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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I agree, I think you and I would just quibble over whether the authoritarian left or the ethnonationalist right are more of a threat to human flourishing.
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Not unless you think the authoritarian left is. I think it's clear the right is much more scary right now. In our manifesto, we said we had our own very strong views on which fringe loons were the bigger threat. That will be the right.
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I thought we might. I don't think postmodernism & its offshoots are the biggest problem in the world. I do think a huge epistemological shift has taken place which is undermining the credibility of the left, feeding into right wing identity politics & post-truth society.
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Mmm yeah, I think there are plenty of examples of rhetoric from the left which are a gift to the right's proponents. I think my own personal goal is to encourage a more charitable view of the ideas on the left in order to discourage extreme examples being accepted as the whole.
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Absolutely. I get that. I think this is certainly worth doing but I'd argue it is better to do this by admitting to and addressing the bad ideas on the left as a leftie. The argument that this does not define the left is much better made this way.
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