Oh for the love of God... the academy stretches farther than the departments you obsess over. The ideological commitments of certain fields hardly spells doom for ALL of academia.
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Replying to @C_Kavanagh @ConceptualJames and
Exactly. And the target is not academia (nor all of the humanities/social sciences) but the 'voices of the oppressed' departments in the humanities and social sciences. When they are expelled from academia into left-wing think tanks, nothing of academic/scientific value is lost.
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Replying to @antiantioedipe @C_Kavanagh and
But here you repeat almost what we have publicly said, though I don't see the academic reforms starting yet. Tick, tock.
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Replying to @ConceptualJames @antiantioedipe and
Meanwhile, the egg looks more and more on the face of all of academe from the outside. The meme, which is where the big influence lies regarding public mood, is on "academia." Academics underestimate this to their peril, for their mechanism is institutional and requires support.
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Replying to @ConceptualJames @antiantioedipe and
James you are incredibly myopic. Do you not get that universities have departments of law, medicine, engineering, physics, linguistics, etc. And how the hell have you missed the rise of the Open Science movement?
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No but isn’t the tendency to equate everything you dislike to Nazis something that folks that follow James would tend to criticise? You don’t have to minimize the problem, just avoid hyperbolic catastrophising. See ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ for further details.
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The funny thing is that I actually think it's an extreme minority view, but the vast majority of that minority are pretty tireless activists who mostly work their way into administrative positions and then change policy through boring, administrative moves.
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Replying to @ConceptualJames @C_Kavanagh and
the gateway of sitting through boring meetings to effect change cannot be understated, it's an effective method of filtering out those that cannot handle things such as a 3 hr discussion on 'light pollution' at a king county democrats meeting. skip it, and you don't get power
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This is wet streets cause rain reasoning. The power is in the semi-secret alliance that leftists have with each other. They then "manipulate procedural outcomes" in a coordinated fashion *using the mechanism* of only holding decisive votes when no one else is present to gainsay.
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