Imposing ideological conformity onto large institutions does not happen without fully elaborated materials, a cadre of evangelists and true believers, the support of the foundations that fund curricular change, and a willingness to apply coercive power nypost.com/2021/06/08/tea…
What happed in 2017-2018 -- ideological succession -- was the culmination of the patient work of many decades
It happened in thousands of seminar rooms and symposia of obscure, little regarded academic departments.
At a certain point, it suborned those with the power to make change happen at scale and catalyzed into movement that knows that tomorrow -- and today -- belongs to them
The OP shows us the face and the words of the new ruling consensus
Henceforth, let know one tell you that theoretical work is not real praxis; situated in proximity to the right institutions, there is no more effectual activity
This is why DeBoer's portrayal of opportunistically woke white males as desperately glomming onto the new discourse in an effort to eke out a few more years of income is wrong; they have a key role to play in the new hegemony
The publication of Nazi-like ideas in respectable academic publication is a necessary but not sufficient condition for actual genocide.
Still worth nothing the former when it happens....
Ideally neither condition is ever met. The meeting of the necessary condition should be regarded with due alarm and should raise questions about the antecedent moral and intellectual failures that enabled it
The attitude of indulgence toward dehumanizing rhetoric toward some categories of person, and the hesitancy to condemn such rhetoric forthrightly for fear of being seen to be on the “wrong side” of what is in fact a clear cut question both expose deep pathologies
Land acknowledgments now sweeping through nonprofit sector; Canada was a few years ahead of the US on this but expect the apparatus to go into overdrive from here on out law.northwestern.edu/about/diversit…
“Beds are Burning” came out when I was in eighth grade and was one of the first songs I dubbed onto a cassette tape. “Let’s give it back” was one of those statements that seemed like mere rhetoric but delivered with so much conviction that it seemed he must have meant it
The way we went from Caitlin Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair to “puberty blockers are a human right” in less than a decade, it seems entirely plausible that “let’s give it back” becomes a real movement in the next few years...
A succinct statement of what I call “the Successor Ideology”, which is the coalescence of every strand of academic radicalism into a single synoptic account of the oppression inherent in what Kelley calls “liberal multiculturalism.”
His identification of slavery with colonization makes sense; his invocation of all forms of gender normativity feels perfunctory and tacked on; but it is this insistence on the unity of all oppression that is the distinctive move
“It’s some of the most shoddy, methodologically flawed research we’ve ever seen published in these journals,” the doctor in the Zoom meeting said, “with sensational conclusions that seem totally unjustified from the results of the study.”bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens…
Recall debates I had in 2019 with folx smugly assuring me that the scope of wokeness would remain confined to universities and cultural bureaucracies.
It was always going to infect critical disciplines like medicine.
Many new forms of activism will as a certainty inflict "total disaster", help no one, and accrue a large body count of those who might otherwise have lived as those pushing for them congratulate themselves on pursuing justice bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-happens…
I hate all the companies that advertise on YouTube -- that soap guy, "manscaped", all the financial market scammers
The Amazon sellers...Are they making huge bank off of this crap?
I guess YouTube may have an interest in having the ads be annoying to sell more premium subscriptions. But the brands have an interest in not being annoying.