What Critical Theorists Get Wrong
Power vs. Strength
Wokal Distance, an activist against critical theory, explained it best: Critical Theory or Critical Race Theory isn’t about deconstructing falsehoods but about deconstructing people who believe certain things, namely by accusing people of having power and having won said power on racist/sexist/whatever grounds.
The last thing Critical Theory will ever criticize is its own methods. Supporters of the movement believe they are the powerless class because they’re women, minorities, disabled, and so on. But what critical theorists consistently get wrong is that the people they accuse of holding power may not even hold any power.
It’s the critical theorists who believe life is a struggle for power. They believe some people or groups or classes have “the power” and some others don’t. As a consequence of this line of thinking, they seek to criticize and mock the groups of people they perceive as powerful, namely in their attempt to debase said groups — especially straight white Christian men.
Never mind that there are as many lower-class white Americans living in trailer parks as there are black people living in the USA!
The underlying question is: Why does the activist Left perceive certain groups as having the power? What do they even think power is? They believe, for example, that a white man who knows how to fix a roof is “privileged”, and that the only reason some black men don’t know how to fix a roof is that the White Supremacy holds black men back.
It doesn’t occur to the activists that people who learned how to fix roofs must have put in the effort to learn the skill, nor that many such men who fix roofs picked up these skills in their free time. The White Supremacy, insofar that even exists, doesn’t teach men roofing.
What so deeply confuses activists on the Left is the difference between power and strength. Power means to get other people to yield to one’s will, which is a selfish thing. Western civilization wasn’t built on power. It was built on strength. Strength is one’s ability to resist other people’s desire for power, to resist another’s will.
Strength is resistance, and this is the core principle of white Christian culture: We go our own way, defend our ways of life, and pursue our interests regardless of what false ideologies the rest of the world wants to impose on us. It is also the reason why so many white men are perfectly immune to the bizarre accusations lodged against them by critical race theorists.
Lacking strength, a weak person desires to have power over other people. A weak person perceives life as a struggle for power, and consequently, projects this struggle onto “others we don’t like”. They think of power as something that exists in a finite quantity and, therefore, must be taken from others in order to have it.
This line of thinking justifies theft, arson, and even murder. Critical theorists use “criticism” in the form of childishly immature slander, mockery, degradation, debasement, and humiliation of their targets. Their intent is to break their perceived enemies’ psychology in order to disempower them and to “level” the playing field.
But strong men remain unaffected by even the worst humiliations, for these insults simply skimp off their thick hides. Most white men are perfectly powerless, and always have been, but thanks to the incessant barrage of insult and critique received from the hysterical Left, we have learned to stop bullets just by looking at them.
Strong men cannot be broken. And therein lies the source of our power, for we are emotionally mature and psychology unbreakable — unlike the childish crowd coming after us.