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James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose sound like fucking ArmoredSkeptic, lmfao
Yes, I am reading Cynical Theory, I want to laugh my ass off at how bad this is.
The reason your term is clunky is because it's an overgeneralizing term. It's used with reckless abandon by idiots who have an axe to grind with french philosophers, but that's not going to stop you, clearly.
Oh joy, my background.
Oh, so this is just cultural analysis? Joy, I can treat this with the same level of buttfuckery that I do Mark Fisher.
If you genuinely wanted to explain this broad acceptance "through the academy", maybe getting clear on what the hell actually happened in the academy might have been a good idea? In which case the taxonomies would have helped, and clarified your problems a bit better.
But we'll see!
I'll continue tomorrow, it's almost midnight. But this is a good pet project, I think.
