Red Baron is appalled by the extent the wokeness has reached. Anyone who
criticizes 'woke' theories that advocate for the oppressed automatically makes
common cause with the oppressors. This divides the world into strict
categories of good and evil, and wokeness exerts moral pressure to silence its
critics.
Even in a factual debate, criticizing wokeness is impossible because it
makes itself irrefutable: It rejects scientific objectivity as a fairy tale of
white, patriarchal, Western-individualistic knowledge production. Michel
Foucault should have already stated that every claim to truth, including that
of science, is nothing other than a claim to power.
And even worse. Wokeness scrutinizes every even thoughtless statement
for political correctness, and if it doesn't meet the standard, it is
denigrated as hate speech.
In his lecture at the Museumsgesellschaft Science and Freedom of Opinion in the Whirlwind of Contemporary Cultural Wars, Prof. Rainer Asch discussed the limits that wokeness imposes on freedom of opinion in science. Do scientists have to bend politically correct, for example, when justifying the financing of their research projects? Isn't this opening the floodgates to hypocrisy because the proposed project could fail without great overcautiousness in the wording?
Universities feel compelled to establish professorships or academic positions dedicated to critical race theory, diversity (LGBTQ+ studies), and social justice in inclusivity and that critically assess how language and behavior impact marginalized communities. These institutions develop a life of their own.
Cancel culture can erase parts of our history, such as renaming the Eberhard Karls University ofTübingen. Canceling the founder's name for Eberhard Karl was an anti-Semite like many of his contemporaries.
For Red Baron, above all, the corruption of the German language is an abomination. It all started with the Green Party, which introduced the gender starlet in November 2016. What is simply called migrants in English will become one word in German, too, using a starlet: Migrant*innen.
In his lecture at the Museumsgesellschaft Science and Freedom of Opinion in the Whirlwind of Contemporary Cultural Wars, Prof. Rainer Asch discussed the limits that wokeness imposes on freedom of opinion in science. Do scientists have to bend politically correct, for example, when justifying the financing of their research projects? Isn't this opening the floodgates to hypocrisy because the proposed project could fail without great overcautiousness in the wording?
Universities feel compelled to establish professorships or academic positions dedicated to critical race theory, diversity (LGBTQ+ studies), and social justice in inclusivity and that critically assess how language and behavior impact marginalized communities. These institutions develop a life of their own.
Cancel culture can erase parts of our history, such as renaming the Eberhard Karls University ofTübingen. Canceling the founder's name for Eberhard Karl was an anti-Semite like many of his contemporaries.
For Red Baron, above all, the corruption of the German language is an abomination. It all started with the Green Party, which introduced the gender starlet in November 2016. What is simply called migrants in English will become one word in German, too, using a starlet: Migrant*innen.
This would "correctly" address the two genders, Migranten (male) and
Migrantinnen (female). When written, it is ugly, but what is worse is
when speakers on television try to pronounce the starlet, inserting an
artificial pause between Migrant and innen.
You may think that English-speaking people don't have the same problems as Germanophones. However, there is gender madness at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital (BSUH). It is the first hospital in the UK
to formally implement a gender-inclusive language policy for its maternity
services department, now known as "perinatal services."
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