Yes, you are seeing campus lunacy which is produced by a distillation of intersectional feminist & critical race theory (among others) and pushed in a simplified activist form on campuses trading on the good name of the civil rights movement, 2nd wave liberal feminism & Gay Pride
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt and
I appreciate that. However, I'm still stuck on how theory becomes adopted without the scholarship of said theorists being 'cared about'
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Replying to @jackmurphylive @GodDoesnt and
Because the ideology is cared about. Academics and activists can get condensed forms of their 'theories' accepted and complied with due to social pressure even tho almost no-one is reading their stuff and the 'scholarship' is largely an illusion.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @jackmurphylive and
This is the problem that James is trying to highlight. The belief that these ideas are based on a body of scholarship is false. The vast majority of it is completely ignored and yet key ideas of the *ideology* still possess great cultural power and this presented as scholarly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @jackmurphylive and
A useful analogy is with religion. Take Islam for an example, We know that much, much complicated Islamic theology is written but we also know that most fundamentalist Muslims haven't read any of it. Or even the Quran. They rely instead on a few key ideas built into an ideology.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @jackmurphylive and
In countries where Islam is the dominant cultural force (which is why I chose it), the Islamic scholars and leaders possess great power to influence policies because they are regarded generally as 'good' and 'knowledgeable' even by ppl who haven't read them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt and
Do you share James's sense that the hegemony of the feminist ideology is too entrenched to be overturned or at least abridged somewhat?
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Replying to @jackmurphylive @GodDoesnt and
I am usually more optimistic than James! But I see the same problem he does and also think we have a long way to go to unpick the assumptions and norms we have talked ourselves into.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt and
Well, we all need to keep doing what we're doing if that is ever going to happen. So keep it up!
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Replying to @jackmurphylive @HPluckrose and
I thank
@QuilletteM for introducing me to reasonable anti-feminists who are (I assume) also pro-female. My circle is not typically so nuanced.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Helen Pluckrose
Well, thank you. I say this but we prob mean same thing. If you are concerned abt current feminism but support equal opportunities & recognise overlapping distributions of traits & feel men & women can have relationships of mutual liking & respect, we do.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/728750955995529216 …
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