The Crapification of Academic Philosophy: New "Being 'Trans' in Philosophy" "Zine"

facepalm

Thanks, I guess, to the Mystic for sending me this.

The most ridiculous idea of the last 100 years has its hooks firmly in academic philosophy. Proponents of the view advocate it loudly at every turn...saner heads tend to remain silent. This is a general aspect of the left's ideological capture of academia: leftist views are freely espoused...and the espousers are lauded. Opposition, even to the most outlandishly absurd leftists views, is discouraged and commonly punished in one way or another.

Note the number of comments, just for one thing.

Perhaps people have just stopped even trying.

Note that, among the pearls of wisdom from this "zine" (what is this, the 1970s?):

"Being trans is not a controversial idea. It is a lived reality."

See?

I hope this allays any bigoted doubts you might have had, bigot.

None of this is controversial!

Thus it has been decreed...

And here's an even more ridiculous bit of anti-philosophical sophistry:

Philosophical conversations about trans people do not happen in a vacuum. They happen in a political context where trans people are relentlessly attacked and a material context where trans lives are particularly vulnerable. These contexts make it impossible to "just ask questions" about trans people. And trans people and our loved ones are not okay -- in, with, and because of our discipline.

You see, if you claim pathetic victim status, others much accept any metaphysical claims you might make about yourself. Once the victim card has been played, rational discussion must cease...but not just that...rather, "trans" ideology must be accepted as if it were true.
   The left is totalitarian. Its dogmas must be injected into every other activity, and its goals trump any goals that activity might have had. Medicine can no longer aim primarily at healing...that aim must be subordinated to "social justice." Same with math. Same with piloting an aircraft. Dispassionate rational inquiry cannot be conducted so long as anyone claims oppression...

   Progressivism, if taken to its "logical" extreme, destroys everything in its path.