“What is truth?” This well-known question is what Roman governor Pontius Pilate, infamously and perhaps cynically, asked of Jesus. Yet Truth is still under attack 2,000 years later, and, warns an Ivy League professor, one front in this war is critical race theory (CRT).
In fact, says Randy Wayne, associate professor at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, CRT curricula are being used to eliminate the concept of Objective Truth from classrooms.
“We’re supposed to be training people like biologists that will become doctors to make us healthier. Mechanical engineers that will build bridges or skyscrapers,” he told Fox News Digital in a telephone interview this month. “And if they are trained on a foundation that there is no truth, nobody wants to be operated on by such a surgeon, or drive over a bridge made by such an engineer.”
“Wayne, a self-described ‘squeaky wheel’ at the Ivy League institution, has been battling critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the school for the last year and a half, since he first noticed the faculty senate was discussing mandatory critical race theory training for faculty,” Fox informs.
Wayne said that, as a scientist and professor, it’s his duty to seek Truth and teach his students how to do likewise. According to Fox:
“Critical race theory, which is based on the postmodernist assumption that there is … no objective truth, it’s just a no[n]-starter for me,” Wayne said. “You could create any fantasy land you want, it has nothing to do with reality.”
What’s more, the very impetus for Cornell’s CRT embrace — which Wayne said was the 2020 death of drug-addled criminal George Floyd — itself reflects detachment from Truth. It’s not just that the university obviously operated based on the untruthful Floyd/BLM narrative, however. It’s also that it didn’t respond to a perceived moral problem by seeking to cultivate the tried and true virtue (which reflects Truth), but instead did the most unintellectual of things: embraced a fad.