While I feel I technically speaking ought to be applauding any effort to boost the tollerance of heterodox opinions in universities, my heart would not be in it. I think the issue is that many of the most vicious “political types” are the ones with the weakest knowledge about the history and provenance of their own ideas. How many ultra-feminists have ever so much as opened “The Feminine Mystique”? The Feminine Mystique is not even talked about or refferenced in discussions on Feminism I’ve come across. How many “Marxists” ever struggled as far as the end of the 1st chapter of Das Kapital?
It’s puzzling to think about how you could persuade someone to be more open-minded about the beliefs of others when they’re hardly even serious about their own.
While I feel I technically speaking ought to be applauding any effort to boost the tollerance of heterodox opinions in universities, my heart would not be in it. I think the issue is that many of the most vicious “political types” are the ones with the weakest knowledge about the history and provenance of their own ideas. How many ultra-feminists have ever so much as opened “The Feminine Mystique”? The Feminine Mystique is not even talked about or refferenced in discussions on Feminism I’ve come across. How many “Marxists” ever struggled as far as the end of the 1st chapter of Das Kapital?
It’s puzzling to think about how you could persuade someone to be more open-minded about the beliefs of others when they’re hardly even serious about their own.