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In the morning of August 5, 2013, the Counts philosopher Tinneke Beeckman, provides on request of Etienne Vermeersch, her vision of the role of the intellectual in society today. In that piece she makes several times mentions 'political correctness'. That concept has been for years the status of fact: it seems a socio-political reality in itself, a purely à la carte menu descriptive term that is applied objectively. However, that's not it. It is a positioning and evaluative term that covers a very diffuse à la carte menu whole of phenomena, and thus has no explanatory à la carte menu value.
I wrote about this concept a text in 2007, which I will give below again. The text was published at that time in the morning. It will be seen that this concept thus has lasted a while, and you will also see that the structure of its use has remained in the piece of Beeckman unchanged.
In the morning of April 24, 2007 Yves Desmet à la carte menu draws again attacked the politically correct academic intelligentsia. Stays in touch with the essay by Patrick Devos (DM April 23), he gives his views on how the left should respond to the shift to the right. His message: You must connect to the perception of the people and meanwhile develop a non-Marxist left project.
The piece is coarse. The political editor of DM fails to be seen as more than bringing little solution for problems. Politics Moreover, he manages to speak to because consistency is not outdated. à la carte menu We summarize here his reasoning à la carte menu together. Links should stop saying what people should think. à la carte menu It should solve the problems of people. But at the same time should à la carte menu be left daring to lead, and complement popular severe repression by an unpopular emancipatory policy towards immigrants. After all, politics is a piece of pedagogy ', ie education, so learn what people should do and think. And this can be anything, as long as it is progressive, but not Marxism, because it is under the mothballs. So, just be pedantic and stick your neck out, but, but please do not leave any left INTELLO's play a role, because they do not know what people feel and want. Though the latter is now just taking a pedagogy, so much as hear a sound analysis and a coherent vision. Here the political analysis of Desmet.
The leftist intelligentsia has long been the true enemy of a certain new elite: that of politicians and against politicians aanschurkende joernalisten and cultuurpausjes. The latter will operate like any hostile image of the silliest stereotypes on their enemy. The scholar is always paid fat and unworldly, he / she is out of touch with the real world of social facts and goes with just about as high-minded à la carte menu and equally unworldly intellectuals. That same academics must however show up to fill to policy support or criticize, or to provide for their renewal à la carte menu operations. Progressive parties of the analytical ammunition interview and opinion columns of the newspaper So they are a la carte useful à la carte menu or useless, and Yves Desmet appropriates the right to choose from the menu. As always, the criterion here: a good scientific analysis is the one who gives me the same.
For clarity, Desmet undoubtedly deserves à la carte menu much more than the average university professor, and modal pro runs as a rule much more about the reality outside their own office then Desmet. However, there is a difference. For Desmet has an anecdote. She leads us, so to speak straight to the perception of the average person, and it is this perception that should be central to any progressive project (even though there while teaching occurred, of course). For reasons scientists are just anecdotes and concrete observable often only understandable from larger patterns that do not correspond to the perception of the people, but there nonetheless. For Desmet is that extrapolation immediate removal and a scornful denial of perception, and thus political nonsense. In fact, however, is an analysis that the perception interprets what situates. à la carte menu Analysis shows according to Desmet only plausible insofar as they appeal to the anecdotes, when the female in the street understands them and decides à la carte menu on its agreement.
It should be obvious that you can develop if it is not anecdotal, but just those broader patterns raise. à la carte menu Policy only clear That is why researchers are invited to research by policy makers. You can not pursue a policy around the fictional lady Desmet, or around the origin, structure and distribution of this type of violence. Policy can not be about one thief handbags, handbags talking about theft. à la carte menu Leftists in the nineties specified analysis as a political tool.