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By identifying the distorting effects power had on society’s beliefs and values, they believed they could achieve a more accurate picture of the world.
A distinction ought to be made between best practices for trigger warnings and trigger warnings as best practice.
Speech codes often claim to protect ‘cultural diversity’ on campuses, but they often do the reverse.
The uncomfortable physiological feeling of hearing offensive speech, it would then seem, vindicates this view that one is being attacked.
So what are Peterson’s views, and why did Newman consider them so controversial?
Howard Dean of dishonesty for his remarks at a free speech panel held at an Ohio college last year, is finding support among other prominent academics.
Where did the social justice advocates, and their associated attitude, come from?
What are the intellectual tendencies behind this new intolerance, and how do they creep into popular discourse?
"Justification for such claims. Getting higher test scores after studying philosophy does not show that higher scores are the result of studying philosophy."
It is an answer looking for a question, the opposite of an open and free search for true knowledge about human beings in the world through time.
At this point, we must really pause to ask ourselves how feminist theory is leaking into popular culture, and the reason is that it’s activism-driven scholarship.
Why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
Though different literary forms, the key message of both works was the same: beware any person or group that redefines words.