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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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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