# Protest and Paranoia
## Intro (Critical Race Theory in Education)
- "Critical perspectives" reject a policy of gradual improvement
- Policy is not a mechanism with delivers progressively greater degrees of equity, but a process dominated by the white population. Progress is won through protest, and gains are quickly cut back.
- Conflict between traditional approaches and critical perspectives
- People agree we should rectify disparate access, but no reason to assume equity is the goal.
*"Equality is that citizens A and B are equal. Equity is adjusting shares so that citizens A and B are made equal."*
- Paranoid conspiracy theory that the dominant white population are a bourgeoisie purposely erecting a system to exclude others.
- Critical Theorists have the perspective and method of protest, but this is not a novel approach

## Communism Doesn't Know How
- Don't know how to achieve the goal (any: Communism, Racial Justice, Gender Justice, Climate Justice, Vaccine Justice, Health Justice). Medical Lysenkoism
- What they do know is protest. Disrupt Dismantle Destroy.
- Destructive but rhetorically savvy. Create apperance that they create though they negate.
- Paranoid about coming "Blacklash": counter resistance to our "Resist"!ance. So much literature is devoted to overcoming resistance
- Refusal to protest is "radical" and comes from the ways in which words are grouped and regrouped - freed from familiar use and abuse

## Refusing Protest
- Power requires a negative dialectic to inspire new ways of thinking
- Languaged used to maintain power