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Carl analyses CRT from Nietzsche's view of master/slave moralities, the question of truth, and our moral prejudices.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/premium-video-nietzsches-critique-of-critical-race-theory-21-07-2022Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T14:35:14.000000Z2022-07-21T17:00:00.000000Z
Carl explains the origin of the Critical Race Theory perspective on identity and representation in media.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/crt-explained-7-or-representation-and-identity-24-03-22Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T14:47:13.000000Z2022-03-24T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl discusses one of the few critical race theory essays that has genuine intellectual merit to which conservatives should pay close attention.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-6-or-what-is-a-tribe-24-02-22Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T14:52:13.000000Z2022-02-24T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl examines the source of the unremittent racism that underpins Critical Race Theory.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-5-or-race-consciousness-black-genocide-and-affirmativeCarl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T14:59:27.000000Z2022-02-03T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl examines Kimberle Crenshaw's essay in which she details how the critical race theorists must use Antonio Gramsci's tactics of a "war of position" against the West.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-4-the-gramscian-attack-on-liberal-rights-12-01-22Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T15:03:53.000000Z2022-01-12T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl explains how critical race theory substitutes the assumptions of Locke for the assumptions of Rousseau.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-3-or-the-substitution-of-locke-for-rousseau-23-12-21Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T15:05:39.000000Z2021-12-23T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl explores Mari Matsuda's essay Looking to the Bottom: Critical Legal Studies and Reparations, in which she explains why we need to look to people of colour to understand the world.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-2-or-the-epistemology-of-oppression-09-12-21Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T15:06:53.000000Z2021-12-10T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl takes a detailed look at the reason Critical Race Theory came into existence.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-crt-explained-1-or-the-problem-with-civil-rights-06-12-21Carl BenjaminLotus Staff2023-04-12T15:14:50.000000Z2021-12-06T15:00:00.000000Z
Carl explains why Critical Race Theory is a conscious effort by Kimberle Crenshaw and her comrades to conduct a Gramscian "war of position" against mainstream society.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-critical-race-theory-a-war-on-positions-29-10-2021Carl BenjaminJonathan WongLotus Staff2023-04-12T15:14:41.000000Z2021-10-28T12:30:00.000000Z
Carl explains Critical Race Theory with their own texts, and it sounds as awful as conservatives say it is.
]]>https://www.lotuseaters.com/video-critical-race-theory-explained-30-06-21Carl BenjaminLotus Eater2023-04-12T15:13:52.000000Z2021-06-30T16:25:00.000000Z