Critical Race Theory and Campus Antisemitism
The month of May has mercifully arrived. That means the end of the spring semester nationwide at our university asylums. It also means that the campus crazies are heading home to harangue their parents and hometowns with the crackpot theories they’ve learned at their liberal colleges over the last year. Mom and Dad can see what that $60K tuition bought them. Maybe it will purchase the vandalizing of a statue in the town square this summer.
The guys and gals and various other gender identities at places like Columbia, UCLA, and George Washington University can now gear up for the next grand event on the activist calendar: Pride Month.
This year, however, they added a new “ism” to their roster of activism: antisemitism. They might be tempted to list that new skill in their resume under the heading “DEI,” but I suggest they list it under “CRT.” After all, critical race theory has provided the critical superstructure for this new antisemitism.
The Not-So-Secret Marxist Roots of CRT
Critical race theory hails from Marxist critical theory. In the text of the Wikipedia definition of CRT, you won’t see a single mention of Marxism, though the first paragraph correctly notes that CRT derives from critical theory. It states: “The word critical in the name is an academic reference to critical theory.” Interestingly, if you click the “critical theory” hyperlink in that definition, you’ll magically discover dozens of references to Marxism there. That’s because critical theory comes out of Marxism, namely, the Frankfurt School, and so does its bastard son, critical race theory. The Wikipedia makers can do their damnedest to purge mentions of Marxism from their whitewashed definition of CRT; in fact, quite strikingly, Wikipedia’s customary “edit” function is unavailable for the CRT entry. The gatekeepers don’t want anyone messing with their cleaned-up definition. Nonetheless, that concealment eventually falls apart under the truth of reality. (Watch this discussion of CRT and its Marxist roots that we did at Grove City College in September 2022.)
CRT borrows from Marxism simply and clearly: It takes the basic model of oppressed vs. oppressor in classical Marxism, which was the proletariat vs. the bourgeoisie, and replaces the two classes with two races, white vs. black. (RELATED: Tragic Farce: The Origins and Destiny of Critical Theory)
That’s the Marxist framework. It’s acknowledged by anyone who non-emotionally studies this stuff — and those who do should be very troubled by its current application to the Jewish people of Israel and their struggle against Hamas terrorism.
