when an academic confidently states that debate is ‘an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis-heteropatriarchal technique that transforms a potential exchange of knowledge into a tool of exclusion and oppression’, many of us will now simply shrug, reconciled to the fact that such mechanical prattle now passes for scholarly thought. Such people are the most arcane of theologians, spinning their gods into existence through their orotund and empty words. If such people really are on ‘the right side of history’, we are doomed to a future in which no one will be able to communicate with
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