Yes, that must be it. Thanks for playing. https://twitter.com/littmath/status/1279700988660768768

One thing that is totally bewildering right now is the number of people who accept these two premises:

1) Social justice is very important.
2) Some of the scholarship into it is crazy & unethical.

Also believe:
3) Criticising the crazy & unethical scholarship is bad.

I try to assume everyone is sincere & well-intentioned, but if you are instinctively defending Critical Social Justice scholarship & activism while having a limited understanding of it & refusing to look at any evidence of the problem, do you actually care about social justice?

You might do! I understand that no-one has the time or inclination to get into the details of everything. Sometimes we just need to support something that we know is important but don't fully understand. eg, I support Cancer Research w/out reading any of the research.

But if someone came to me and said "There's a real problem with the research and it's hurting the very people it's supposed to be helping" my instinct would not be to say "But cancer is bad & curing cancer is good so you must just hate people with cancer."

I would want to know if what they said was true. I probably wouldn't drop everything and learn to understand cancer research and read a tonne of it but if I cared about cancer sufferers & wanted to continue to contribute to helping them survive, I would pay attention.

I would want to see qualified medical researchers addressing the alleged problem & breaking the arguments down for the layperson so that they could be better informed about what they are supporting financially & ethically.

Cancer research is important so getting it right matters. Social justice is also important. Here I am a qualified person saying there is a problem that actually harms the cause of social justice & the people it is intended to help. I am not evil or an opponent of social justice.

There are people I respect who disagree with me. They either think that CSJ approaches have more worth than I think or that they don't but are also not doing any real harm. They recognise that I know what I am talking about & am critiquing it accurately & with good motivations.