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Critical Race Theory ignores anti-Semitism – UnHerd

By Thomas A. Smith

CRT also gives short shrift to many other histories. Most working-class Americans, particularly outside the American South, had little contact with Black workers. Their struggles were not against African Americans but against the white factory owners who controlled capital. Working-class Americans or Brits of the last century do not fit easily into the role of oppressors, nor have they enjoyed the economic benefits CRT imputes to them by dint of racial privilege.

Also cast into what Trotsky famously called the dustbin of history are the family stories of most Americans, Canadians and Australians most of whom came to supply cheap labour. Engels writes about the Irish being demoralised by dirt and poverty , living in the worst slums of Victorian England.1 Whether in the United States or in Britain, Irish migrants were oppressed by their fellow whites. Although many Left-wing historians now downplay this repression, it was only in the middle of 20th Century that being Irish Catholic disappeared as a disqualification for the highest office, through the election of John F. Kennedy.

via unherd.com

When we grew up in Boise, Idaho in the 1960s and after, we were somewhat discriminated against as Catholics and we didn’t even know it. Our friends were mostly Catholic, we went to Catholic school, mostly, and as school kids at least we didn’t really associate with the kids at public school. We viewed them as threatening and mysterious. When my mother was growing up it was worse. The KKK was active in Idaho and presumably because there were few Blacks and Jews around, they focused their attentions on Catholics. My father recalled that the Klan actually burned a cross on my mother’s front yard, though she denied this, but I suspect my father was correct as my mother habitually lied about this sort of thing. JFK was regarded as a saint by Catholics in the early ’60s, my mom definitely included.

America is a great stew of minorities and the gravy is largely hatred, sad to say. My father, who was not Catholic, actually breached the rules by marrying my mother, who also breached the rules by marrying a Protestant. CRT is a lot of nonsense, of course, but so are most of the other stories we tell ourselves about how we got in our present mess.