"Destroying civilization"? Let's see, inclusion of minority narratives, even if rather incoherent, is "destroying civilization." How could that be, unless by "civilization" you implicitly really mean white, European/American civilization.
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Replying to @gorskon
That's maliciously uncharitable. He is speaking out against a particularly divisive and conspiratorial ideology based on shaky postmodern-style epistemology. He sees it as fuel for the fire of civilization-endangering polarization seen in the US, of which he sees 45 as a symptom.
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Replying to @TheRajala @gorskon
No. He’s a buffoon who thinks culture is static, and any attempt to consciously divorce ourselves of our behaviours that excluded everyone but the dominant class is a threat to his culture. It probably is. But it needs to die.
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Yes, it is polarizing to suggest that finally, after hundreds of years, we listen to any experience other than of white dudes like him. Because some people are bigots. The restbof us just get over it and move on with our lives, better for the diversity of knowledge.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
This is misstatement of his position and a misattribution of motive. With charity, one could imagine non-bigoted motives to protest the spread of divisive 'critical theory' based on shake pomo-style epistemology. It is to social science what naturopathy is to medicine.
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Replying to @TheRajala @gorskon
Except that isn’t what he does. When he says a woman refusing a man’s help is the end of civilization, as he did last week, he demonstrates the underlying problem is his attachment to overvalued ideas of masculinity and fear of change. He is a buffoon.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
Again a ludicrous caricature of the man's views and clairvoyance reguarding his supposed morally depraved 'true motivation'. I expect this kind of behaviour from quacks accusing people of being evil shills, but it is always surprising coming from good people such as yourself.
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Replying to @TheRajala @gorskon
It’s right there if you have eyes to see. He nearly wrecks his institution with an ill conceived human social experiment and no IRB oversight, lacks contrition and is now making himself a martyr. Now, who sounds like the crank? His persecution complex is classic.
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The experiment itself was absurd, a misunderstanding of peer review which isn’t designed to detect fraud, directed at pay for play journals that don’t care about quality (in any field) combined with probouncements about the end of civilization. Ludicrous claims, persecution...
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He has all the ear marks of a crank. And it is ludicrous. The humanities can’t bring down civilization. They can’t even bring down frat boys’ GPAs. An attack on the powerless by a buffoon, who has convinced himself he is persecuted through self inflicted wounds. Mediocre.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon
Assume for a moment that the guy had no hidden bigoted motivations and was genuinely concerned with what he saw as the rotting of humanities by 'critical theory' nonsense. Are his actions inconsistent with this?
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This is a bad day to make this argument, as he is now defending the lying propagandist of the fascist proud boys. https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1163141728137699333?s=20 …
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