Dick Sztanyo
The decade of the 1960’s left a deep mark on the culture of the United States and, in many ways, the rest of the world! It was a tidal wave of change from which we have never fully recovered. Some of the after effects are being felt even today, in various gender issues, Marxist influenced protest movements, and indoctrination like “Critical Race Theory” (hereafter identified as CRT). This false theory is being smuggled into our educational systems nationwide, various large companies, and even our military.
CRT must not be confused with the Civil Rights Movement of the decade of the 60’s, because CRT turns out to be the Civil Rights Movement in reverse. We are being pressured once again to discriminate people on the basis of skin color. Tommy Curry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, defines CRT as:
The view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it.
CRT starts with an assumption. It assumes that,
Racism is normal and permanent, and the problem is primarily that people—particularly white people—are failing to see, acknowledge, and address it. . . We are to assume that racism is always taking place and our job is to examine situations for evidence of it. (Cynical, 132-133)
In the series of articles, I tested this theory for logical argumentation, for a knowledge of the truth, and for ethical considerations. What I found was that CRT failed to meet every test to which I subjected it.
For example, in the area of logical argumentation, several fallacies are committed, where no conclusion can be proved at all. Furthermore, no argument is presented deductively, the conclusion of which would be “Therefore, CRT is true.” Neither is any inductive argument presented, complete with serious laboratory type investigations and peer reviewed studies, which would yield the conclusion, “Therefore, it is highly probable that CRT is true.”
Next, I tested CRT with reference to a knowledge of the truth. Jesus said that, you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free (John 8:32). Either we can know the truth, or we cannot know the truth. There is no middle ground. However, CRT advocates, heavily influenced by both pragmatism and postmodernism, hold to a subjective knowledge of truth, rather than an absolute-objective knowledge of the same. In other words, their view of truth is that it is man-made, and supported only by those who feel the same way as they do. So, they attempt to force people to accept CRT, by guilting them into compliance, or else by influencing the political establishment to favor CRT, and the sensitivity training that goes along with it. If a person denies that he/she is racist, they say, “that only proves you are racist.” If a person says that they are racist, then that also proves their case (so they say). At any rate, you are racist no matter what (according to CRT advocates). I am only asking them to prove it, not simply say it! Please prove that I am a racist due to decisions that I have never made, am not making currently, and likely will never make in the future.
My third test for CRT proponents is the test of ethics. Ethics is simply the study of what is right and what is wrong. And, my question to them is, “am I guilty and therefore responsible for choices that I have never made, do not now make, and will never make in the future?” Or, is it possible that the ones who are truly guilty of promoting racism are the very ones who promote CRT?
All human beings are created in the image of Almighty God, and therefore, are valuable (see Ps. 8:4-8; Mark 8:36-37). We are part of one human family, and should not be divided or discriminated against regardless of our ethnic background. Moreover, the judge of all the earth (viz., God) does what is right (Gen. 18:25). And, He supports any and all efforts to do and teach what is right. It is definitely not right (and never has been) to seek to divide people into racial camps causing them to hate one another instead of loving one another (Matt. 22:37-40).
Finally, CRT fails every test of logical analysis, and proves itself to be a false view of life. Thus, I call on all responsible people to reject this terrible attempt to indoctrinate people in an extremely harmful way.
There is a series of five articles being published by the Warren Apologetics Center, under “Philosophical Foundations of Critical Race Theory.” You can access them there by searching www.warrenapologetics.org, under “critical race theory.”
WORKS CITED
Curry, Tommy. “Critical Race Theory,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
Pluckrose, Helen, and Lindsay, James. Cynical Theories. Durham, NC: Pitchstone Publishing, 2020.
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Vol. 22, Issue 23. Nov. 7, 2021