What a truly excellent book this is - revelations on every page ;
Madness of Marxist postmodernism and feminism et al
Quote from Page 60 “Madness of Crowds” – Douglas Murray
“ Another curiosity about the intersectional movement is the camouflage it employs. For
aside from McIntosh’s most popular document, the one thing that all the purveyors of the
ideologies of social justice and intersectionality have in common is that their work is
unreadable. Their writing has the deliberately obstructive style ordinarily employed when
someone either has nothing to say or needs to conceal the fact that what they are saying is
not true. Here is one sentence from Judith Butler in full flow _[Judith Butler is one of the _
“gurus” of feminist theory ! Note the comment within these brackets is mine - F]
_The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to _
_structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the_question of temporarlity into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of_Althusserian theory that takes structural tonalities as theoretical objects to one to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the **rearticulation of power… “
Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something. “
End Quote
Quote from Page 61 “Madness of Crowds” – Douglas Murray
“ Still the purveyors of social justice theories have done a job, in providing a library of works
which (however unreadable) present an intellectual framework on top of which political
provisions can be adopted and political claims can be made. Anyone who finds it useful to
argue that gender or race are social constructs can cite endless tenured academics who can
‘prove’ it. A god is made of X, who is then the subject of a study by Y, and before long Z
comes along to write on the rearticulation of temporality demonstrated by any Althusserian
comparison of their work.
Any student wondering whether the world really works like this
can be instantly presented with an intimidating library of intimidating evidence that the gobbledygook he is failing to comprehend is his fault and not the fault of the writer of the gobbledygook. [My Bold] ……………
…………[Some text omitted ]
………One of the most beautiful things to happen in recent years was “The Conceptual Penis
as a Social Construct”. This was an academic paper published in 2017 which proposed that ;
_**“………..The penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. We argue that the **_
conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a gender-
performative, highly fluid social construct……”
The claim was peer-reviewed and published in an academic journal called Cogent Social
Sciences. The only problem was that it was a hoax carried out by two academics – Peter
Boghossian and James Lindsay who had immersed themselves in the academic literature of our time. ….”
End quote
Murray then goes on to demonstrate that with the correct type of language structure –
basically any old rubbish can and has been successfully “Peer-reviewed” and published
many times – basically because there is no way of knowing what is the “rubbish” submitted
by the hoaxers and what is the gobbledygook submitted as supposedly serious articles.
This in turn leads us to conclude that even these supposed “academics” whilst castigating
the “student” for his fault in “not understanding”, simultaneously have no understanding
themselves !
One can only speculate that the real reason for “their” ever more ridiculous assertions can
only be that they are motivated by;
Power
Money
And/or “fame”
NOTE _ apologies for the state of the post - I did th original in Word then copied and pasted - but it disappeared off the edge of the page - so I opened it with notepad and tried again - This is the result.