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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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.
@opticon_pan is right to be concerned about people maximising the lunatic fringe on the other side and presenting it as the whole of the other side. They're all Nazis/far-left loons.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
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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