If I forced myself to learn some neoclassical economics for a year, and made some kind paper on how actually blood mining is actually helping the Congo or something using some highly selective data and statistical manipulation and got it published and koach bros funded ....
We don't call to shut it down. Bad ideas are not beaten by being banned. They are beaten by losing credibility and becoming marginalised. This is how universities stopped using Christianity as an epistemology. See my timeline today. Also, not right-wing.
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I get that you don't want to get lumped in with the "cultural marxism" crowd, you feel like you did the work and get it, and certainly you will have you allies among the MLs, but when you insist on vague terms like "postmodernism" and "grievance studies" you might as well be JBP.
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We haven't been remotely vague. We've set out the problems we see and demonstrated them. It is up to you whether to read that or not.
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And these are the credible, rigorous very not at all reactionary folks who are part of the solution:https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1047736683502825472 …
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It's not like these fine gentlemen have any bad ideas
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1047523577019469825 …
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I agree that if you really want to overcome ideas you have to make them loose credibility but if you legitimately want to devalue them you have to do so by engaginging with them enough to pull off a transvaluation of them.
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That is essentially what last two centurys of philosophy theory and science has been doing with your unreformed enlightenment notions. (like that idea their are just "bad ideas" which can be "beating back", stamped shown the error in their ways by "facts, logic and reason."
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What your brand of cultural pessimism, criticism(without critique), and appeals to the common sense of the Pöbel can contribute to, are bans or marginalizations carried out by reactionary political forces, which may not kill necessary ideas but....
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....well see the early history of your precious enlightenment and liberalism.
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