As I occasionally point out, as somebody employed at the quintessential "academic hothouse", the number of times I heard those terms on campus was close to zero.
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Wait you’ve never heard patriarchy? Or critical theory? These are crucial terms in the humanities (something I wouldn’t want to change!).
aug 24, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It is not that I never hear them, but only when I wander into a humanities seminar. In my corner of the social sciences, they are pretty much absent.
aug 24, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Fair enough—I did conflate "close to zero" with never.
aug 24, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this a problem that can be fixed with a thesaurus or are we being asked to avoid entire concepts? If it's the later, I'm going to have to disagree.
aug 24, 2025, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
But also, if people want to use them, I could care less. Language changes. It rarely has the consequential effects on electoral politics that some imagine.
aug 24, 2025, 12:42 pm • 21 1 • view
Words change, but the words highlighted here will be read by so many ordinary people as saying to ordinary people "you and your lot are bad people". They may not vote Republican (or Reform) but they may just not vote at all. So the Republicans and Reform will win elections.
aug 24, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I genuinely don’t understand why words like “unhoused” bother people. It’s an apt description!
aug 24, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Or food security… that’s a pretty standard issue of concern in clinical medicine and public health.
aug 24, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Deep down, Nichols blames the Democrats for Trump.
aug 24, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view