Any job you could lose over a tweet like this is probably not worth having. I’d expect more critical context in an essay-length review of the paper but this is fine for a tweet.https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1265998625836019712 …
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This frustration is understandable (though I think refuge in mockery is an admission of failure of sorts). When you must speak, but you also must only speak in approved extraordinarily skilled ways, the demand is that you learn an esoteric language.https://twitter.com/stedmanhalliday/status/1276563289900584960 …
Woke, like constitutional originalism, is essentially a scholastic religion rooted in the idea that some must become saints in order that others may be free. That, coupled with recognition that the average person is not in fact capable of saintliness, leads to textual fetishism.
To connect the dots explicitly, textualism is the Straussian belief that it is possible to be a "textbook saint" by studying some sainted text or set of discourses so closely that you can become capable of thinking exclusively in its language. You program yourself into sainthood.
the rise of the anti-woke left, finally
It's going to become a problem that "classical liberal" is a negative word because we need to defend liberalism and now it's possible to call somebody out as the 'classical' variety in order to make them appear colonialist, etc.
To be clear, we need a language of distancing, and to build a new tradition which fixes any of the old problems.
Good stuff
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