We all have stories. We have parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends. We went to at least some school. We ate lunch with people. We made trips somewhere. We had good things happen, and bad things, perhaps terrible things. We have all felt happy, sad, upset, angry, perhaps traumatized, sulky, moody, arrogant, inferior.
We all watch media, or most of us. Those of us who don’t perhaps have the best stories. We have preferences, usually which we discuss with friends, if we have any.
Here is my point: the more or less official viewpoint of the New York Times, as emblematic of American media generally–with far too few exceptions–is that conservatives do not have stories. We do not, as individuals, have context. We do not have personalities. If we do have stories, they amount to a continual and incessant desire for malice. For racism, beating up homosexuals, rejecting transgenders, for bullying women. That is all we do all day. All we think about. We refuse to drink at the well of wisdom, and spurn all goodness.
That this is cartoonish and ludicrous does not mean it is not happening. It is.
I would comment specifically that the Frankfurt School, which is in my understanding generally what is being referenced when Critical Race Theory is being discussed, came out of the same culture which created the Nazis. I would even argue that it articulated an equal and opposite racism, with just as much hate, just as little nuance, and just as much blind assumption made about large heterogeneous groups of people as the actual National Socialist German Workers Party did.
People who are not in touch with their emotions do not see color and texture. They lack the ability to ferret out specific forms from the masses of people in their brains. One person stands in for all.
Max Weber–also of course a German–came up with the idea of the Ideal Type. But he intended it as an heuristic, the boundaries and limits of whose usefulness he erroneously assumed intelligent people would naturally see. OBVIOUSLY all individuals differ in their goals, histories, ambitions, understandings and daily moods. This is common sense. This is why racism is inherently prejudice and cannot be seen otherwise. It cannot possible hope to encompass all possible individual stories.
Critical Race Theory is therefore Nazism by another name. I truly believe this. It is the same morphologically, and the same in its utter lack of humanity and emotional intelligence.