These "attempts" at a sophisticated straw man fallacy to avoid addressing the male victimhood complex against feminism in skepticism. SAD!
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I agree, and if they'd concluded with that, I wouldn't have had anything to say, but it came down much harder on gender studies than that.
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Much of that "bad" gender studies stuff is misrepresented. The rest is no different than obscurantism in other fields.
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No, its not. The humanities abound with it.
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I think academia is full of pointless writing on many things caused by the obsession with publish or parish.
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Doubtless but there's been a worrying shift in ideology & theory with postmodernism.
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And has been used to proclaim the death of postmodernism, when at best it would have confirmed the need for better postmodernism.
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What? PoMo is far from dead! Who claimed a hoax could kill it? If only that were true.
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Peter, the co-author, and others have claimed this proves PoMo is terrible and should be destroyed, which would be socially regressive.
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PoMo is terrible.The hoax alone doesn't prove it & no-one claims it does.
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Many prominent skeptics claimed exactly that. PoMo is not terrible, it's just a vague and misunderstood term for critical analysis of cultur
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People are very precise about what they are criticising. I set out the biggest problems I see here.https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …
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I'm glad that you are precise in your criticisms, really prominent individuals have been less so. Thank you for your work and dialogue here.
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Not really. They are also highlighting specific problems. Science-denial, radical constructivism, idpol, intense sensitivity to language
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