There hasn't been a thread dedicated to this issue, and perhaps that's because it's only a niche interest for some people here, but hopefully I am wrong.
Rather than trying to explain it myself (and probably doing a shitty job), the below extract is from a great online magazine called Areo (https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/20...st-scholarship-activism-on-evergreen-college/):
The first video on this issue released by the Australian filmmaker Mike Nayna:
The entire playlist to date can be found here:
If you're in the mood for a roller coaster ride, jump on board and watch these. You'll go from laughing to cringing and then to horrified and back. The interview between two of the academics and Joe Rogan on his podcast was brilliant.
This doesn't seem like such a problem in academia here in Australia, and it really limited to pockets within the higher education system in the USA, but these 'applied postmodernism' ideas certainly make their way out of the universities and into common parlance. I don't want to make it seem like it's a bigger issue than what it is, but the sooner these ideas get exposed for having the rotten core they possess, the better. As they said in their first video - race, gender and all the other topics are well worth studying. The problem is how they are being studied.
Rather than trying to explain it myself (and probably doing a shitty job), the below extract is from a great online magazine called Areo (https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/20...st-scholarship-activism-on-evergreen-college/):
In the first installation of a two-part documentary embedded here, filmmaker Mike Nayna examines the ideological fervor that took root there [The Evergreen State College] with an aim to explaining how this could have happened at one of the most liberal higher education colleges in the world. He explores the applied postmodern conception of society, as we have called it, and seeks to comprehend and communicate how it and its accompanying moral imperative were able to take hold of a collegiate administration and overrule Evergreen’s commitment to academic freedom, open-ended experimental pedagogies and unparalleled professorial autonomy.
At the center of the Evergreen saga are two of its former tenured biology professors: Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying. These two—also married to one another—made the heroic mistake of seeing the problem unfolding in real time and attempting to address it. Nayna’s Evergreen documentary interviews Weinstein and Heying and interweaves their experiences with footage from within Evergreen, in order to show how an experimental liberal college in the Pacific Northwest could be overrun by this sort of impassioned preaching, bizarre rituals, group chanting and mob outrage. This serves as the backstory for what has made Evergreen most famous, the turmoil that followed Weinstein’s decision to take a stand against it as it crept onto the scene.
The first video on this issue released by the Australian filmmaker Mike Nayna:
The entire playlist to date can be found here:
If you're in the mood for a roller coaster ride, jump on board and watch these. You'll go from laughing to cringing and then to horrified and back. The interview between two of the academics and Joe Rogan on his podcast was brilliant.
This doesn't seem like such a problem in academia here in Australia, and it really limited to pockets within the higher education system in the USA, but these 'applied postmodernism' ideas certainly make their way out of the universities and into common parlance. I don't want to make it seem like it's a bigger issue than what it is, but the sooner these ideas get exposed for having the rotten core they possess, the better. As they said in their first video - race, gender and all the other topics are well worth studying. The problem is how they are being studied.