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This op-ed piece from these two members of academe caused a lot of outrage!

They might have written 100% truth, but that won't save them from the Leftists who win by tearing down social order.

"But restoring the hegemony of the bourgeois culture will require the arbiters of culture — the academics, media, and Hollywood — to relinquish multicultural grievance polemics and the preening pretense of defending the downtrodden. Instead of bashing the bourgeois culture, they should return to the 1950s posture of celebrating it."

Like a friend of mine used to say: "you know what 'fat chance' means?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/08/29/the-bourgeois-culture-controversy/?utm_term=.a9a7ee8d03f3

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450996/penn-law-school-amy-wax-open-letter-condemns-wax-bourgeois-values-op-ed

This cultural script began to break down in the late 1960s. A combination of factors — prosperity, the Pill, the expansion of higher education, and the doubts surrounding the Vietnam War — encouraged an antiauthoritarian

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They seem to be suggesting that an Authoritarian society is a successful society. That doesn't seem very American.

errc says

antiauthoritarian

I think "anti authority" would have been a better way to describe it. What they propose would actually be good for any society.

P N Dr Lo R says

errc says

antiauthoritarian

I think "anti authority" would have been a better way to describe it. What they propose would actually be good for any society.

An unquestioning populace, who prioritize respect for authority over doing what is right? Obedience is not a virtue.

That sounds wholly anti-American. Hell, we usually wind up going to war to destroy those kind of societies

errc says

An unquestioning populace, who prioritize respect for authority over doing what is right?

I don't believe having respect for the proper types of authority such as in the classroom and of law enforcement amounts to an "unquestioning populace".