![]() Yet when such generalizations are made about persons of color, it is dismissed as racist. whites) and their behaviors and cultural practices. Then there’s the special pleading: CRT advocates make generalizations about racial groups (i.e. ![]() That’s an especially apt question when the racial grievance industry is making its luminaries into celebrities and millionaires. “Why not regard too as merely another mark for the ‘will to power’?” asks Feser. Yet if that’s true, then CRT itself is also not objective reality, but only the subjective opinions and emotions of its proponents. For example, a common claim in CRT circles is that objectivity is impossible. “The general problem with ad hominem fallacies… is that they simply change the subject,” says Feser.įeser also highlights CRT advocates’ use of special pleading - that’s applying an arbitrary or unjustified double standard. That presents a problem for Kendi and company, given that most of their claims are based on various logical fallacies, particularly ad hominem and poisoning the well. It is simply a matter of elementary logic that the truth of a claim, and the contingency of an argument, stand or fall completely independently of the character or interests of the person making it, its historical or cultural origins, the context in which it is made, and any other such considerations. In response, Feser observes that CRT is “essentially a reformulation of some of the main themes of Marxism and postmodernism in racial terms.” He cites, for example, the Marxist trope that anyone who opposes communism must be fascist. The stakes are high, as underscored by Kendi’s Manichean rhetoric: “One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist.” Other CRT writers have suggested “campus speech codes,” “tort remedies for racist speech,” and “economic boycotts” against businesses that are not minority owned or fail to align with CRT ideology. Some CRT activists propose penalizing white students because of their white privilege, given that “racial discrimination is not inherently racist,” as Kendi has argued. Of course, that’s only one example of CRT advocates’ rhetorical manipulation and double standards. ![]() Racism, declares DiAngelo, “pervades every vestige of our reality.” And, as those who question CRT’s assertions soon learn, those who deny their racism only confirm their racism by doing so. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. ![]() “The fundamental assertion of CRT,” writes Feser, “is that racism absolutely permeates the nooks and crannies of every social institution and the psyches of every individual… Nonwhite people suffocate under a regime of ‘racist power,’ ‘white privilege,’ and indeed ‘white supremacy.’” He cites the usual rogue’s gallery of CRT celebrities, including Ibram X. Anderson call it “the best book I’ve read on the topic.” Though coming from a Catholic perspective - the title is All One in Christ - Feser’s short book contains several excellent chapters that define, dissect, and ultimately demolish CRT. That assertion is the least defensible of Brown’s claims, as philosophy professor Ed Feser’s new book, a critique of racism and Critical Race Theory, makes clear. Accusations of racism have lost all meaning. ![]()
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