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By Stella Morabito
\nFederalist<\/p>\n
Of all the ways identity politics is used as a tool to sow hatred among people where there should be the potential for friendship, \u201ccritical race theory\u201d is one of the gravest offenders. Every person of goodwill should know that judging people based on their physical characteristics is cruel and wrong.<\/p>\n
This is not the nature of critical race theory, however. Rather, the insidious ideology is being used to promote estrangement rather than friendship, and hostility rather than goodwill. Indeed, the tactics used by proponents of critical race theory share many parallels with old tactics used by the Bolsheviks.<\/p>\n
As such, federal employees and those who work for corporations that do business with the federal government sucked into the poisonous vortex of critical race theory can thank President Trump for ordering a stop<\/a>to the promulgation of critical race theory.\u00a0Thanks should also be sent to scholar Christopher Rufo, whose diligence<\/a>brought the critical race theory venom to the forefront of Trump\u2019s attention, and Russ Vought<\/a>, director of the Office of Management and Budget, who is working<\/a> to root out members of the administrative state who defy that order.<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to remember that because very few of its activists have shown much sincere desire to end racism, critical race theory should not be taken entirely at face value. If a majority of its supporters were<\/em> sincere, they would be willing to have fruitful discussions in a civil society that supports civil discourse. Rather, critical race theory\u2019s agitators are committed to tearing down civil society on the pretense that it is an incubator for \u201csystemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve any doubt about that, consider the Smithsonian display on \u201cwhiteness\u201d<\/a>that condemned all elements of civil society, including politeness, hard work, self-reliance, logic, planning, and family cohesion. None of those are \u201cwhite\u201d values, but critical race theory frames them just so. This sort of animus proves that critical race theory \u201carguments\u201d are non-starters and merely serve as convenient pretexts for power grabs.<\/p>\n Doused with critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter organization and its related Antifa-infused mobs are organized for the same purposes as all cult recruits<\/a>: to recruit more people and to implement the desire to divide and conquer. The phenomenon can be seen as they surround people in vehicles<\/a> or restaurants<\/a>, demanding their victims raise a fist and recite slogans under the intense intimidation and implications of violence.<\/p>\n Indeed, agitators who deploy critical race theory have zero interest in ending racism. Instead, they\u2019ve made essentially the same point over and over again: Racism is an unsolvable<\/em> problem. If you\u2019ve been tainted as \u201cwhite,\u201d there\u2019s nothing you can do about it. You are eternally a racist, especially if you don\u2019t believe you are.<\/p>\n Robin D\u2019Angelo explains it all in her best-selling book \u201cWhite Fragility.\u201d Your only option is the cultist\u2019s option: submit to your critical race theory overlords, then recruit others to do the same. If, however, you\u2019re a black person who disagrees with all of this, well, then, \u201cYou ain\u2019t black<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n As with all forms of identity politics and intersectionality, critical race theory stokes divisions between people where few or none existed before. It\u2019s all about relational aggression and predatory alienation<\/a>.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at a perfect example of this process, a parallel case from Soviet history. As peasant farmers tended to be overwhelmingly religious, traditional, and family-oriented, the Bolshevik government hated them with a fiery passion. Increasing the acrimony further, the peasants resisted giving up their family-run farms\u2014a roadblock to the Soviet leadership\u2019s desire to exercise complete control over the nation\u2019s food supply.<\/p>\n To collectivize agriculture, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin devised a plan to stir up hostilities among the peasants where resentments had never existed before. As would be the case later with Mao\u2019s Red Guard (and today\u2019s radical statue-toppling, Molotov-cocktail-throwing radicals), the Soviets used mobs of youth to do the dirty work.<\/p>\n The communist youth league, known as the Komsomol, went into villages to propagandize and incite divisions, turning formerly peaceful neighbors against one another. In his book<\/a> \u201cThe Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin\u2019s Russia,\u201d Orlando Figes describes the situation:<\/p>\n The villagers had never heard such propaganda in the past, and many were impressed by the long words used by the leaders of the Komsomol. At these meetings, the villagers were told that they belonged to three mutually hostile classes: the poor peasants, who were the allies of the proletariat, the middle peasants, who were neutral, and the rich or \u2018kulak\u2019 peasants, who were its enemies. The names of all the peasants in these different classes were listed on a board outside the village school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This process is eerily similar to the way critical race theory \u2014 and all identity politics \u2014 has been applied in America. You can see the same three divisions: victims, oppressors, and those who might save themselves by becoming \u201callies\u201d of the victims.<\/p>\n