Reflecting on a surprisingly sane and progressive term
In my first year at Cambridge, I became convinced that I would not be able to find any sort of proper leftist circle while at uni. Some…
In my first year at Cambridge, I became convinced that I would not be able to find any sort of proper leftist circle while at uni. Some lecture materials were getting ‘trigger warnings’, Linda Bellos was no-platformed, the identity politics hysteria reached the curriculum and figures like Weber and Marx were characterized as “dead white men”. Moreover, I was saddened to see that roles which were created to protect the interests of historically marginalized people became available to anyone who identified as a member of such groups (yes, now it isn’t just women, but BME, sometimes even working class, etc. have all became identities to claim individually, instead of collectively). Sigh..
But luckily, this year I feel much more hopeful. It seems as though more people have reached ‘peak-snowflake’ and turned towards the critiques of …