Imaginary Racism: Gardener's Question Time Edition
Pure, unadulterated idiocy
Certain sectors of academia are rife with this nonsense, and it's infected much of lower-middle-brow social and political thought . Not-terribly bright people get brainwashed by sophomoric theories as undergraduates, and become convinced of their own infallibility since, hey, you can't go too far to the left! The lefter the better! And racism is bad, ergo there is no such thing as being too anti-racist... Even patently absurd claims and false accusations are not to be lamented.Extremism in defense of silly theories is no vice...
(h/t J. Carthensis)
Certain sectors of academia are rife with this nonsense, and it's infected much of lower-middle-brow social and political thought . Not-terribly bright people get brainwashed by sophomoric theories as undergraduates, and become convinced of their own infallibility since, hey, you can't go too far to the left! The lefter the better! And racism is bad, ergo there is no such thing as being too anti-racist... Even patently absurd claims and false accusations are not to be lamented.Extremism in defense of silly theories is no vice...
(h/t J. Carthensis)
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