Jenni’s Reviews > Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody > Status Update
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Super interesting. An approachable academic critique of leftists’ use of applied postmodernist theory. The intro had so many flaming hot takes - the kind of stuff that makes you assume they’re willfully misrepresenting their opposition - that I almost stopped reading, but it got more reasonable IMO. Great follow-up after reading Said’s Orientalism, which is basically a landmark in postmodernist theory.
— Aug 09, 2023 08:15PM
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Jenni
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Genuinely loving this. This is a nuanced, thoughtful critique of "woke" social justice culture. I disagree with almost all of their conclusions, which I think only begin to make sense when they somewhat obtusely push everything further than it's clearly intended to be pushed. But it's well-written, intellectually rigorous, and offers a reasonable and good faith tour through relevant conservative critiques.
— Aug 15, 2023 10:41AM
