“Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob” —Matthew Goodwin #PoliticsOnTheEdge

“In cahoots with the agenda are a small number of high-profile scholars. ‘Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob’, wrote director of the Centre for UK Prosperity Matthew Goodwin in the Daily Mail in 2021, drawing attention to the posse of ‘rebel’ professors to which he belonged that met in secret to fight the tide of illiberalism. Goodwin is one of several academics who have become adept at securing very public platforms to moan about their experiences of being cancelled. A particular focus for ‘rebel’ scholars seems to be the emergence of so-called grievance fields. Fellow professor of politics, Eric Kaufmann, argued in 2020 that such fields—his examples of which were ‘queer theory, critical race theory, fat studies and critical gender theory’—sustain themselves through moral self-righteousness and the ‘leftist monoculture of the soft social sciences’ that shields them from close scrutiny. Critiques such as Kaufmann’s are invariably based on unlikely personal anecdotes (‘after the seminar, I noticed one especially humourless classmate dressed in proletarian gear flogging the Socialist Worker in the quad’), and receive little scholarly attention. This is often construed as evidence of conspiracy to marginalise. However, a more mundane explanation is that attempting to refute positions based on one person’s feelings, rather than on research evidence, is an unproductive use of other scholars’ time.” --Steven Jones

Quoted from Universities Under Fire 🔥 Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education by Steven Jones dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7

Matthew Goodwin (born 1981) is a British right-wing political commentator, political scientist, and former academic recognised for his research on populism and right-wing movements. He is currently a presenter at GB News. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Goodwin

Academics like me live in fear of the woke hate mob, writes MATTHEW GOODWIN, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9263781/Academics-like-live-fear-woke-hate-mob-writes-politics-professor-MATTHEW-GOODWIN.html

Portrait of Matthew Goodwin by Chatham House from Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Exic

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