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Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi: The Homogeneous Trap

January 21, 2024
Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi  makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”.  It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French revolution and its aftermath, and as selectively applied the thinking in the framework of […]

Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi  makes claims of “dogmatic affirmation of diversity as a sacred value by an equally one-sided assertion of homogeneity”.  It is ‘culture-history warfare’ dribble. He has selectively used Garsten (2017) on the case of the French revolution and its aftermath, and as selectively applied the thinking in the framework of Mill and Adorno. It is unconvincing as it does not go to address the contemporary literature on diversity.  Furedi writes instrumentally to aid a polemic cause.

 

I refer to Hemline controversy as examined in Alexander Jabbari’s  “As Where Religion and Neoliberal Diversity Tactics Converge” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2023 (https://www.chronicle.com/article/where-religion-and-neoliberal-diversity-tactics-converge).

 

The far better understanding of diversity is seen from Daan F. Oostveen’s “Hermeneutical Explorations of Multiple Religious Belonging”  (https://www.academia.edu/44635576/Hermeneutical_explorations_of_multiple_religious_belonging).

 

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Background note: I thought I had paid for “Roots & Wings with Frank Furedi”, as I had get his full blog articles as emails. But to comment on his blog you have to upgrade your payment to Substack. I find Substack a gathering of rightwing commentators who have their heads in the sand, by almost completely ignoring the scholarship, both inside and outside the University. Certainly, the polemics is uncritical thinking.

 

Well, you will not be charged a cent for my blog articles and I speak to the best of the scholarship.

 

FUREDI’S REFERENCES

 

1. Garsten, B. (2017) ‘From popular sovereignty to civil war in post-revolutionary France’ in Bourke, R & Skinner, Q, (2017) (eds) Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press : Cambridge, p.255.

 

2. Cited in Levin, M. (2004) Mill on Civilization and Barbarism. London : Taylor and Francis.

 

3. Levin (2004).

4. Adorno, T.W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D.J. and Sanford, R.N., (1969) The authoritarian personality, W.W. Norton & Company : New York., pp. 485-486.

 

5. Lasch, C., 1996. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. WW Norton & Company : New York, p.17.

 

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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