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Yes. I criticise postmodernism & Social Justice scholarship while defending liberalism & secularism. Both of these are products of western civilisation but the former is an intellectual development specific to the west while the latter are principles held by people everywhere. https://twitter.com/Nahn99437571/status/1304003225402650624
I don't like the concept of "Western Civilisation" as a set of values that need protecting because it doesn't make much sense historically and because the values that really do need protecting are much broader human ones whose advocates need supporting wherever they are.
For example, when you ask someone speaking protectively of "Western Civilisation" what they mean by this, they'll often reference 'Judeo-Christian values' but the history of the west features a hell of a lot of Christian persecution of Jews so this is incoherent at best.
It also tries to conflate many inconflatable things like religious conservatism & secular liberalism when these were actually opposing currents & while we are definitely living in the results of the friction between them, they cannot be tied up neatly with a bow as some do.
Also, when people speak glowingly of 'Western Civilisation"they are almost never including two major intellectual developments that had huge influence on the west - Marxism & postmodernism - but are explicitly opposed to both of them, often while falsely conflating them.
In the end, we see that people speaking positively of 'Western Civilisation" are really defending a mirage that amounts to 'All the good things I fear are being attacked & undermined by culturally relative leftists who see the west as an oppressive force to be criticised."
Ultimately, the arguments about "Western Civilisation" amount to two groups of people who have a very similar idea of it as a specific set of ideas but disagree about whether they are the best thing ever or a morally abhorrent oppressive regime.
Meanwhile, the rest of us, and particularly liberal humanists & secularists tend to have a more granular & accurate view of the history of the west as including a lot of very different values and ideas which need arguing for or against specifically.
We touched on this in Cynical Theories when we said:
