The New Right

The New Right
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The New Right was a movement formed by Christian religious leaders and prominent people in business in America to fight against what they termed as unjust policies by the federal government. The religious leaders were against the new Family Rights introduced by the government. For instance, they accused the government of disrespecting the moral fabrics of the family since they believed the right place for a woman was at home, yet the government was giving the women rights to work as professionals (Trowbridge, 392). They were also against homosexuality rights and abortion terming them as sins against God. This was according to the teachings extracted from the Bible. The business bigwigs, on the other hand, were against the government’s policies to conserve the environment and labor law. For example, these policies were denying them a competitive edge against other global businesses.
Consequently, having been brought together by their grievances against the government policies, both the Christian religious leaders and prominent business adopted Barry Goldwater’s ideology that stated the federal government was the greatest threat to American liberty and they combined to form the New Right (Trowbridge, 367). The main messages of the movement were anti-homosexuality, antiabortion and the position of the woman in the society. They were against the labor laws and environment policies put in place by the government. Their main enemy was the big government. They organized demonstrations to oppose government policies and supported anyone who was inclined to their ideologies for a political position while they opposed those against them.

Due to their extremism, they later welcomed extremists like Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi parties (Trowbridge, 405). Lastly, The New Right also supported the right of ownership of guns by the American citizens to protect themselves against their perceived enemy.
Critical Race Theory
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Critical Race Theory is an ideology that recognizes that racism is coiled in the America culture and systems. It emphasizes that racism will still continue to exist even in the absence of the individual racist. Unlike the legal discourse that recognizes law as neutral, Critical Race Theory challenges the neutrality of law by examining liberalism and meritocracy as a tool for self-interest, power, and privileges (Trowbridge, 401). The theory also emphasizes on the ideology that the systems and structures favor white supremacy and privileges thus, contributing to discrimination of people of color. It is of the opinion that race and racism are not biological and therefore not contained in genetics, but rather it is something that the society invents, manipulates and disposes of whenever it feels like doing so.
Contrarily, the theory also challenges the notion that each race has its specific origin and that it is ever evolving. Additionally, it denies the context that nobody has a specific, unique and simply noted identity. The theory also acknowledges that individual from same native habitat may share various physical qualities like hair components, or skin tone. More ever, it also suggests that these features show that these people share a minimum section of genetic pattern similarity. Lastly, the theory also concerns itself with the notion of the voice of color (Trowbridge, 431). This is due to the belief that historical experiences of oppression have made people of color capable of being more vocal to speak out about racism as compared to their counterparts of white origin.
In conclusion, even though Critical Racism Theory seeks to eliminate racial oppression in its broader goal of dealing with oppression, it insists that race is not the only contributing factors to disempowerment, but there are other factors such as sex, sexual orientation, national origin, etc. To eliminate oppression, the approach has to be multi-dimensional.
Work Cited
Trowbridge J. David. A History of the United States. Digital All Access Pass. Volume 2,v. 1.0