Most students are not crazed far-left loons but an ideological bias manifesting in authoritarianism and censorship in universities does exist & does need addressing. In same way, far-right ethnonationalism is an extreme fringe but there still needs to be people looking at it.
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This is (indirectly) what James and I wrote about in our manifesto re: existential polarisation.
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Recognising tha vast majority of people are not extremist loons is essential. But there is also a tendency to minimise & even excuse the loons on your own side because the loons on the other side seem so much more dangerous & in doing so, internalise some of your side's lunacy
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"We don't need to worry about a few crazy leftist students when ethnonationalism is rising & there's a lunatic in the White House.' "We don't need to worry about a few neo-nazi loons when major institutions with great cultural power including universities are going nuts."
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I think we do need to worry about all of that but also try to avoid polarisation and recognise that most people are not lunatics. As a leftie, I think we need to both point out the worst of the right & fix the worst of the left if we want the left electable again.
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Yeah I agree that I don't think writing articles of pomo is addressing the most important issues in society, but you are free to focus on anything you like. Can you give me an example of an academic advocating for a position that you think is being overly influenced by pomo?
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Many, yes. Intersectionality and associated ideas of diversity and inclusion is a major one. Kimberle Crenshaw. Allison Bailey. Alison Wolf. I recently addressed this at PSU. It was protested. But individual academics are only part of the problem.
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