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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Can you point me to any that I can get from Chapters? If Richard Dawkins can present the arguments supporting evolutionary biology in clear and plain language accessible to the average person, and Neil deGrasse Tyson can do the same for astrophysics, then surely critical race theory can be just as accessible.
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https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca...ory#internal=1
My point, in any event, was simply to rebut this idea that all of the ideas that are currently derided as “identity politics” emerged without any basis in serious, peer-reviewed academic work. That isn’t true.
I am now 15 years removed from an illustrious undergraduate social science career. I now slog away in a profession that much more closely resembles a trade than academia. So I am by no means an expert. I don’t read academic journals. I don’t pretend to. I have no idea who’s hot and who’s not in critical theories of history, economics, literature, etc, etc. I don’t even know who’s hot in the world of critical theories of justice. I haven’t bothered with that since Dworkin. I’m too tired to really care. But, I presume that the old adage of “publish or perish” is alive and well and that therefore there are throngs of wager Petersons out there only too happy to challenge the utility or legitimacy of “identity politics”. I quick read of the Wikipedia article on “identity politics” seemed to unearth a slew of such critics.
As I said, I’m no expert. I could easily be wrong. I just haven’t really seen a compelling case yet.