Could you suggest a far-right view which does have theoretical, ideological depth and complexity?
Huh? We seem to be at cross-purposes here. Yes, they both deny science. My examples will be of theories which do that which I can get my teeth into. I think you think I am arguing something I am not.
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I am currently studying a great body of scholarship around feminist epistemology which includes distinct concepts of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, epistemic exploitation, epistemic violence, privilege-preserving epistemic pushback, reason/emotion divide, situatedness
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It's all a big fascinating complicated mess all building on itself which I can dig right into and take apart and uncover the sources of and refine down the core assumptions and show why they don't work. And I can show how this manifests in society and ideas of 'stay in your lane'
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I am not getting any of this from the far-right. There's no scholarship being produced now that I can find and in conversation, I usually just hear assertions about racial superiority and conspiracy theories and the death of western civilisation which I can't probe too far into.
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Regarding populism, I would definitely agree with you; the literature I'm aware of is predominantly of a liberal bent. Regarding the "death of Western civilisation"/"Western cultural values", it's certainly taken as a dogwhistle by the far left.
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It was right-wing populism I was criticised for not criticising enough. I was asked to justify why I don't criticise the far-right, Trump & rightwing populism but focus almost exclusively on problems on the left. The answer is that it's more interesting. That is all.
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no no, no argument - just thought you give examples of things like far-right & far-left viewpoints, nothing more :)
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OK, well, them both being dismantlable by science says nothing about whether or not I am finding more ideological and theoretical depth to study on the left than I am on the right which is my reason for focusing more on the left than the right.
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