Cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point have been taught to analyze society through the Marxist lens of critical race theory (CRT), according to documents released Monday by Judicial Watch.
The more than 600 pages of records, which include presentation slides about CRT, “whiteness,” and “queer theory” were only given to Judicial Watch after the watchdog group sued the U.S. Department of Defense.
One presentation that discusses “whiteness” states that it’s “first necessary to address whiteness” and the “take-for-grantedness of whiteness” before one can understand “racial inequality and slavery.”
It moves on to describe “whiteness” as “a location of structural advantage, of race privilege” and “a standpoint or place from which white people look at themselves and the rest of society,” and “a set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.”…