Let me save you the time of reading any more books, or even watching any more mockumentaries about "whiteness" or "social justice" or "CRT."
Here is everything you need to know about "Whiteness" in the proverbial nutshell:
"Whiteness" as a term is just ciphered language for a set of cognitive features and worldview beliefs that Leftists reject. It has little or nothing to do with being white, other than, perhaps, its relation to European culture and, more specifically, Latin Christianity, which, according to CRT proponents is inherently evil and cannot be redeemed of its inherent corruption (its "original sinfulness").
Among the "supposedly" typical Eurocentric features that Leftists attack under the euphemism "whiteness" are things like: dichotomous thinking, rationalization, objectification, hyper-criticality, individuality, and meritocratic thought. Finally, there is the dreaded "desacralization" of nature. The first few relate to the idea that one can, through reason, come to know truths about the world, or even eternal Truths. The others, like meritocracy, imply there is a hierarchy of value in the world, and, perhaps, of Being itself (Aquinas' 5th way). Finally, desacralization is the idea that the European conception of God as transcendent is "problematic" and that it undermines our belief in the sacredness, or innate divinity, of nature itself. In other words, St. Paul writing in Romans 1:18-32 is being very, very "white." All animistic cultures are very non-white. Animism, in fact, is the most anti-racist religion possible.
Once one understands what "Whiteness" stands in for, one realizes that an attack on Whiteness is basically an attack on what has often been called "the medieval synthesis;" the synthesis of biblical Revelation with Greek philosophy. The most "white" of all historical exemplars of "Whiteness" would be people like St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas. Specifically what is most hated by CRT proponents, and their Queer Theorist allies, are the sexual norms associated with the Hebrew Bible, and the metaphysical commitments of the Platonists.
The underlying philosophical assumptions of critical theorists being that sex and sexual norms are nothing more than socially constructed, time-bound and oppressive religious laws which are aimed at controlling the natural inclinations of human beings as pleasure seeking creatures, and the rejection of universals, or essences, which entails the elevation of language as the maker and shaper of reality (i.e., whoever controls language, creates reality). In short, man, not God, speaks reality into existence.
The inevitable result of the dismantling of "Whiteness" in a western culture is the return to paganism.
The Kirkwood Center
Let me save you the time of reading any more books, or even watching any more mockumentaries about "whiteness" or "social justice" or "CRT."
Here is everything you need to know about "Whiteness" in the proverbial nutshell:
"Whiteness" as a term is just ciphered language for a set of cognitive features and worldview beliefs that Leftists reject. It has little or nothing to do with being white, other than, perhaps, its relation to European culture and, more specifically, Latin Christianity, which, according to CRT proponents is inherently evil and cannot be redeemed of its inherent corruption (its "original sinfulness").
Among the "supposedly" typical Eurocentric features that Leftists attack under the euphemism "whiteness" are things like: dichotomous thinking, rationalization, objectification, hyper-criticality, individuality, and meritocratic thought. Finally, there is the dreaded "desacralization" of nature. The first few relate to the idea that one can, through reason, come to know truths about the world, or even eternal Truths. The others, like meritocracy, imply there is a hierarchy of value in the world, and, perhaps, of Being itself (Aquinas' 5th way). Finally, desacralization is the idea that the European conception of God as transcendent is "problematic" and that it undermines our belief in the sacredness, or innate divinity, of nature itself. In other words, St. Paul writing in Romans 1:18-32 is being very, very "white." All animistic cultures are very non-white. Animism, in fact, is the most anti-racist religion possible.
Once one understands what "Whiteness" stands in for, one realizes that an attack on Whiteness is basically an attack on what has often been called "the medieval synthesis;" the synthesis of biblical Revelation with Greek philosophy. The most "white" of all historical exemplars of "Whiteness" would be people like St. Augustine or St. Thomas Aquinas. Specifically what is most hated by CRT proponents, and their Queer Theorist allies, are the sexual norms associated with the Hebrew Bible, and the metaphysical commitments of the Platonists.
The underlying philosophical assumptions of critical theorists being that sex and sexual norms are nothing more than socially constructed, time-bound and oppressive religious laws which are aimed at controlling the natural inclinations of human beings as pleasure seeking creatures, and the rejection of universals, or essences, which entails the elevation of language as the maker and shaper of reality (i.e., whoever controls language, creates reality). In short, man, not God, speaks reality into existence.
The inevitable result of the dismantling of "Whiteness" in a western culture is the return to paganism.
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