This stuff actually, really, matters. People have become POWERFUL by ridiculing the gentle experiments of academic culture, the parts where people poke around with odd ideas, and say things that don't sound like common sense. Things that would often just fade away if they weren't condemned.
Dave Andress
To paraphrase: "Herein, I shall name people who have in many cases become multi-millionaires by holding up tiny, unrepresentative fragments of intellectual life to the ridicule of a mass right-wing audience, I shall say they were often right, and I shall then pretend to criticise them."
Are you anti-woke, or just wounded? Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman draws a sharp line between those who critique bad ideas and those consumed by a narcissistic injury, and shows why that distinction...
