The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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The "truth university" stuff just looks like a rebrand of anti intellectualism, where they get to choose what counts. Kind of seems like PragerU, which pretends to be a university, but tends to be really dishonest with data, and largely plays on preconceived assumptions.

Ok so from Haidt's perspective
truth university (TU) - seeking knowledge using evidence based approaches
social justice university (SJU) - seeking knowledge using lived experience

According to Haidt and Kaufman SJWs want to elevate the SJU over the TU

Kaufman claims specific disciplines where SJU > TU
For example race studies, cultural studies, indigenous studies, LGBTQI and gender studies.

The underlying principle is that scientific and social disciplines are taught from a western-European cultural bias and secondly that studies that examine (for example) indigenous culture should be driven by lived experience from indigenous people as opposed to non-indigenous people projecting their views as more important than lived experience.

Where kaufman's/Haidt's arguments fall over is the assumption that lived experience in these bespoke areas of research i) apply to STEM ii) that lived experience automatically trumps evidence based research.

What the objection here seems to be is i) minority groups encroaching into disciplines involving their own people and ii) the undermining of evidence based approaches

Both of these arguments are not supported by evidence either of them have provided? It seems they are talking about tripping some type of switch where entertaining SJU will cause science to regress which they then use to unfairly misattribute to label the political left as regressive (I mean why bring politics into this?).

I don't find their arguments intellectually valid or (ironically) evidence based.

In Australia foreign films are considered "fringe"
Indeed we have a "fringe festival" each year that showcases foreign cinema/art etc...

If you are talking about "wokeness" then the mainstream American media is what's relevant.

Oh well it's just since European and Asian cinema does not have woke political correctness in their movies, I was wondering, if that makes them more further ahead of the game in progression, or more behind, or neither?

Oh okay, I guess Hollywood movies feel inauthentic to me compared to non-American movies. America has an indenpendant industry but their is pressure in that industry to go woke as well, as some people in the indie-industry where I live are starting to do it, it seems.

Not of any completed movies. Just ones getting started up right now, with covid dying down.

Oh the last Star Wars movie I saw was The Last Jedi. It was okay, but I lost interest after that and haven't seen any after. Why?

Oh I haven't seen any of those shows and lost interest in Star Wars after The Last Jedi, so I cannot comment on those shows.

But the problem for me, with the woke generation when it comes to entertainment, is that they do not like things that are politically incorrect. Anything that is considered politically incorrect, they want censored. And this is the problem when it comes to fiction writing, because if everything has to be politically correct, then there is no conflict, or if there is, it's very limited conflict, and limited stakes.

So political correctness, and conflict/stakes work against each other, and that is why you cannot have stories that thrive on political correctness, and still expect them to grip people.

A lot of 'woke' people, do not seem to understand this though, or maybe I am wrong, but that is just how it seems...