Recently, the Pope of Moscow, Doug Wilson, did a podcast on race. Doug is particularly bad on this issue precisely because he is not as bad as most Evangelical Ministers on this subject. People can flock to Doug’s banner and think that somehow they are being distinct from the broader culture when in point of fact instead all they have accomplished is not work out the implications of their principles as well as the broader culture has. Doug accepts the principles of modernity on race but he casts his agreement with a kind of retro flavor that allows him to claim that he disagrees with the principles of modernity when in point of fact he merely has failed to be consistent.
Anyway, a friend of mine, C. Merle Davidson, wrote an analysis piece revealing Wilson’s shortcomings here,
https://tribaltheocrat.com/2021/01/a-few-rejoinders-to-doug-wilsons-trending-vid-racism-and-slavery-in-the-west/
I could only wish that I had written this piece. I agree with everything that Davidson offers. I listened to this same podcast by the Pope of Moscow and on this subject, Wilson eliminates the nature side of the nurture vs. nature argument all the while saying he didn’t want to get into the “nurture vs. nature” argument. His whole podcast presupposes the nurture side. We know this because Wilson reduces race to be solely about skin color which tells us that Wilson believes that being White, or Black or Yellow, or Brown, is the sole result of the propositions believed by these people between their ears. The dirty little secret is that Wilson believes that culture creates race whereas it is just as legitimate to contend that race creates culture. Being white or black is solely about the propositions that people believe. Wilson is Gnostic and ought to be ignored on the subject of race and ethnicity.
The biggest howler in this podcast is Wilson’s insistence that race doesn’t exist. This is a howler that is gaining currency everywhere in our pomo culture. Wilson embraces breeds (ethnicities) but not races. Tell that to a forensic scientist or to the Pharmaceutical companies creating race-specific drugs. Try telling that to the black child who needs a bone marrow transplant. Try telling that to the sickle cell anemia society of America.
