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Human Nature vs. Critical Race Theory

A version of CRT has been around for nearly 200,000 years

9 min readMay 6, 2023

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(Editors note: This is part one of a three-part series on Critical Race Theory)

This is being raged about within conservative North American political circles as a way to erase the history of slavery in the United States and how it still permeates society. The rest of the world has largely moved on from this but certain North Americans can’t seem to let it go. The term is now being used as a cudgel in American politics as a way to promote a particular tribal superiority. Something that hasn’t changed since the first Europeans came to Jamestown, VA in 1607.

Critical Race Theory is defined by Britannica as:

Critical Race Theory (CRT), and and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the that is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that is in the law and legal institutions of the insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill
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