Voddie Baucham - Thought Line in fault lines

How in the world can someone like Colin Kaepernick, who makes millions per year, speak of himself as oppressed? How can he imply that all white people are his oppressors--even the redneck in rural Mississippi who has 6 teeth and makes less than $20,000 per year?  

To the uninitiated in the terminology and operations of CRT, this is madness. But when you understand CRT's roots and the evolution of the ideas it inherits, you begin to see the rationale behind such inane claims. (Calling it rational is a stretch. In fact, they don't like the word.) 

The first part of Voddie's work traces the history of what is known today as Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality: from Marx, through Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, then Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw, to our contemporaries like Robin DeAngelo of White Fragility. 

It is a quick summary of the evolution of ideas starting with Marx's Conflict Theory to what has become Critical Social Justice, Anti-racism, and Critical Race Theory today. It's good, but it isn't robust, and Baucham admits this and refers you to Neil Shenvi, James Lindsay (of Grievance Studies and Cynical Theories), and Helen Pluckrose (also of Grievance Studies and Cynical Theories). I advice you to do this. 

One of Gary North's articles (Video: Why "Cultural Marxism" Isn’t Marxist, and Why Anti-Communism Is Impotent in Dealing With It (garynorth.com)) has a video called "The Great Awokening" featuring Lindsay. This was my introduction to James Lindsay. It covers the same material as Baucham, but in more detail and covers the postmodern influence on the Critical Social Justice movement--particularly CSJ's weaponization of it. 

I advise you to chase this rabbit. Why? Because the rabbit trail leads to a worldview that is inherently and intensely totalitarian and authoritarian. The Marxist utopia still lives in the ideologies, as does the demand for revolution. The CSJ ideologies are fiercely religious and all-encompassing. "The Great Awokening" is an extremely apt description, as it adherents are evangelistic via a figurative social sword or gun, with a "gospel" without grace. You need to understand it. You need to be able to recognize it because it always starts seemingly innocuous.

The Marxist language is no longer in the terms of class, but the categories of race, gender, sexuality, sex, weight, attractiveness, intelligence, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. These categories substitute for Marx's category of class. Moreover, Gramsci's influence is immense, and the strategies Gramsci suggests have been successfully employed and utilized--with amazing patience and endurance. 

Gramsci understood that Marx was wrong--the focus on production and economics isn't going to lead to the revolution. The "cultural hegemony" keeps the revolution from happening. An infiltration is needed, as is the construction of counter hegemonies, to bring down the resistance to revolution. 

That infiltration is all but complete for public institutions. The march through the churches is afoot now, and it is coming for your church.