When you're too cool for the enduring chill

I wonder if many Catholic intellectuals have a crystalline "respect" for historic systemic racism, in much the same way they respect the "objective" historical split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic church. It's a convenient avenue to maintain your status as spectator, and to treat your silent complicity like it holds the Great Pending Answer we're all supposed to be hanging on.

In other words, in the same way they regard as nominalism any act or gesture that would move towards union between east and west, because "objective history" which needs to be "respected", so they regard as a form of nominalism any acts to make change in society, to seek to be anti-racist, to take down Confederate statues, etc.

It would certainly be consistent with their nominalistic impulse to over-crystallize their ideology to the point that they feel any approach of reality as a chaotic vertigo of confusion and disaster, or alternatively to feel it as an embarrassing downgrading of their superclear intellect to the messy hordes of lost sheeple.