"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (p…
"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (primarily to its denigrators) “wokeness.”"
The fact that so much has been written on the topic of “what to call this thing” is, in itself, really interesting. Not sure I quite understand it, or what it means.
"In our time, the equivalent academic tendency is one that travels under many names—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); critical race theory (CRT); antiracism; white fragility; intersectionality; social justice; anticolonialism; social and emotional learning; progressivism; safetyism; critical social justice; identity Marxism; and (primarily to its denigrators) “wokeness.”"
The fact that so much has been written on the topic of “what to call this thing” is, in itself, really interesting. Not sure I quite understand it, or what it means.
The less charitable explanation is that it is a tool for obfuscation and motte-and-bailey rhetorical gamesmanship.
Just call it blithering idiocy!