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This is a solid analogy but it's incorrectly being attributed as an explanation of CRT.

However, this is not CRT.

It would be CRT if that building was strictly for lawyers and thus the practice of law is affected thusly. But the analogy is about all institutions, not just legal. Financial, educational, homeownership... all were built to favor one class and not the other and thus it is right to take steps expand the construction lest our whole country go down like a condo in florida
. In effect, this is thinking critically about race but that is NOT the same as it being CRT.

You may accuse me of pedantry but it's frustrating as hell to see both sides of the argument get it wrong so that nothing will ever be set right.

TheMiddleWay 8 June 28
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But we built the ramps and the parking spaces. Affirmative Action, NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, and a myriad of other race based initiatives.

@TheMiddleWay your statement here is also debatable. Outcomes are not automatically the result of racism. In fact, the vast majority of the time they are not. The root cause of the problem is not the foundation of our country. Simply standing on top of buildings shouting racism or making analogies will fix nothing.

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I agree with the objective of Constitutional-based anti-discrimination policies. The problem is they are only marginally successful. The problem lies in default human behavior where we are programed to favor those like us and be cautious of those not like us. When each race and culture prefers to favor their own traditions over others, there will always be conflict. When each culture takes on aspects of the culture surrounding them it is a little easier to get along.

You cannot correct human behavior with role reversal. In the Marx brothers film "Horse Feathers" a faculty member rushes up to Grocho saying "You must hurry, the dean is waxing wroth". Grocho replies "Well have Roth wax the dean for a while".

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I believe the dividing line between CRT and Constitutional-based anti-discrimination policies is the first seeks to push one group down to place another group above and the second seeks to lift EVERYONE up to their highest place of individual capacity.

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