rickenvox
Animal Psychic
I was thinking specifically about people who are subject to be drawn in by people like Jones. As far as what you're calling SJW and your friends, that's anecdotal. I know boomers who "get" all of that and there are varying degrees of getting it. For example just in linguistics there are people I know who are LGBT who want to do doctoral work related to gender pronouns. But there is an underlying understanding in linguistics that languages evolve naturally and that you can't create new terms and just "expect" them to be adopted. They might, they might not. "Ms" was eventually adopted although it's beginnings were strained and forced and many people reacted exactly the same to that as people today would resist more than 2 genders. Native American languages always had multiple words for genders that recognized all kinds of differences. And now people with not just sexual/personality predispositions, but also medical procedures are now being asked to be recognized by their cosmetic medical procedure (saying cosmetic as trans women will never produce eggs, and trans men will never produce sperm). The point is everyone who is at the heart of these issues in universities (from baby boomer professors all the way down to millennials) are engaged in these discussions. So the divisions you're speaking of don't really exist within the disciplines that are actually engaged with the issues. I would be willing to bet that in the trans community these issues would also not be divided by age group.
Now if you're going to bring up (or are even aware of) the controversy with Jordan Peterson, I also wouldn't consider that a clash between generations as the university staff that came against him were all his age.
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