Despite having a background in history & it being my favourite of all subjects, I feel the need to write a thing about the tendency of academic types to use it to derail issues at hand right now.
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What I am talking about is the tendency to look at the origins and history of an idea that is plaguing us right now and make arguments about it which don't relate to what is plaguing us right now.
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eg, Despite the fact that commissions into FGM in the UK unfailingly recommend that the key to getting rid of it is getting Muslim imams to denounce it, attempting to raise the issue of FGM will invariably result in a dozen ppl telling you its origins are not Islamic.
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Similarly, attempts to discuss the current phase of postmodernist thinking and how it is affecting society will nearly always result in people wanting to argue about the origins of these ideas. These are interesting academic explorations but not the point.
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If I am trying to discuss the problem of positionality - stay-in-your-lane, lived experience, my truth, sit down and shut up - I do not wish to hear about the Frankfurt School, Marx, Hegel or, most bizzarely, Plato. Please and thank you.
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