Liberal Brown student here, and I promise you, we’re not all like this.
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The intemperate ideas expressed in the letter are from critical theory.(More specifically, intersectionality) Of course, not all Brown students are exposed to the theory; & even those who are don’t act out in extreme ways. But the illiberalism & paranoia are part of the theory.
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Replying to @CHSommers @JSchapiro_SBR and
A bit silly to map a complicated academic field onto contemporary politics. Name a passage of Foucault or Baudrillard where free speech was denounced. I’ll wait
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Replying to @jcfrancisco @CHSommers and
Foucault claimed that discourses create social reality, that there is only one episteme in any culture & that it is a product of power - power knowledge. Surely, you see the logical connection between this understanding of power dynamics & the perception of speech as dangerous?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CHSommers and
Sure. I also remember being taught to read every thinker critically. (and I went to one of these super “PC” colleges!) It’s not the coursework that’s the problem.
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Replying to @jcfrancisco @CHSommers and
No, its much more insidious than that. There has been a huge epistemic shift which has affected society and the way it understands power, knowledge, truth & identity. The first PoMos just articulated this and so epitomise it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @jcfrancisco and
A good parallel is with religion. How many people will oppose LGBT rights, reproductive freedom, STEM cell research etc because they are Christian, Muslim etc but never studied theology at university or even read their holy texts. The ideas are internalised in their culture.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CHSommers and
Ha, high five for mentioning religion at the same time
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Replying to @jcfrancisco @CHSommers and
Ideology really does affect culture. I came into this because someone linked one of my essays. It is the one which explains how these ideas became mainstream.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @CHSommers and
I totally agree with you, but at the same time students should be exposed to all sorts of ideological currents in school, as long as it’s in a critical light. I would say my own school DIDN’T expose me to enough of that, I was politicized more by virtue of twitter
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I'm very glad to hear it. Mine was also quite low key. I was able to express my disagreement with postmodernism and even of feminism but submitting essays on either caused me to get such poor grades I would have failed had I persisted.
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