“The primary problem with CRT (Critical Race Theory) is that, like all postmodernist thought, it is corrosive not only to faith but also to reason. Traditional religion founds truth and morality on God and reason. The Enlightenment, on the other hand, rejected God, and instead attempts to found truth and morality on reason alone. The postmodernist response to the Enlightenment’s doomed attempt to found truth and morality on reason alone was not to return to the faith that the Enlightenment rejected, but instead to agree with the Enlightenment that faith was untenable (“God is dead, and we have killed him”), while also rejecting the Enlightenment’s embrace of reason as a replacement for faith. In sum, the Enlightenment rejected God and kept reason, while postmodernism rejects both God and reason and says claims of truth and morality are merely exercises of power.

That’s why, to a believer, critiques of CRT by atheist liberals like Helen Pluckrose often make a lot of sense, because liberals are right insofar as they argue that truth does exist and that reason helps us grasp it. But it’s also why postmodernist critiques of the Enlightenment often make sense to believers: because postmodernists are correct in pointing out that founding morality on reason alone is impossible, and that liberalism is merely a mirror image of the bourgeois values of 18th and 19th century European Christians which Enlightenment thinkers attempted to elevate to the status of universal truth while blowing up its epistemological foundation by rejecting God.”

~ Ismail Royer