My friend told me about the Critical Approaches to Diversity section on her syllabus, and wondered if--since I like the professor--if it would be Critical in a heterodox way?
I said that no, it is likely to be the orthodoxy, but that doesn't mean he's not a good professor or academic.
In fact, he is a good, responsible academic because he is going with the orthodoxy, and he's not an expert on this particular area. So he is deferring to the experts, and that's good.
What went wrong in this case is that the expertise is illegitimate due to institutional capture because the usual epistemic forces that govern scholarship do not function normally on these issues.
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