To fail to challenge narrow intellectual orthodoxies within academia is to play into the hands of the anti-intellectual, anti-expertise populist right. That won't end well.
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I really need to write a thing for my fellow liberal Lefties who think that the way to defeat the populist Right is to defend or minimise the postmodern, anti-rational, identitarian, SocJus ideas on the Left rather than to honestly address them & strengthen the Left.
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Well, I mean this is pretty much what I have been writing about in different forms forever when I have addressed feminism, academia, politics but I need to spell out the strategic need for this.
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In our manifesto, we wrote about the problem of existential polarisation in which people internalise the bad ideas of their own side in order to present a united front against the perceived existentially bad ideas of the other side. Same principle repeats all over the place.
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"new highly politicized departments and programs were created virtually overnight - without the incremental construction of foundation and superstructure that had gone, for example, into the long development of the modern English department." - Pagliahttps://thesmartset.com/free-speech-the-modern-campus/ …
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