France Sees An Existential Threat From Woketarianism / American Academia

Good.

They're right:

“The common agenda of these enemies of European civilization can be summed up in three words: decolonize, demasculate, de-Europeanize,’’ Mr. Taguieff said. “Straight white male — that’s the culprit to condemn and the enemy to eliminate.”

The times immediately follows this up with some Woketarian crap:

Behind the attacks on American universities — led by aging white male intellectuals — lie the tensions in a society where power appears to be up for grabs, said Éric Fassin, a sociologist who was one of the first scholars to focus on race and racism in France, about 15 years ago.

Of course that's the way the Woketarians see everything: behind this intellectual disagreement is a power-struggle... And, of course, mostly with the dreaded OLD WHITE MENZ!!!...

   Funny that so much of this actually came to the U.S. from France back in the '80s--bad literary theory and pseudophilosophy--postmodernism and poststructuralism. Though we have the Germans to blame for critical theory. Political correctness has always been built largely on what I've called the postpostmodern mishmash--all three of the above-named views, plus feminism/gender-theory. Now critical legal studies and its offspring critical race theory has been added to the mix. Paleo-PC emphasized pomo/poststructuralism. Neo-PC obviously emphasizes the critical theory bit. And trans ideology has eclipsed feminism. 

   Anyway. These are, indeed, the intellectual viruses that are eating away at universities. They're obscure enough to conceal their obvious absurdities from the mediocre intellects that tend to advocate them, more than merely consistent with antiliberal leftist political fads, and built on the kind of pseudo-intellectual cant that makes it easy for people to sound like a dumb person thinks smart people sound. Also it's a cult, so...it has whatever allure and power those things have over the weak-willed.

   Sad that the Western intellectual tradition is in danger from such a huge pile of pseudointellectual shit.