Thus sayeth the encyclopedia:
American history has been marked by persistent and determined efforts to expand the scope and inclusiveness of civil rights.
The 1950s and 60s were a great upsurge of energy to achieve:
* Equal rights for all races and sexes
* Free speech
* Integration
* Due process and the ending of lynchings.
Now in universities we have:
* Demands for special race- and gender-based privileges
* Speech codes
* Re-introduced apartheid of dormitories and classes
* Threats against dissenters and abandoned due process.
The civil rights movements were the result of liberal, universalist, and objective concepts of justice and equality.
Our era’s universities are in the grip of authoritarian, Balkanized, and social-subjective understandings of oppression.
A philosophical transformation in one generation.
One hundred percent correct. For a cheek in tongue version of what happened from Greg Eden’s Teranesia:
“In the nineteen sixties and seventies, there were people in all the democratic countries who didn’t have any real power, and they started going to the people who did have all the power and saying, “All these principles of equality you’ve been talking about since the French Revolution are very nice, but you don’t seem to be taking them very seriously. You’re all hypocrites, actually. So we’re going to make you take those principles seriously.” And they held demonstrations and bus rides, and occupied buildings, and it was very embarrassing for the people in power, because the other people had such a good argument, and anyone who listened seriously had to agree with them.
‘Feminism was working, and the civil rights movement was working, and all the other social justice movements were getting more and more support. So, in the nineteen eighties, the CIA—’ she turned to Keith and explained cheerfully, ‘this is where X-Files Theory comes into it – hired some really clever linguists to invent a secret weapon: an incredibly complicated way of talking about politics that didn’t actually make any sense, but which spread through all the universities in the world, because it sounded so impressive. And at first, the people who talked like this just hitched their wagon to the social justice movements, and everyone else let them come along for the ride, because they seemed harmless. But then they climbed on board the peace train and threw out the driver.
‘So instead of going to the people in power and saying, “How about upholding the universal principles you claim to believe in?” the people in the social justice movements ended up saying things like “My truth narrative is in competition with your truth narrative!” And the people in power replied, “Woe is me! You’ve thrown me in the briar patch!” And everyone else said, “Who are these idiots? Why should we trust them, when they can’t even speak properly?” And the CIA were happy. And the people in power were happy. And the secret weapon lived on in the universities for years and years, because everyone who’d played a part in the conspiracy was too embarrassed to admit what they’d done.”
By the way why doesn’t it come up more often in universities how MLK has been hijacked by the pomos? The two may as well be philosophical opposites (MLK invoking Enlightenment values, Postmodernism wanting to violently destroy them) yet the radicals have been allowed to claim the movement as their own just because they both referenced themselves as pro-“social justice”.