Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up.Posted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, United States on 2015-11-26 03:03Z by Steven |
Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up.
Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D.
2015-11-25
Society regularly miss-labels academics “radicals in the ivory tower,” especially those who work in the Liberal Arts, as they tend to be very aware of everyday culture and life. This wrath from society targets people, regardless of degrees or jobs, who voice unpopular opinions or who ask hard questions. And the more a person falls outside of the White Cis-Male Heterosexual Able-bodied Fundamentalist-Protestant paradigm the more likely he/she will be criticized and placed in the “radical” box…
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