Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I share your frustrations that change isn't forthcoming more quickly. I think it's bubbling vigorously beneath the surface, waiting for a moment that helps the majority feel secure enough to speak out. I hoped our grievance studies probe would do it, but it wasn't enough yet. https://twitter.com/CampbellSocProf/status/1058497268607635456 …

Many things have to occur before the hegemony in academia can lose its grip. As you note, most professors and even more administrators are strongly left, deeply invested in the moral worldview that sees this problem as a de facto good. That won't change. Individuals may.

Individuals in academia may change, but there are at least two factors that have to occur before they can even *question* the grievance studies hegemon, much less break it. 1) They must feel safe. They don't. 2) They must doubt their moral intuitions. That's extremely hard.

"Grievance studies" is something you made up. To the extent it exists, as you characterize it, it's marginal. There's lots of excellent academic work--historical and theoretical on inequality, domination, and oppression. It's good, not bad, and not remotely "hegemonic."

There is a lot of bullshit in postmodern academia- I can find very little to redeem it with the scientific qualifications of reproducibility or falsifiability or through prediction or postulating effective solutions. I think the name “grievance studies” is apt for much of it 1/2