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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It is this hostility to intellectual opponents that I disagree with and find to be no less a forn of "moral panic" than the "identity politics" scourge you claim has invaded universities. I'll let this be my last word on where we disagree. I'm sure we agree on much else.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
We do have to address problems & argue about them. You can call it hostility but, in reality, it is by vigorous debate that we make progress. This is becoming a narrow, moralistic orthodoxy & it's increasingly difficult to address it w/out being no-platformed, threatened or fired
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I wouldn't complain at all if 'my opponents' did what I do. Made arguments which could be engaged with. I will just do that. It's a problem when censorship, threats, firing, accusations of verbal violence etc happen. And I defend the university.https://areomagazine.com/2018/03/23/a-principled-defense-of-the-university/ …
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