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4 Jan
Another excellent, incredibly prescient quote from the 1996 book, The Opening of the American Mind, by UC Berkeley professor of history, Lawrence Levine: “It is exactly this understanding of how things do *not* happen that the leading critics of the contemporary university lack…
Thus they freely spin their facile theories of how the survivors of the New Left lost the political wars but won their ultimate triumph by capturing the university and transforming it from an institution of culture and learning to a high-handed and inflexible purveyor of...
Political Correctness. The problem with such notions––aside from the fact that they are promulgated, to borrow Carl Becker's memorable phrase, without fear and without research––is that they are telling examples of how things do not happen. Universities in the United States...
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2 Jan
Reading about the history of reactionary criticisms of the left a la Pluckrose & Lindsay, Douglas Murray, etc. A mentor from undergrad recommended a book responding to Allan Bloom, “The Opening of the American Mind,” by his PhD supervisor, Lawrence Levine.

Sub “woke” for “PC.” ImageImage
@mccormick_ted you history folks are always lurking with your prescience.
Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” (1987) seems to be the Bible of this anti-woke movement. The force of his central argument seems to rely on an analogy between rising PC culture and the Nazis. Jordan Peterson has clearly devoured this one. Image
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27 Oct 20
Here goes another one of my signature threads on the incredibly bulletproof #AntiWoke online echo chambers can be, focusing again on @wokal_distance. And before you remind me I have better things to do, remind yourself I am fully aware of this fact; I simply have no self-respect.
Tweet 3 is on the right track but misses the point. A metanarrative, as conceptualized by Lyotard, is a grand, totalizing, theory of everything: a theory that ends the infinite regress of epistemic justification. Lyotard's examples include Hegelian and Marxist theories of history
Re 4: Rather, postmodernism does not believe in the truth of any metanarrative.

And no, no, no, rejecting metanarratives does NOT mean denying the existence of absolute truth, and it does not necessarily lead to relativism, though it can suggest a banal sort of constructivism.
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30 Sep 20
Alrighty folxxx, you asked for it. Here’s my thread on @Hpluckrose’s instant classic, “How French ‘Intellectuals’ Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact.” Originally published at Areo, lucky enough to get the coveted @NewDiscourses placement. [1/n]

newdiscourses.com/2020/04/french…
Right off the bat, opening paragraph suggests any worldview “which denies a stable reality or reliable knowledge to exist” is thereby inconsistent. Why? No explanation. Moving on! [2/n]
Postmodernism involves a “rejection of the concept of the unified and coherent individual” as well as “philosophy which valued ethics, reason and clarity”—these are parochial (western, middle-class, male). How does one do philosophy without reason? No answer, no citations. [3/n]
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1 Sep 20
I'm in a heavy 2014 depression mood so y'all are getting my catharsis tunes
This is the only time I've genuinely enjoyed anything Drake-involved and it's not even close

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30 Aug 20
I just watched this video. In short: I agree that this popular style of diversity education/workshops/training, whether in the workplace or the academy, is generally unhelpful; at worst, it's counterproductive.

But Casey Peterson has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
Peterson identifies the target of his criticism as critical race theory (CRT), and he cites a portion of @DrTJC's definition for Britannica, which you can find here in full: britannica.com/topic/critical…
CRT is "un-American," he argues, because it contradicts the order of our justice system: it assumes every white person is racist "until absolved of [their] racism by a person of color."

His thesis: "CRT breeds nothing but unjustified fear, guilt, anger, victimhood, & hatred.”
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