I am studying an undergraduate Philosophy programme at Edinburgh university where feminist and critical race theorist discussions about the social construction of race and gender by Sally Haslanger is being shoehorned into classes on metaphysics, which wouldn’t be so bad if it were being considered in the abstract alone without calls for political action.
The author performs a slight of hand where they talk about materialist Marxist roots in feminism (3rd wave presumably) but that they have moved toward the social and the cultural as if to suggest they have detached themselves from Marxism and that this isn’t the exact same move the cultural/identity/neo-Marxists have made, as you make clear.
The faculty also omit the context of the Critical scholarship and it’s Marxists themes during the lectures and ignore the foundational problems with the arguments false assumptions (race and gender not being biological categories and so are purely socially/politically constructed instead).
This was only addressed by the faculty after I posed a series of questions in a Q&A and they still talked around the flaws that I proposed and was very dismissive about the Marxist influence in the content.
I apologise for the long comment but the amount of effort that is clearly going into getting students to blindly adopt this Critical consciousness paired as social justice causes is staggering.
It’s quite condescending that they think so little of their students that they can either knowingly omit such context from content that makes calls for political action on the basis of such arguments; or do not fully understand the material themselves and do not feel it necessary to do so before presenting it.
I have made the rector and the vice-principal aware of this and other instances of the same ideological manifestations. Though, I am largely being ignored, or passed onto the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Director (who is also ignoring me) and have been treated as a customer service issue over this last year since I started here. Still, they only harm themselves in the long run by ignoring my arguments and failing to substantively respond to them.
It is a shame to see these great institutions captured by this twisted ideology.
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I am studying an undergraduate Philosophy programme at Edinburgh university where feminist and critical race theorist discussions about the social construction of race and gender by Sally Haslanger is being shoehorned into classes on metaphysics, which wouldn’t be so bad if it were being considered in the abstract alone without calls for political action.
The author performs a slight of hand where they talk about materialist Marxist roots in feminism (3rd wave presumably) but that they have moved toward the social and the cultural as if to suggest they have detached themselves from Marxism and that this isn’t the exact same move the cultural/identity/neo-Marxists have made, as you make clear.
The faculty also omit the context of the Critical scholarship and it’s Marxists themes during the lectures and ignore the foundational problems with the arguments false assumptions (race and gender not being biological categories and so are purely socially/politically constructed instead).
This was only addressed by the faculty after I posed a series of questions in a Q&A and they still talked around the flaws that I proposed and was very dismissive about the Marxist influence in the content.
I apologise for the long comment but the amount of effort that is clearly going into getting students to blindly adopt this Critical consciousness paired as social justice causes is staggering.
It’s quite condescending that they think so little of their students that they can either knowingly omit such context from content that makes calls for political action on the basis of such arguments; or do not fully understand the material themselves and do not feel it necessary to do so before presenting it.
I have made the rector and the vice-principal aware of this and other instances of the same ideological manifestations. Though, I am largely being ignored, or passed onto the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Director (who is also ignoring me) and have been treated as a customer service issue over this last year since I started here. Still, they only harm themselves in the long run by ignoring my arguments and failing to substantively respond to them.
It is a shame to see these great institutions captured by this twisted ideology.
New to sub stack and very much enjoying your content.
All the best.
Matthew Brown.