My impression is that more and more critical voices are popping up and speaking out. Or is that just me focusing more on these critical voices and surrounding myself with them?
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I think so!
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The problem is epistemological. Science is based on a process of testing and checking which can be repeated and communicated. Critical theory is based on personal narrative interpreting evidence according to an a priori scheme, just like pseudo-science like Intelligent Design.
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This 1996 article by Jeffrey Rosen explains the epistemological problems of the Critical Race Theory approach to the legal system. It's enlightening, even when one applies it to politics and not just law: https://newrepublic.com/article/74070/the-bloods-and-the-crits …
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I'm calling for a kind of "New Realism" movement in academia to oppose political/social PoMo, especially in the humanities. Fact-based, willing to debate and not accepting hurt feelings as arguments.
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and, hence, is a religion that invites to scientific debunking before the writings of derrida and foucault get biblical status and dragged along the centuries :)
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