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At Concordia the Women& #39;s/Gender Studies program has 8 faculty members, out of 1089 full-time faculty and librarians and 1330 part-time faculty. There& #39;s no postcolonial program; 5 courses across the university focus on it.
The culture-war image of academia is QAnon-level fantasy. https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1305702019601063937">https://twitter.com/C_Kavanag...
The culture-war image of academia is QAnon-level fantasy. https://twitter.com/C_Kavanagh/status/1305702019601063937">https://twitter.com/C_Kavanag...
And its purveyors, a few of whom come from Concordia and similar universities, know this perfectly well.
All it actually takes to see what universities are teaching (if you can& #39;t be bothered to visit one) is to download a course calendar or look at department web pages.
This isn& #39;t genuine concern. It& #39;s cynical propaganda aimed at an audience that mostly already wants to believe it.
This isn& #39;t genuine concern. It& #39;s cynical propaganda aimed at an audience that mostly already wants to believe it.
Universities are fundamentally conservative institutions.
That& #39;s not to deny that faculty in arts lean left. It& #39;s to point out that just as the leanings of faculty demonstrably don& #39;t shape the views of students, so they don& #39;t reflect the nature of institutions that employ them.
That& #39;s not to deny that faculty in arts lean left. It& #39;s to point out that just as the leanings of faculty demonstrably don& #39;t shape the views of students, so they don& #39;t reflect the nature of institutions that employ them.
And the purveyors of culture-war discourse know this, too, which is why they happily call on those employers to fire left-leaning faculty when they think they might do so.
The reason people are angry at police brutality or neo-Nazi marches or Confederate statues isn& #39;t postcolonial studies. It& #39;s that some people have a problem with open murder and with the celebration of genocide and slavery.
That doesn& #39;t require "theory", it just requires thought.
That doesn& #39;t require "theory", it just requires thought.
I suppose the great gift of the Sokal Cubed clowns is that their collective arc begins with mediocre academic work, passes through QAnon-style fantasies about academia, and ends in having actual QAnon types as their fanbase.
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