# Critical Race Theory Boogeyman **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 21, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-race-theory-boogeyman/944754 "2021-06-21T12:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-race-theory-boogeyman/944754/23 "2021-06-21T17:37:47Z")
And that paragraph is similar to what I have read. First, this is “academic discipline” by “scholars” so just listen to us, you high school only educated little ones. And “racial emancipation” and “anti-subordination”? What does that even mean? It is well poisoning at minimum. But turning my head sideways, squinting, and giving it the most charitable interpretation possible, it seems to say that facially neutral and color blind laws are nonetheless still hurting minorities and people of color. Is that fair? If so, what laws, and what do we do about them? Repeal this or that law? Modify it? Change our whole system of law? How do we analyze facially neutral laws so that they don’t have this effect? > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > On the other hand, as far as I can tell, it isn’t about teaching white kids that they should feel some kind of collective guilt over the actions of their ancestors. Right. I’m told it isn’t that. I am told a million things about what it “isn’t.” What it IS is very difficult to get without buzz words and academic speak. Is there a paragraph that would state the point to someone with a tenth grade education, for example? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/critical-race-theory-boogeyman/944754)._