Cornell professor warns universities are eliminating meaning of 'objective truth' from classrooms with CRT An Ivy League biology professor is sounding the alarm on how critical race theory curricula is erasing the meaning and even existence of "objective truth" from classrooms and teaching a generation of students to treat the truth "fast and loose." "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," associate professor at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science Randy Wayne told Fox News Digital in a phone 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." "And I'm afraid that's just where the universities are going. Training people to treat the truth fast and loose in order to obtain just what you want. And in the case of the universities, what they want is what they call ‘social justice.’ And they're willing to pay to play fast and loose with the truth to get it." "Critical race theory, which is based on the postmodernist assumption that there is no truth, there's no objective truth, it's just a no-starter for me," Wayne said. "You could create any fantasy land you want, it has nothing to do with reality. And, frankly, the way it's used, it causes fear and terror in all the people that are afraid to answer the mantra the way they believe it should be answered."
Cornell doesn't teach CRT although I've heard there have been issues raised in faculty guides but not about race along with the same in other situations. Thus, I believe it is just an issue in a discussion by law students, political science students and/or debate teams. Then again, maybe CRT is an issue down the road that "may" (could) be taught at Cornell and this professor was just speaking out (warning) due to other situations not related to "race". I do realize its been around since the 1970s although it was probably as much of an issue as worrying about a meteorite hitting the planet earth. Yet, it was a rebirth from a high school debate team challenge out of California and an incident by some college student embalming someone at a funeral home or something like that at his parent's funeral home business. Anyways, CRT seems more like something in a collegiate debate team competition but not something being taught in schools because it's not. Thus, the issue must then be a sentence in some book that has been read in school for many decades or an issue raised in a political debate out of the Black Lives Matter movement. In high school, on my debate team, there were a few debates about reparations for the way Asian Americans were treated during WWII, reparations about the way Jewish people were treated in WWI & WWII, reparations about the way Indigenous people were treated during the residential years & the abuses of the Indian act in the redistribution of the land, and reparations about Black Americans for slavery. Those are intellectual debates that should be left in law schools, political science classes, and debate competitions...nothing more considering that's how it all started...except the funeral home story is funny and creepy. Why are people freaking out about it or labeling it CRT, especially someone that's a biology professor at Cornell ? He should be more concerned about questioning a student about his 100% correct answers on a difficult exam and not doing the same to another student that's white and that also achieved a perfect score...another story for another day. wrbtrader