We need to talk about American universities🧵
This is Johannah King-Slutzky, the Columbia grad student who demanded "humanitarian aid" for students protesting Israel on campus.
Have you wondered how a supposedly educated person could make such an absurd and tone-deaf request?
This is Johannah King-Slutzky, the Columbia grad student who demanded "humanitarian aid" for students protesting Israel on campus.
Have you wondered how a supposedly educated person could make such an absurd and tone-deaf request?
While many people go to college and receive a rigorous education, it entirely depends on the field of study.
This is Johannah’s focus in school:
This is Johannah’s focus in school:
This kind of academic jargon may sound impressive to a layperson, but it is actually intellectually bankrupt.
Jargon is often a hallmark of pseudoscience.
Charlatans frequently use jargon to deceive people into buying their snake oil - a term used to describe a scam.
Jargon is often a hallmark of pseudoscience.
Charlatans frequently use jargon to deceive people into buying their snake oil - a term used to describe a scam.
Johannah’s academic focus belongs to a family of identity and culture-focused studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We call it activist scholarship.
It is a form of snake oil.
Influenced by Marxist Critical Theory and postmodern thought, activist scholarship focuses on power dynamics, and seeks to drive social change.
It is a form of snake oil.
Influenced by Marxist Critical Theory and postmodern thought, activist scholarship focuses on power dynamics, and seeks to drive social change.
Other fields of study advance knowledge objectively, but activist scholarship uses knowledge selectively to advance specific social and political goals.
This approach is unscientific because it starts with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it, leading to flawed research in areas like race, gender, sexuality, society, and culture.
This approach is unscientific because it starts with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it, leading to flawed research in areas like race, gender, sexuality, society, and culture.
It’s commonly assumed that college campuses are bastions of practical, fact-based learning, but it depends entirely on the discipline. Some courses are more focused on promoting specific ideologies than imparting knowledge about the world.
Few understand just how intellectually bankrupt and steeped in pseudoscience that many fields in the Humanities are.
Few understand just how intellectually bankrupt and steeped in pseudoscience that many fields in the Humanities are.
Some disciplines are designed specifically to breed leftist activists, which are not concerned in objective truth, but in their truth, and how it can be applied to better the lives of the identity groups they deem to be “marginalized.”
This sounds like a noble goal, but it often flies in the face of Enlightenment principles, science, reason, and the pursuit of objective truth.
This sounds like a noble goal, but it often flies in the face of Enlightenment principles, science, reason, and the pursuit of objective truth.
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