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Media & EventsJane Fenton: As a professor of social work, I saw how today’s obsession with victimhood is endangering all of us, Telegraph, 14 May
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8515765885a18dfb
Jane Fenton, How critical social justice theory fuels the expansion of disability adjustments in universities, Scottish Union for Education – Newsletter No154
https://substack.com/home/post/p-192912361 I want to address a related issue that troubled me throughout my academic career in a Scottish university: the accelerating, and increasingly unmanageable, pathologising of personality traits, eccentricities, and especially basic skills deficits as ‘disabilities’ requiring ‘adjustments’. This trend is intimately connected to critical social justice theory’s power-and-privilege model, and much of what is…
‘White guilt, Canadian style,’ Without Diminishment
https://www.withoutdiminishment.com/p/white-guilt-canadian-style Shelby Steele and his son Eli are releasing a new documentary, White Guilt, that should be compulsory viewing for anyone interested in Canada’s cultural malaise. Steele’s thesis, which originally grew out of the post-civil rights American context, has become increasingly relevant for understanding how English Canada went off the rails culturally, beginning in the…
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