“If they can find time for feminist theory, they can find time for Edmund Burke.”
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“If they can find time for feminist theory, they can find time for Edmund Burke.”
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Well, no, they can’t. *Nobody* talks about the ideas of Edmund Burke in the faculty lounge. Lots of name dropping of leading names in feminist (and queer, and class, and race theory).
I suspect it all has to do with appeals to (selected) authority, rather than to analysis of the ideas. “Critical thinking” winds up being an exercise in operant conditioning of accepting uncritically a logical fallacy.