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Hello there, and thanks for the quick reply. Well, if I may be perfectly honest here., my view on critical theory is.....complicated. https://twitter.com/goshofar/status/1323138019113795584
On one hand.....there *are* legitimate critiques of some aspects of critical theory, and it does have at least a few potential flaws; that much, at least is true.
But any harm that it is alleged to have done has, truthfully, been not rarely wildly and grossly exaggerated-sometimes to astronomical degrees-mostly by hard/far/fringe right pundits with an axe to grind.
You may be aware that critical theory is sometimes implicated in a supposed wave of anti-free speech radicalism on college campuses? Well, as it turns out.....
no such wave has actually been happening. Jeffrey Sachs did a really good thread on this here on Twitter a couple years back. https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/972150713890549760
Now to the last part of my overall point: despite critical theory's flaws(I personally do not subscribe to it as a whole), I have personally come to find that there *are* certain aspects of it that do contain ideas that are at least worth exploring.
Certainly, if nothing else, critical theory *does* encourage one to engage in deeper analysis of history, human behavior, etc., and make one question how things came to be the way they are.....that, at least, is a good thing in my view.
Here is a fairly interesting Medium article by Joshua Burkhart that seems to be pretty well balanced: https://medium.com/@joshuaburkhart/postmodernism-jordan-peterson-critical-theory-4759dbcd3729#:~:text=In%20the%20making%20of%20scientific,and%20accidental%20factors%20are%20involved.&text=That%20critical%20theory%20should%20improve,science%2C%20anthropology%2C%20and%20psychology.
So yeah, that's kinda my perspective in a nutshell.
