Critical Theory Is Just Word Games

And bullshit

A while ago, I came across a truly incredible clip by an OAN producer. I no longer have the original video, but I recorded it on my phone—here’s the transcript:

Where does radical leftist gender ideology lead? Do liberals want human children to be genderless? If so, why? Is this based on biology? And if not, then what? What happens when human children are raised genderless? If gender is destroyed, doesn’t that destroy traditional gender roles? And if gender roles are destroyed, doesns’t that destroy gendered relationships? And if gendered relationships are destroyed, doesn’t that destroy traditional marriage? And if traditional marriage is destroyed, doesns’t that destroy the family unit? And if people don’t depend on their families, who do they depend on? That’s right, the government.

This is, of course, ridiculous. There is no coordinated, organized plot among liberal elites to push radical leftist gender ideology so that, twenty-seven steps later, people are dependent on the government. This is the type of insane lunacy that only passes as thoughtful analysis on OAN.

Or in modern left-wing academia.

Academia has been a propaganda tool for a long time, not because of any coordinated scheme, but just because it’s filled with left-wingers funded by left-wing administrators. Many of the fields are non-empirical, so they become obsessed with making left-wing platitudes sound profound. As a result, they end up churning out bullshit papers, as long as they fit a vaguely left-wing agenda. They end up tolerating plagiarism, as long as it’s done by a progressive, supporting low-quality research, as long as it aims to “problematize” some benign-seeming feature of Western civilization.