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James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism

Decoding the Gurus

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I Don't Think It's Anything's Being Smuggled in People Like d'Angelo or Even Any Academic Critical Theorist

i don't think there's anything nefarious about that it's just a natural consequence of how the world works yeah so academic theories can be more by zantian than is standard. i'm not an expert in this area but i would be hugely surprised if there isn't significant differences between different theorists who might share core beliefs like society is organized unequal and power structures go unacknowledged. But james in this talk tends to treat d'Angelo and and other scholars who references as if one of them says something then all of them basically agree with it. He compares or critical theory social justice to a virus which is an other metaphor that he uses fairly often and justifies this at several points

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