A deep and trenchant analysis: Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity, by James Lindsay & Helen Pluckrosehttps://goo.gl/CMrDSM
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What I mean is he seems to believe that Americans & society were somehow better & more morally upright. The data do not agree.
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Why do you think so? The Better Angels of Our Nature seems to contradict this.
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His Amy Wax tweets, the implications of his tweets re: modernity, & his general tone when it comes to college students today.
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Amy Wax tweets? Many people worried abt college students today. They seem to want to take us back to racial segregation & female fragility
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First - I've never met a college student that is for either of those things. Second - we still live in a largely racially segregated society
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Good for you. However, there is much evidence of students demanding separate spaces & claiming that women can't deal with words & ideas.
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There's much evidence that students support free speech. https://www.knightfoundation.org/media/uploads/publication_pdfs/FreeSpeech_campus.pdf … The work on student "fragility" is weak at best.
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Oh yes! They exist too & are almost certainly greater in number. We argue this in manifesto. Doesn't stop the problem being a problem tho.
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