What I'd add to Jon's thread is that the last decade has seen an intensification of the use of populist frames to denigrate people working in higher education which is having real policy effects. Perfectly easy to make your criticism of higher ed without using that framing. https://twitter.com/jonmladd/status/1387482553968386048 …
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Not saying Carville wants to destroy universities - he works at two of them! But saying things like "people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people" furthers a narrative that is being used to attack univerities.https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1371597117626716163?s=20 …
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Don MoynihanVerified account @donmoynThis is a strikingly honest description of culture war politics: create a brand that evokes negative feelings regardless of the details or merits of the case. In other words, the goal is to create a *bias* one that short-circuits reasoning and automates a political response. pic.twitter.com/YryY0adQ7z11 replies 5 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
I've worked in higher ed for 20 years and there has never been a more hostile period. If you work in a public university in a red state there are real efforts to censor speech *using the framing Carville articulated.* This stuff matters.https://medium.com/arc-digital/the-new-war-on-woke-ced9fd3699b …
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There's lots of legitimate, interesting narratives that bad actors can take to further bad purposes. "Other people are using this frame badly so the frame is bad" is not a good argument.
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