"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
