Haight and Peterson On PC And The Academy

I think this is mostly pretty good. Some of it's really good, and some I think is wrong:

I do think we're figuring this stuff out. For example, the idea that PC (or "social justice"-ism or whatever you want to call it) is quasi-religious seems to have arisen in several different places at about the same time--which is a bit of evidence for the plausibility of the claim.

   Peterson is about the least-objectionable Jungian I've ever heard...but that stuff still gets a bit out of hand from time to time, IMO. I'm certainly not 100% on the same pate with Haight either, FWIW. But I think they're both pretty insightful about the PC problem.

   My current take is that my own institution is a bit like church. Lots of professors, students and administrators talk about "social justice" like people in church talk about Jesus and salvation. And they talk about racism and all the other -isms and -phobias like people in church talk about Satan and sin. 

   One notable feature is that they're often onto something--they're certainly not entirely wrong about everything. Murder and dishonesty and selfishness and unfairness are all bad...they're just not exactly sinful... Racism and all the other SJW/NPC obsessions: also bad. They're just not exactly matters of "privilege" nor "institutional racism," nor "social justice." Then, of course, both groups are just flat-out wrong about a lot. For example, neither understands the importance of truth and intellectual autonomy.

   Anyway. You've heard this all before.