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Both revered and despised for the image of humanity she presented to the world, and for her conclusions about the Samoan people, in particular.
Consilience makes the case for epistemological inter-relation, put into practice by the congregation of diverse fields of inquiry.
Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionism’s growing number of critics.
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Even this cursory glance reveals two important facts about the usage of the word ‘privilege’ today.
This sort of my-way-or-the-highway mentality is now spreading well beyond the urban university and into even remote communities.
My last book purge found me deciding the fate of Slavoj Žižek’s Tarrying With The Negative, a book I read in a class on Shakespeare and political theory.
“Academic Mobbing, Or How To Become Campus Tormentors,” Eve Seguin wrote, “Mobbing is social murder and, by definition, people cannot survive their own murder.”
Organizing a student event to discuss any topic — including diversity — should not be a safety hazard.
Evergreen’s prognosis is guarded at best, but it might explain what ails higher education in general.
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?