Summary of Douglas Murray's The War on the West

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#1 The war on the West is constantly trying to demonize white people in order to delegitimize everything about the West.

#2 The past few years have seen a shift in how society treats race. While racism still exists, it is now viewed as one of the worst of human evils. People should be able to fulfill their potential unhampered by the chance of group characteristics.

#3 Critical race theory is a theory developed in academia that argues that almost everything in American life is influenced by race. As more academics began to see invisible racism, their popularity grew.

#4 CRT is a theory that was developed to tackle all forms of oppression at once, and it has been successful in doing so. It has no need for normal standards of evidence, as its assertions are based on interpretations and attitudes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822507760

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The war on the West is constantly trying to demonize white people in order to delegitimize everything about the West.

#2

The past few years have seen a shift in how society treats race. While racism still exists, it is now viewed as one of the worst of human evils. People should be able to fulfill their potential unhampered by the chance of group characteristics.

#3

Critical race theory is a theory developed in academia that argues that almost everything in American life is influenced by race. As more academics began to see invisible racism, their popularity grew.

#4

CRT is a theory that was developed to tackle all forms of oppression at once, and it has been successful in doing so. It has no need for normal standards of evidence, as its assertions are based on interpretations and attitudes.

#5

The hallmarks of CRT were present from the beginning. It was an absolute obsession with race as the primary means to understand the world and all injustice. They saw it both as the central issue of a free society and as being wielded negatively by all state institutions.

#6

The work of Crenshaw, Bell, and others in universities across America eventually made their way into popular entertainment, where they were embraced by many as truth.

#7

The idea that white people are all racist criminals is a far-fetched claim, but it is being asserted by people like Michael Eric Dyson, who wrote the foreword to DiAngelo’s book, and it is being accepted by many liberals.

#8

DiAngelo’s book sold over three-quarters of a million copies. And perhaps it was because of the acclaim and commercial success that DiAngelo was emboldened to make more extreme claims in her later interviews. In an interview on Amanpour and Company in 2018, she claimed that white people find racism exciting and enjoy indulging in it.

#9

The killing of George Floyd was not just something that happened in