Actually, she's wrong re bourgeois values, but she is entirely correct to try to make the case.
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And those that disagree are entirely correct in publicly responding to her.
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Yes, if only they'd made an argument and not a denouncement. All academia suffers from this tendency towards ideological censure.
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And Pinker fell right into it.
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Er, no.
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Your words, not mine. Besides, hero worship is unhealthy.
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Agreed. Especially when they lead to cultural revolutions and purges.
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To me the mistakes began as soon as anyone took the W & A piece as being remutely related to scholarship. Happy to make that case.
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Of those 33 law profs denouncing Wax, are any teaching their own kids the exact opposite of her 'bourgeois virtues'? If not, why not?
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No — Amy Wax is peddling *Family* Values, rebranded with a new name in the hope that you won’t notice.
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What's wrong with family values?
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Why would you retweet this, Sam? You debate controversial opinions on your podcast. Isn't debate healthy? Pinker wants to quiet students.
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not really lookin' for an answer, are ya? (cuz I got one...)
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Exactly. Universities should be places for dialectic, not "You're wrong so I must condemn you - and if I don't, I'm part of the problem!"
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It's more, "I condemn you, so you must be bad." The question of truth rarely comes up.
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How was she slandered or bullied? Her argument was attacked. If you want to make a controversial claim, be ready for the consequences.
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Ignoring the fact that her argument with simplistic and sophomoric, Free Speech works when both sides are allowed to speak.
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her argument wasn't attacked, she was. She was "denounced" with a bunch of buzzwords. That's not debate.
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she is 99% dead fucking wrong and that's partially the point (but she shouldn't be bullied)
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breakdown of bourgeois values not cause of societal decline but symptom of it: cause is decades of conservativism/neoliberalism
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