Critical Race Theory does not ask society to improve itself through laws, which is the only way a civilization can apply improvement.
CRT invents a new moral rule - a new "sin" - of which people can be guilty because of their relationship to a skin color. Unlike other sins - which you can see happening and try to avoid doing - you can only see the results of this new sin by listening to a certain kind of testimony which blames people's problems on this sin, and you can only resist this sin by accepting that testimony, which stridently insists that you accept a radical worldview and agenda.
In other words systemic or structural oppression isn't real. It doesn't help explain our experiences. CRT does not even TRY to describe what systemic/structural oppression is or the process by which it causes suffering. (In fact it aggressively beats back this line of questioning by asserting that rationality and cause-effect thinking are themselves systemic/structural oppression.)
CRT neophytes will sometimes cite overtly discriminatory policies like redlining or Jim Crow as examples. However, CRT academics and activists all agree that systemic/structural oppression is something else entirely, that personal bigotry and legal discrimination are merely manifestations of the underlying sin, and their decline does not indicate a decline in systemic/structural oppression.
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