CRT is not alone in rejecting the idea of objective truth, as that is the essence of relativist theories. The particular danger posed by CRT to the institutions that have embraced it, including public offices fulfilling executive, legislative, and judicial functions, does not simply arise from CRT insisting that you have “your truth” and I have “my truth.” The bigger problem is that, in CRT, truth varies based on one’s racial identity. Thus, in CRT the concept of objective truth is treated as a Western value derived from the “ethics of whiteness.” For example, Charles Mills argues that the concept of “white ignorance” denotes “a group-based cognitive handicap” affecting white people. According to Mills, black people by contrast have “epistemic privilege” which enables them to avoid the “epistemic pitfalls” of those classified as “white knowers.”

In his introduction to Human Action, Ludwig von Mises rejects “the polylogism of the racists.” He describes that epistemological approach as one in which “there exists between various races a difference in the logical structure of mind.” From that premise, it follows that each race has “a logic of its own.” Mises also rejects Marxist class polylogism, which “asserts that man’s thinking is determined by his class affiliation [and that] every social class has a logic of its own,” from which it follows that “the product of thought cannot be anything else than an ‘ideological disguise’ of the selfish class interests of the thinker.” For the same reasons he also rejects historical polylogism, which “asserts that the logical structure of human thought and action is liable to change in the course of historical evolution.” Mises warns that, although the influence of all these forms of polylogism spreads beyond the field of economics, with implications for all disciplines, including the physical and biological sciences, nevertheless “it is the sciences of human action that they really have in view.” Their real target is economic science. He observes that the central aim of polylogists is to reject the notion that any universal principles can be derived in relation to human beings:

They say that it is an illusion to believe that scientific research can achieve results valid for people of all eras, races, and social classes, and they take pleasure in disparaging certain physical and biological theories as bourgeois or Western.