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#466 Racism and Critical Race Theory - Edward Feser

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Philosopher Edward Feser has read the major texts of critical race theory and has some concerns. He joins us for a discussion of his newest book, All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and maybe we’ll be helping with the living part today because, among the great plagues of the modern world, the many things that make modern life burdensome, is racism. It’s not necessarily a plague tha…

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Hello, and welcome to Focus. The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding, and defending

0:10.8

your Catholic faith. I'm Psy Kelly at your host, and it will be helping with the living part today,

0:16.5

because among the great plagues of the modern world, you know, the many things that make modern life

0:24.8

burdensome is racism. It's not necessarily a plague that has always plagued humanity. It seems

0:31.7

to be a particularly modern affliction, and one, we just can't seem to wean ourselves off to get

0:37.6

away from. Emerging now is something called critical race theory, which has, as it's stated,

0:45.1

gold, the ending of racism, but will it work? And is it really humane? Does it really

0:52.4

comport with a proper understanding of how human beings should treat one another? Our guests this

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hour is the perfect guy to answer these questions, and more. It's got a brand new book out called

1:02.9

All One in Christ, a Catholic critique of racism, and critical race theory, Dr. Edward Fasers,

1:09.9

professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He's published

1:14.4

extensively, both in academic journals and in the popular press. In fact, the National Review

1:19.4

called him one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy, Dr. Faser. Thank you for being here

1:24.0

with us. Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. So among the things that you start with in the book

1:30.4

is an idea that I have to admit I had not thought about, and that is that you could make scientific

1:35.7

arguments against racism, saying, for example, like comparing IQs and saying we're all generally

1:42.0

in the same field or doing whatever scientific comparison, genetic comparisons, for example,

1:46.5

and all that. But that actually wouldn't be an adequate basis for making a strong opposition to

1:53.4

racism. Is part of what you're doing here trying to give us a strong foundation on which to rest

1:58.8

are opposition to racism? Absolutely. And as I emphasize in the book, the church's own condemnation

2:05.4

of racism has always appealed to much deeper considerations than biological science could either

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confirm or deny. Specifically, the church takes the condemnation of racism to rest both in human

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