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November 27, 2019 Nov 27, 19

Many Americans have admitted disseminating fake news articles in the past.

A recent survey of 1,002 Americans found that 23% reported sharing a made-up news story, both knowingly and unknowingly. 16% found that they shared a story they only later realized was fake.

September 28, 2019 Sep 28, 19

The use of antibiotics on farms is killing people.

In the UK, the government reported that 5,000 people die every year from antibiotic resistant E. Coli, largely caused by farm antibiotics use.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

Racial self-identification promotes racial hierarchies and oppression in American society.

The idealisation of whiteness can be associated with the internalisation of negative stereotypes about one's own racial/ethnic group. This dynamic can also be present in different racial/ethnic groups of colour and not just among African Americans.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

Critical Race Theory is often used to challenge the ways in which racial inequalities persist in American society.

CRT is often used as an approach to examine and challenge the ways in which race and racism continue to impact social structures, practices and discourses in American culture and society (according to scholar, Tara Yosso).

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

Critical Race Theory is about understanding and rising above prejudices.

Purdue University’s website defines CRT as an attempt to understand how marginalised groups, especially black communities that are continually affected by racial discrimination, make persistent efforts to rise above racial prejudices.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

CRT believes that race is not connected to biological reality but is, rather, a product of social thought.

Acknowledging the evolving and malleable nature of CRT, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefansic believe that race is not a biological reality but is a socially constructed concept that is deeply ingrained in an American legal system that often manifests racial inequality.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

CRT recognises that it is the systemic nature of racism in American society that is responsible for creating racial inequalities.

Critical Race Theory does not define racism as an intentional bad act perpetrated by white elites—racist acts are often regarded as "mainstream" or "normal". Rather racism is a sequence of events that results from the unintended consequences of choices in American Society.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

Critical Race Theory holds that racism will not truly end until ending racism benefits white people.

In “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction” Dalgarno and Stefansic cover ‘interest convergence’, which suggests white elites encourage racial advances only to promote white self-interest, and will continue to do so only as long as it keeps serving their ulterior motives.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

CRT is more than just legal studies. Its scope has extended to other academic disciplines with the launch of its activist movement.

CRT began as an attempt by legal scholars to understand racial discrimination faced by black communities, but has now spread beyond legal studies to several other fields—notably women's and gender studies, American studies and sociology.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

International politicians see Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a dangerous trend and ideology.

Critical Race Theory received intense criticism from the British government amidst the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests. Kemi Badenoch, a UK Minister, called it a dangerous trend and an ideology of victimhood. The Minister further announced that the government stands against CRT.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been described as anti-American training propaganda.

In the country’s defence, US President Trump called CRT ‘unamerican’ and later directed the federal agencies to end anti-racism training which, according to him, were divisive and misleading.

April 9, 2021 Apr 9, 21

CRT claims factors (racial differences) that give rise to racial inequality are created by whites to further their interests in markets.

According to The Britannica, CRT defines race as a socially constructed concept often exploited by white elites to further their economic and political interests, by marginalising people of colour. This is done to maintain whites’ interest in labour markets and politics.