On Friday night, Ben Shapiro appeared on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” where he eviscerated MSNBC liberal Malcom Nance over Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Shapiro brilliantly laid out what CRT is:
“Yes, there’s a certain sort of crystallized version of it that is a lot less complex than what Critical Race Theory actually is. But Critical Race Theory essentially argues that racism is baked into all the systems of American society, and that any sort of neutral system is in fact, a guise for racial power. And so the argument is made by Derrick Bell, for example, that Brown versus Board of Education, and this is an argument he made in 1991, that Brown versus Board of Education was actually a way for the white community to leverage its own power. It wasn’t an attempt to end segregation in public schools, even things that are purportedly good in terms of race, so long as they uphold these broader systems, things like capitalism, or things like the meritocracy, these things are actually just guises for power. And so what that boils down to in sort of practical terms is all disparity equals discrimination. If you can see any stat where black people are underperforming white people, this means the system was set up for the benefit of white people, and that white people have a duty to tear down these systems in order to alleviate the racism that’s implicit in those systems. When it comes to schools, what this tends to boil down to is kids who are white have experienced privilege because the system was built for white people. And we have to change the standards…
I define Critical Race Theory by citing the actual authors of Critical Race Theory and you seem to be a pretty good beneficiary of the meritocracy because you have merit, Malcolm. So, if you’re going to criticize the meritocracy as an outgrowth of white supremacy then you’re going to have to tear down the system that you’ve succeeded in because you merit or do not have merit.”
Shapiro pointed out to MSNBC liberal Malcom Nanace that he seemed “to be a pretty good beneficiary of the meritocracy because you have merit. If you’re going to criticize the meritocracy as an outgrowth of white supremacy, then you’re going to have to tear down the system that you’ve succeeded in because you have merit."
Nance later suggested he believes Critical Race Theory has been "hijacked" by the far left and is actually about ensuring history is adequately taught in schools – not about instilling a reverse sense of racism in anti-White culture.
Shapiro accused Nance of attempting to "redefine" Critical Race Theory and said it was a "cheap semantic trick."