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#466 Racism and Critical Race Theory - Edward Feser

Catholic Answers Focus

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Critical Race Theory - Is Catholicism an Answer to Racism?

Catholic social teaching is among other things, a deep and principal opposition to the idea that social order is made up of groups that are inherently hostile to one another. The church condemned the Marxist view as somehow a war of inherently opposed classes. That's precisely one of the central themes of critical race theory - that whiteness is of its very nature hostile to every other race. And so I know it's people, they resort much too quickly, especially on social media, to Nazi comparisons. But you can't blame the messenger because if you look at critical race theory and you're looking for some ideological parallel to it, the closest parallel is not actually Marxism, it's national socialism.

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