking.  It means criticizing everything and tearing everything down until there’s nothing left.  This is what cultural Marxists seek to do, to destroy every vestige of society that currently exists in order to soften you up to accept their authoritarian, collectivist program - run by them.  The ultimate source of all this is Karl Marx, the original destroyer who said, “constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair... it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists...”

Recently, we saw another turn in the evolution of critical race thinking.  You are a racist unless you are an in-your-face social justice warrior constantly engaged in fighting racism.  This turn of thought is obviously crazy.  Three other recent developments show the country is becoming lop-sided in promoting diversity to the exclusion of all other values and is headed in the wrong direction:

California requires counties to meet racial quotas (“health equity metrics”) before they can get out from under the state’s COVID lockdown orders.  Washington state barred religious grandparents from fostering their one-year old granddaughter because the child might, maybe, someday, hypothetically speaking, grow up to be gay or transgender in an unfriendly household.  Third, the insane practice of meting out school discipline by racial quotas continues in some places. 

Unless a serious counter-operation is mounted from the Right, we will see a steady stream of stories like this until freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other constitutional values we hold dear are completely devoured in the name of diversity.

But it’s not too late.  None of this is unassailable super-precedent or set in stone.  There have been major reversals in equal protection theory before - Plessy came along announcing the formula ‘separate but equal’ which is now in the dustbin of history.  President Trump has done his part - prohibiting the teaching of Critical Race Theory at federal agencies and federal contractors.  What is needed from us activists is a war room - a sophisticated counter-operation that deconstructs the outlandish novelties coming from the other side and continuously pushes out counter-messages far and wide to key influencers and the general public, to loosen the grip systemic racism theory now has on the popular imagination.  If you have ideas on how to bring such a war room about, please get in touch with me [tips at liberato.us].