I have to say, I felt this, @GlennLoury . I learned this week that a humanitarian health organization I hold dear is being shaken down to divert attention & resources toward some kind of colonial exorcism in the middle of a global pandemic. 1/5 https://twitter.com/i/status/1282933006747852800
Much of the "vacuousness" popular among guilty white intellectuals is grounded in an academic fad that flourished throughout the '90s. It created a generation of tenured radicals that practiced a new kind of dissociated activism. @noamchomskyT sums it up nicely here. 2/5
This movement focused on subjective experience, uncovering hidden power structures, & subconscious prejudice. Without objective reality serving a regulative function, their collective endeavor drifted into a world of pure abstraction. 3/5
For several years I've been mapping this phenomenon that now appears to be dominating public discourse & I'm yet to find evidence it produces anything practical. I have seen it create guilt complexes, social derangement, & profitable careers for those evangelizing its doctrines.
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