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Michael Shermer: The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...modernism/

EXCERPT: [...] Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy, and that nearly everyone in America is racist and bigoted, including their own professors, most of whom are liberals or progressives devoted to fighting these social ills. Of the 58 Evergreen faculty members who signed a statement “in solidarity with students” calling for disciplinary action against Weinstein for “endangering” the community by granting interviews in the national media, I tallied only seven from the sciences. Most specialize in English, literature, the arts, humanities, cultural studies, women's studies, media studies, and “quotidian imperialisms, intermetropolitan geography [and] detournement.” A course called “Fantastic Resistances” was described as a “training dojo for aspiring ‘social justice warriors’” that focuses on “power asymmetries.”

If you teach students to be warriors against all power asymmetries, don't be surprised when they turn on their professors and administrators. This is what happens when you separate facts from values, empiricism from morality, science from the humanities....

MORE: https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...modernism/
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Magical Realist Offline
Well it's not like Shermer doesn't have his own political agenda of scientism laden with value assumptions about the human race and a worldview rife with moralistic and humanist premises. He even wrote a manifesto for scientific naturalism once, but it was more aimed at religion as the source of all evil in our world instead of academic postmodernism. I guess on his big roulette wheel of ideological pariahs any non-science worldview is bound to come up eventually.

https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/2017/im...manism.pdf
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Ostronomos Offline
I hesitate to answer this thread for fear of putting up walls of confinement around my liberal stance, but it is the weakness of the imbecile's mind to degrade truth in any way shape or form, assuming cases where truth is absolute and objective. That is why I am afraid of American academia.
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