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1 " Critical Race Theory seeks to improve Marxism by making it deliberately racist. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

2 " Critical Race Theory is an institutional and conceptual virus. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

3 " Despite any evidence summoned against these claims, Critical Race Theory ultimately holds the view that “racism” is the correct explanation for all disparity in outcomes from one racial group to another when “brown” races and blacks underperform whites on average. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

4 " Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

5 " In other words, Critical Race Theory, like all Critical Theories, like all Marxian Theories, is ultimately religious in nature. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

6 " Critical Race Theory, n.: (1) Calling everything you want to control “racist” until it is fully under your control. (2) A Marxian conflict theory of race; i.e., Race Marxism (3) A belief that racism created by white people for their own benefit is the fundamental organizing principle of society. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

7 " They already believe they know everything they need to know about how power works: it arises from systems, and it oppresses. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

8 " A simple way of characterizing Critical Race Theory is now available: it is an activist movement based upon a motivated study of what it calls “systemic racism” and how that phenomenon defines power and creates oppression in society. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

9 " Like other totalitarians in a long line preceding them, Critical Race Theorists are interested in ordering the world according to the vision contained in their Theory. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

10 " Critical Race Theory is the belief that racism that benefits white people (“white supremacy”) is the fundamental organizing principle of society (and that this is bad). "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

11 " Like other totalitarians in a long line preceding them, Critical Race Theorists are interested in ordering the world according to the vision contained in their "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

12 " In Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, for example, Delgado and Stefancic write, Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

13 " If racism cannot be ended from within the system and yet it must be ended as a matter of moral imperative, it follows that the logic of Critical Race Theory insists that the system itself must be disrupted, dismantled, and ultimately destroyed and replaced with a new one. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

14 " If the group labeled “whites” outperforms any other racial group, for instance, that’s said to be caused by white supremacy and systemic racism that Critical Race Theory needs to find by “interrogating” the relevant system. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

15 " Critical Race Theory, by “considering many of the same issues that conventional civil rights…discourses take up” actually (dialectically) synthesizes some liberalism and some postmodernism into its neo-Marxist foundation. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

16 " Most people do not realize that Critical Race Theory also accepts that racism is permanent "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

17 " Belief in Material Determinism by Race Material determinism is an old Marxist idea that material conditions determine the choices people make, including moral and intellectual choices. In other words, noble ideals like “the content of one’s character” cannot truly be used as a basis for judging people because the material conditions they find themselves in—and consciousness regarding those conditions—ultimately determine their character. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

18 " In turn, subjective assessments take priority over objective ones (which are denied as being falsely objective and, often, “white”), which hits truth largely only by accident, empowers grifters, and grants ultimate authority to those within the Party—a proven recipe for societal disaster. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

19 " In Critical Race Theory, the doctrine of the “unique voice of color” therefore turns one’s racial identity into a political identity and one’s political identity is one’s racial identity. "

― James A. Lindsay , Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis