We were not taught how to think critically, but how to express our feelings of victimhood. We were indoctrinated.
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I had the same thing in the UK. Why liberalism humanism is wrong and postmodernism is right.
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But the ignorance! The geneaology of postmodern thinking is traced to the *far-right* European counter-Enlightenment.
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I'm writing something about it right now.
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Great! Have you read Kenan Malik? He talks a lot about that too....
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Yes, I'm citing his most recent essay.
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The one about "decolonizing our minds"?
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THis one. Maybe its not his most recent. Actually, it almost certainly isn't.https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/not-post-truth-as-too-many-truths/ …
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I know I mostly joke around on Twitter but I really understand your frustration. Common sense and reason is not respected enough
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Personally I think what has happened to left has been long slow weakening from within. Might take decades to restore, if at all.
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...and I got into conflicts with my colleagues for doing this....
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Or we would read all of Foucault's critique of Kant and the Enlightenment without reading more than two pages of Kant.
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We would only read post-structuralist thinkers. We were never exposed to the views of their critics.
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it's all about the absolutes. The nuance of reason doesn't quite cut through...
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The extraordinary thing is they claim to be engaging in "critical thinking"...
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Also, I refused to grade my students based on how well they repeated the party line, but on how well they constructed arguments.
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But I always sensed there was something wrong with this approach and read alternative books.
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Absolutely. I can honestly say that my PhD training in a US university was terrible.
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