I suspect that those who see our mental culture as fungible in favor of the very specific matter of overturning power differentials are demonstrating the anti-intellectual substrate of being American.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a reason this is resisted officially in France and would never acquire any purchase in Russia where there is a furiously active intelligentsia<\/i><\/b>, and why it is having an effect in Germany where there is understandably always a sense of national guilt about the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s try this. I dismiss claims that it is trivial to be concerned about a paradigm that threatens to overturn our concepts of intellectual inquiry, artistic endeavor and moral perspective. Apparently there are those who consider those things sideshows, things to get to later. I proudly disinclude myself from their number.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>– John McWhorter, Tweeted 24 Feb 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suspect that those who see our mental culture as fungible in favor of the very specific matter of overturning power differentials are demonstrating the anti-intellectual substrate of being American. There\u2019s a reason this is resisted officially in France and would never acquire any purchase in Russia where there is a furiously active intelligentsia, and … <\/p>\n