
James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism
Decoding the Gurus
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The Critical Theory of Social Justice Is a Metaphor
critical theory article that compared it to a virus didn't actually ring too many alarm bells for me because partly one i know how the field is. They rely heavily on this evocative analogy to make their article sound more exciting than it is right which is something that academics tend to do. The diversity training industry in the united states alone is above a ten billion dollar a year industry. Almost none of what it does is supported by evidence in his favor some of what itdoes is has evidence against it so yeah i just played that clip to highlight that like i say this metaphor is extremely useful to jim's in his argument and it does have rhetorical force soYeah i just think he should own that
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