So often 'overstating the problem' means 'focusing on a problem I don't find the most important.' That's fine but I don't think we all need to focus on the same problems. Specialisation is good. Speak to what you know. I know pomo thinking in academia.https://twitter.com/opticon_pan/status/974579333795753984 …
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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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Totally agree, that is a fear that I have and the reason I try to find concrete examples that will challenge my conclusions. I just find it frustrating when the examples I'm presented with are kids at a college or some twitter users. Does that make sense?
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Examples of what, exactly? I wrote this piece recently which talks about the ways in which postmodern ideas have filtered out of universities into activism, mainstream leftist social conscience & wider society.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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Do not abuse the names of roses, loons and bees, please. And don't pluck 'm either.
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In English, please.
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