I posted this on YouTube but will share here as well...
I think it's unfair, and somewhat disingenuous, similar to many of the victim-centric arguments on the Left, to say that "Black intellectualism has declined in quality due to white people." That's a convenient scapegoat, but still only a scapegoat. I sense that Glenn was just being ironic in saying that, but the larger point is still important. Seems clear that people like Kendi are not qualified to even comment on the startling level of scholarship of someone like West. So, the decline is perplexing. Then again, maybe there is not really a decline, but an ascendence of ideas we find less-than-intellectual? One man's decline is another man's "we finally getting ours!" 😁
One way of reformulating Glenn’s point is to say that the decline has been largely audience or market driven, with White liberals as the dominant market bloc and White moral insecurity in the age of Obama and social media creating conditions where an increasingly primitive simple-mindedness would crowd out the rest of the market by the summer of 2020.
I posted this on YouTube but will share here as well...
I think it's unfair, and somewhat disingenuous, similar to many of the victim-centric arguments on the Left, to say that "Black intellectualism has declined in quality due to white people." That's a convenient scapegoat, but still only a scapegoat. I sense that Glenn was just being ironic in saying that, but the larger point is still important. Seems clear that people like Kendi are not qualified to even comment on the startling level of scholarship of someone like West. So, the decline is perplexing. Then again, maybe there is not really a decline, but an ascendence of ideas we find less-than-intellectual? One man's decline is another man's "we finally getting ours!" 😁
good point , we have the rise of the pseudo intellectual and they come in all shapes and sizes
One way of reformulating Glenn’s point is to say that the decline has been largely audience or market driven, with White liberals as the dominant market bloc and White moral insecurity in the age of Obama and social media creating conditions where an increasingly primitive simple-mindedness would crowd out the rest of the market by the summer of 2020.
totally, why the hell would someone pay thousands to have dinner with a person to be lectured about privileges
That's a fascinating approach and one with which I have no disagreement. Thanks!