Will Forrest
2 min readMay 19, 2023

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“What we are talking about is an ideology that aims to pit groups of people against each other, often based on their immutable characteristics, and wants these groups to fight endlessly in order to destroy the status quo. Any reasonable person would recognize that this is an extremist and dangerous ideology. While not every cultural systemist goes as far as what is quoted above, even in its more moderate forms, cultural systemism is still an ideology of hate not love, an ideology of destruction not cooperation, and a fundamentally anti-intellectual ideology”

I am trying to absorb your arguments with good faith, as you commonly try to dissociate yourself from FOX news style characterization of “wokeness”, but this little section here makes me think otherwise. When I was a libertarian 17 years ago, I remember reading similar arguments by Ayn Rand written in the 60s, all which never came to fruition and was a classic straw man position, probably coming from her shadow of living through the Soviet Union as a child rather from any deep philosophical analysis.

So I ask you, what on earth are you basing this on? You can link other pieces you’ve written if you feel like you’ve covered this with suitable evidence already. How does CRT lead to hate, when CRT is simply pointing out the unequal outcomes as a result of slavery and colonialism and subsequent systemic iterations? It certainly makes one more sensitive to people blindly supporting and enabling current injustices to continue, and that’s what we see with people reacting to “microagressions”. But does it lead to hate? Do we see violence? Do we see a counter movement of oppression of white people? Really, where is that evidence?

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