How does one force a subjective belief onto another? My subjective beliefs are my subjective beliefs, not anyone else's. Theirs are theirs and I can't force them to change.
I guess you first have to recognise what subjective beliefs entail. How people think, how belief is associated with just about everything we do. How we form assumptions based on those beliefs and how we implicitly apply those beliefs.
If everything we do is based on beliefs then how can a society not impose beliefs on each other in one way or another. Heres a fundemental one. Political parties have a worldview of how society should be ordered to make a good society. Not just economically.
So it stands to reason that because those different world views involve ideological beliefs that which ever party gets in or if minor parties gain influence through those parties then there are going to be a significant part of society that will be forced to go along with those beliefs when they are implemented.
We have many examples. When the new identity laws or the SSM laws we have seen many cases of people claiming they are being forced to conform to beliefs they disagree with. We have even seen people suffer repercussions for standing up for those beliefs.
Any immigrants that come to a western nation have to conform to the dominant nations beliefs. Muslims cannot practice Sharia Law, Indigenous peoples cannot practice their traditional laws. Its unreal to say that we can have a complete neutral society when it comes to beliefs. Its usually whoever gets in power gets the right to determine which beliefs should apply.
No, the state is reminding us that LGBT people exist whether you like it or not and they have to be taken as part of reality.
No one is denying that people have different subjective feelings or sense of self different from others. Its that we as a society are making that the reality for everyone.
For example you say that the LGBT identity is part of reality. OK fair enough, but what kind of reality is this. Is it a universal objective reality that everyone can believe in and go along with.
What happens when say that reality is different to another groups reality. Who gets priority because it is impossible to cater to both. I don't think I need to explain what I mean. But what we can say is that the group biological female is also a real identity, perhaps more real thatn any. So what happens when these two identities clash.
Not just clash but actually are damaging to each other. The reason I know its an ideology is by this fact. Thats probably the only fact that comes out of this mess is that is actually causes a mess for society and is not making a better more equal society.
That's not CRT, that's the fascist rhetorical misrepresentation CRT.
I know its not the original and true principle of CRT. Like all good and nobel ideas such as Feminism in its original form, a nobel and justified cause about womens oppression these movements get politicised and its the extreme ends that seem to bubble to the surface over time as we have seen with Feminism.
But as mentioned the best and only way to determine the truth as to what CRT means today is from the literature, from the main scholars, writers who underpin institutions its agents and corporations. We can discover how CRT is applied in reality.
There is plenty of evidence that shows CRT represents what I have said.
The only groups it pits against one another are right-wing cultural extremists like you vs. everybody else.
First I believe it takes two to Tango. The fact is we have a conflict in society an increasing polarisation of beliefs and views even to the point of physical violence. We have not seen such violence and division for a long time. We have had sporadic riots in the past and we had the subversive side of the civil rights movement.
But now we seem to be divided along many lines and not just race but sex, gender, religion, class, and a growing list of other grievance groups. Perhaps this has been building for some time. But both sides are as guilty as each other.
Both sides are increasing their extremist positions. This is how it seems to be evolving. It use to be more bi partisan and parties met in the middle more often. Then for some reason things became partisan. One side would react to the other as though their position was life or death and reply with the same level of extremity which has gradually increased to the point of violence.
I think there are a number of factors such as social media and world events that have made us more anxious and mentally disturbed. It now seems like a fight for their very existence to many. That's what I think the US election is becoming. Its facinating but also scary.