What’s wrong with academia and woke culture?
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2023
- Sean Wilentz, Zena Hitz and Leon Wieseltier discuss education, overpoliticization and the search for truth. Check out the entire debate: nexus-instituut.nl/en/activit....
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Brilliant! Just brilliant....
Sean Wilentz starts with a softball "being woke is like wearing horse blinders" comment.
Zena Hitz blurbs out a bunch of incoherent nonsence, "Lets just talk buzzwords at each other and that will solve all the worlds problems."
Leon Wieselltier ends with a vague "Everything is political" speech.
I have been teaching in higher ed for 13 yrs and I have never seen such a drastic change in my students. All of my courses (philosophy, mostly ethics-based) have been built with a strong student participation component. This past semester, when I would try to engage my students, I was met with silence. I kept reminding them how much of their grade was based on class participation, but still nothing. Eventually, students began visiting me after class, expressing they did have things to say but they're too afraid to talk about controversial issues in a full classroom. They're afraid of saying, "the wrong thing." So, the place (not specifically)that has largely pushed this movement, has now silenced almost all of my students because they don't know what language is offensive & what is acceptable. Next semester I am teaching a class on prejudice & discrimination. I have taught the class before, but I'm going to have to re-write it from the ground up, hopefully encouraging engagement. My interests are in these areas of discrimination and social justice, so I am accepting of all people. However, I think this woke culture is just another iteration of white privilege rearing its ugly head. White people, like myself, can have strong instincts to do something to help marginalized communities. The problem is when white people decide how to fix the problems these unique communities face without actually asking their members what they would like to see happen. Look at the charter schools in NYC, just as one example. White parents come into a struggling, mostly-black school and whitewash it. Helping end racism, homophobia, or other forms of discrimination is not achieved by contemporary cultural appropriation, or some other term that hasn't been used yet ;).
this clip shows them discussing the issues of the "woke" echo chamber in an echo chamber of their own. i would love a clip that actually debates the topic from several positions :)
(also the premise that certain aspects of society are to be apart from politics is justifying ignorance and seems very undemocratic. if ANY ISSUES AT ALL are considered out of bounds for political action, then the people holding that belief need to question what traditional and possibly outdated ideas they are afraid of putting up against democracy. imo)
A clan of stuttering arm waving nuts.
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Thanks for cherry picking the conversation to confirm your own biases. "woke" is a right wing pejorative to represent anyone who doesn't share their love of ignorance. Why is it the right wing finds that the solution to everything is more ignorance? One could conceivably complain about so called "wokeness" as a tendency to blame racism first before considering other factors, but that the backlash to it is considerably WORSE. Ignorance will not do anything about racism, in fact left on its own will make it considerably WORSE. Fascists are depending on the crass tribalism of idiots to rule over them.
Define ignorance
Don't you see how retribalisation comes about through the need for certainties and absolutes, especially regarding historical victims and persecutors. This atomisation into historic victim groups is the main problem people face when interacting face to face, an absurd situation.