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As Sunder rightly points out, the sample Kaufmann presents as representative of "liberal opinion" in his latest Quillette diatribe is nothing of the sort. The items he presents as demonstrating evidence of liberal support for a cultural revolution are also nothing of the sort 1/? https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1275899040337661953
Here are the items he finds majority support for among his (unrepresentative) sample of (self-identified) liberals:
Rebalancing art in museums to better reflect national demography
Public consultation on a new national anthem better reflecting diversity
Rewilding parks 2/?
Rebalancing art in museums to better reflect national demography
Public consultation on a new national anthem better reflecting diversity
Rewilding parks 2/?
[ctd] Rebalancing history curricula
Rebalancing public statues by removing white and replacing with other groups
"Gradually replace" older buildings with new ones that "don't perpetuate a Eurocentric order" (nope, me neither)
3?
Rebalancing public statues by removing white and replacing with other groups
"Gradually replace" older buildings with new ones that "don't perpetuate a Eurocentric order" (nope, me neither)
3?
Leaving aside that his items would be knocked back by any serious survey organisation because they are lengthy, full of vague phrases and abstract nouns, and often ambiguous, what does this amount to exactly? 4/?
5/? "Liberals would like some adjustments to public space, museums, curriculums, and public buildings, slowly, and with public consent." That's what I would consider an accurate summary of what people have indicated support for. How does Kaufmann describe it?
"A de-Europeanizing cultural revolution revolution", a "radical blow to American cultural nationhood" and "the destruction of American distinctiveness".
(thread got broken somehow, here's the rest) https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1276080645857558528
