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#296 – Douglas Murray: Racism, Marxism, and the War on the West

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Is Critical Race Theory a Metaphor?

I think engineering is, I'm sitting in a castle in the tallest tower with my pinky owl drinking my martini saying surely the peasants below will figure it all out. So not, so let's draw a line now between engineering and science. This metaphor has gone too far. Can you explain to this engineer what critical race theory is? Is there tradition? Is there history? What is good about it? What is bad about it? It is a tradition. It is a history. It started in the law roughly in the 1970s and some of the American Academy. It always aimed to be an activist philosophy. People deny that now. As I've cited in the war on the

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