In a recent post, right-wing social commentator and former academic Matt Goodwin announced that he had “just exposed how the British Psychological Society (BPS) had been captured by 'anti-racist racists'.”

This post is the latest in a series in which Goodwin reveals that various institutions in the UK (including the BBC and the NHS) had been “fully captured by radical if not extreme ideologies.”

One might nitpick over the term “radical” – but if Goodwin is saying that most powerful institutions in Britain are dominated by woke postmodern ideologies, one can readily agree with him.

Goodwin’s latest post – by citing numerous telling passages from BPS publications – shows beyond a doubt that the BPS has adopted wholesale the postmodern ideology known as “critical race theory.”

Goodwin appears shocked by his discovery – but it should not surprise anyone interested in the development of the ideology of critical race theory over the past five decades to find that a professional institution like the BPS has been infected by it.

The march of various postmodern ideologies through universities and other institutions in the West commenced in the late 1960s in the United States, and has intensified exponentially since then – and the literature analyzing this phenomenon (both academic and popular) is vast.

It would have been more surprising if Goodwin had discovered that the BPS did not embrace and promulgate critical race theory.

But Goodwin’s apparent naivety does not end there. Instead of engaging in a critical analysis of the phenomenon that he has discovered, he remains content to draw the trite conclusion that critical race theory is “racist” and that those who adhere to it are “racists” – without, however, defining either term.

In arguing in this way, Goodwin has adopted precisely the same mode of intellectual disputation practiced by those postmodern ideologues that he (correctly) criticizes and condemns. Goodwin himself has no doubt been branded a “racist” by these very same woke intellectuals.

Goodwin, just like his........

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