The meltdown described in this piece is completely surreal. What bothers me the most about these people, even more than their authoritarianism, is their stupidity. They are just *really* dumb, but everybody in polite society pretends not to notice it. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html">https://nymag.com/intellige...
I force myself to listen to Democracy Now on a regularly basis, where they invite a lot of woke scholars and activists. I do it because I want to make sure I& #39;m not missing anything important and, occasionally, I even learn something interesting.
But mostly I& #39;m just appalled by how incredibly *dumb* those people are. It boggles the mind how stupid they are. They have absolutely nothing interesting to contribute. They& #39;re just idiots who are given a platform and everybody listens to them and pretend they are not idiots.
I also saw that in academia. There are many people in woke studies who just produce worthless garbage and everybody intelligent knows that& #39;s what it is. They& #39;ll admit it in private, but they& #39;ll never say it publicly, because criticizing that stuff has low status association.
They think they are just being collegial, but that& #39;s just a story they tell themselves to sleep better at night, but they& #39;re just afraid to speak up. It& #39;s a huge moral failure that academics not only tolerate but even encourage this garbage even though they know it& #39;s garbage.