SJWs, and the degradation of the liberal/left, borrow a lot from the right, really. Secret, satanic/racist messages in pop culture. Forcing a classroom to revolve around your delicate beliefs (attach a trigger warning to Darwin, or don't teach him at all. It's not enough that I can pray as much as I like, the WHOLE CLASS must come to a stand still for prayer, etc.) We even have tons of SJW televangelists now. Or netevangeleists or whatever.BjornP wrote:I'm just 4 and a half minutes in, and I'm already nodding to everything he says. Also counting myself lucky that we don't have your problem in our universities. Sweden just across the sound does, but it is a national sport to make fun of the Swedes for excatly their, usually patronizing, PC culture - even amongst our farthest leftists.Speaker to Animals wrote:It's more complicated than that. This professor discusses the problem further.
A cultural issue is usually more complex than an ideological one. It's not just your leftists that argue as if victimhood equals victory in an argument, after all. Being a victim is even economically lucrative, cash settlements for when you drop your coffee and sue the company for two million dollars for ruining your shoes and the like. No doubt that your leftists are more extreme in their victim/offender mentality, that they live in more of a bubble, but there's a reason that they are or became - how best to frame it? - socially allowed by wider society to suddenly enter and influence college life to the extent they get tenure teaching pseudo-scientific activism.
I also think some of it is kind of an advancement in the science of pandering. Disagree with the right, post-9-11. Wow, you don't support the troops, I guess. In fact, you're on the side of Al Queda.
Disagree with the left. Wow, you must hate women. In fact, I guess you're on the side of the KKK. These are good ways to make people feel good for siding with you and afraid to say anything against you.
The right have had more success in k-12, in certain areas anyway.
But the left version def. looks to be a yuge problem in universities. Though, I think labeling it Marxism is wrong. There have always been Marxist profs, many good ones. It's just an outlook, like free market economics.. I understand the idea that identarians apply Marxist thinking to other points of cultural division, but I think it just confuses things. Then, when you suggest purging marxist thought, you are doing the same thing they are.
The problem is illiberal-ism, authoritarianism and above all, in this context, anti-intellectualism.
