My notes on The academic roots of post-truth society with @HPluckrose @JamesHeartfield @bobeaglestone http://bit.ly/2xvGt07 #BattleofIdeas
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Replying to @Nico_Macdonald @HPluckrose and
The influence of Foucault, Derrida etc may well have influenced the fact free politics of intellectual elites like Frank Furedi et al but...
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
... the elephant in the
#BattleofIdeas Barbican is the influence of the right wing media in undermining public debate and democracy.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
I don't think that is an elephant in any room. Much written on this & argued for this. But this debate was about academia's involvement.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Agreed not part of this debate. Spiked team choose conference topics to suit their agenda. Role of right wing press is elephant in agenda.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
Is it OK with you if people focus on issues other than right-wing causes sometimes? Look at left-wing ones too?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nico_Macdonald and
Core Spiked authors are obsessed with attacking left wing issues and ignore or reject any issue that undermines their libertarian agenda.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @Nico_Macdonald and
I don't know that that's true. It was Conatus who introduced me to that & they are Progressive. I am not libertarian.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Colin_Lawson and
But even if it was, is it OK with you that a Libertarian group pursue their own political agenda?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Colin_Lawson and
Spiked: used to be (genocide denying) communists attacking society; stopped being communists but forgot to stop attacking=headless chickens.
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Well, they seem to tolerate me OK despite my being left-wing remainer & invited you despite you seeming to loathe them. Could be worse.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BobEaglestone and
My feelings towards them (distrust of their motives rather than loathing) is a function of reading their articles.
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Replying to @Colin_Lawson @HPluckrose and
I find it easier to engage in arguments about specifics not generalities. For me, the Battle of Ideas hosts the most open debates I know of.
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