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For those who believe today's (Critical) "Social Justice" movement continues the noble work of the Civil Rights Movement, or is about civil rights at all, you should learn that it arose out of the aspects of the 1960s activism that Civil Rights leaders said weren't their movement
The Civil Rights Movement was rooted in liberalism, equality, and universal humanity. The Critical Social Justice movement is rooted in Critical Theory, liberationism, equity, and narrow identity politics in a style formalized in the late 1970s.
It's almost impossible to express how diametrically opposed the Critical Social Justice movement is to the Civil Rights Movement, and people don't believe you even when you show them quotes. The CSJ movement regards the CRM as part of a grand conspiracy to maintain racism, tho.
Maybe the easiest way to do this is to realize that the Civil Rights Movement marched with placards reading "I am a man." Critical Social Justice, in its own words, says, "I am Black" is more meaningful and important than "I am a person who happens to be black."
The Civil Rights Movement explicitly tried to minimize the social significance of race. Critical Race Theory as part of Critical Social Justice explicitly forwards it and increases its social significance for the style of radical identity politics mentioned previously.
Kimberle Crenshaw, founder of intersectionality and co-founder of Critical Race Theory, wrote explicitly that saying that one's racial identity is less important than their universally human identity is the specific problem where the Civil Rights Movement got things wrong.
It's utterly galling to me, and it should be galling to you, to see these (Critical) "Social Justice" activists pretending they continue and advance the same noble agenda as the Civil Rights Movement. They do the opposite, and they pollute and pervert a shining gem of history.
Postscript:
A few links to relevant reading about this. https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/identity-politics-civil-rights-movements/
A few links to relevant reading about this. https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/identity-politics-civil-rights-movements/
PPS: Here's a quote directly from a book carrying the title "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" where they tell you what CRT is actually about, including that it rejects the approach of the Civil Rights Movement, rationalism, equality, and the constitution.
