I agree with Crenshaw's use of the term. I think it misleading to paint it as an ideology invading humanities departments. I think social justice and identity politics ought not be used as derisive descriptions--and that being unreasonable and irrational are different things.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
OK, then we disagree. I don't think politics linked to postmodern theory is the way to go and that universality should be abandoned for group identity. I've written several essays on how it's invading universities & the last time I spoke at one about it, I got protested.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
I'm not a postmodernist, It's possible to take intersectionality seriously without abandoning liberalism. Again, I'm literally on a watchlist created by a conservative group sponsoring at least one of your events on a university campus.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
OK, but Crenshaw was and this permeates intersectionality. If you have a liberal version of it, it's probably similar to the one I posited in my conclusion.
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Again, your being on a Turning Point watchlist might tell us something about them or something about you or both but it doesn't tell us whether intersectionality is taking on a quasi-religious status in parts of society & especially in academia.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
What it tells us is that it's possible to cherry pick examples of intolerance, and dissinformation, in both directions.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
Huh? We certainly know that that is possible & also common.
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We wrote a whole thing about that and how it triggers existential polarisation.https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
This is all very well and good, but it isn't true that what you call postmosernism has "invaded" universities, a claim at tension with your claim that the "postmodern" left is a fringr minority. Furthermore you seem to imply that theorists tou disagree with shouldn't be taught.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
This explains better but my book will address this in much more detail.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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I do think they shouldn't be taught but I would not advocate banning them ever. I advocate the reasonable majority getting a better understanding of what is happening and why and marginalising the mad ideas.
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