This is a lesson to remain vigilant. We may be feeling triumphant because of the recent election results but their philosophies are not defeated. More likely they'll go quiet for a few years while growing unnoticed. Censorship will not completely end. And work will be done to prepare for the next cycle.
This is a lesson to remain vigilant. We may be feeling triumphant because of the recent election results but their philosophies are not defeated. More likely they'll go quiet for a few years while growing unnoticed. Censorship will not completely end. And work will be done to prepare for the next cycle.
“More likely they'll go quiet for a few years while growing unnoticed.”
I strongly agree with all the other sentences you wrote. But this one quite literally made me laugh out loud.
There is some (imo small) chance that *other* parts of the left coalition will do as you suggest and go quiet on censorship for a few years. The chance that *academia* will is less than slim. It is none.
As a non-trivial example, do you think the UC system in California will back off on its DEI statement requirements for promotion and hiring there? It has been going on for 5 years now. You’re expecting it to stop?
I meant quiet in the sense of being ignored by the general culture. They'll be screaming at each other within academia but pop culture will be cleaning house, and so Wokeism/DEI/Marcuse-ism will fade from public awareness for a while.
But much like the 1980s, they'll be building up within the education establishment while we all enjoy our DEI-free culture ("Top Gun 3! The completion of the Maverick Trilogy!"). At some point, a decade or more out, the new conservative cycle will lose momentum and the Wokies will emerge again.
If there were not right-of-center media, if we were back in, say, 2005, you could be right.
Given that there is such media (there are other reasons, too, but this single one is sufficient), the chances of the fading awareness you cite are zero.
This is a lesson to remain vigilant. We may be feeling triumphant because of the recent election results but their philosophies are not defeated. More likely they'll go quiet for a few years while growing unnoticed. Censorship will not completely end. And work will be done to prepare for the next cycle.
“More likely they'll go quiet for a few years while growing unnoticed.”
I strongly agree with all the other sentences you wrote. But this one quite literally made me laugh out loud.
There is some (imo small) chance that *other* parts of the left coalition will do as you suggest and go quiet on censorship for a few years. The chance that *academia* will is less than slim. It is none.
As a non-trivial example, do you think the UC system in California will back off on its DEI statement requirements for promotion and hiring there? It has been going on for 5 years now. You’re expecting it to stop?
https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/01/wokeademia.html
I meant quiet in the sense of being ignored by the general culture. They'll be screaming at each other within academia but pop culture will be cleaning house, and so Wokeism/DEI/Marcuse-ism will fade from public awareness for a while.
But much like the 1980s, they'll be building up within the education establishment while we all enjoy our DEI-free culture ("Top Gun 3! The completion of the Maverick Trilogy!"). At some point, a decade or more out, the new conservative cycle will lose momentum and the Wokies will emerge again.
I’m noticing a rising chorus of people speaking out and pushing back. I am heartened by this.
Extreme movements like this rarely last. Americans are naturally anti-authoritarian. We don’t like leashes.
If there were not right-of-center media, if we were back in, say, 2005, you could be right.
Given that there is such media (there are other reasons, too, but this single one is sufficient), the chances of the fading awareness you cite are zero.
Most likely we will spiral into further polarization on both sides. Without anyone to unite Americans with a positive vision, the center cannot hold.
That is work that FAIR is hoping to do (and, in my humble opinion, is doing).
fairforall.org