It’s almost never just one bad idea. More often than not, the sort of activist who makes a career of political agitation — even from within the confines of an ostensibly apolitical institution — is beholden to a constellation of misconceptions and rationalizations that justify even the most self-destructive endeavors.
Sometimes, that condition can be hard to identify in the wild. That’s why we should be grateful to Brooklyn College professor of political science and gender studies Paisley Currah. In his latest contribution to the New Yorker, he made that task easy.
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