This apparent agreement about educational radicalism should be caveated by the fact that the two sides apply vastly different scales to what they consider radical outcomes. According to the enemies of Woke Indoctrination, academic education is so powerful that it can even make young people doubt empirical realities like their biological sex, or historical realities like the benefits of empire. Successive moral panics from the right, a particularly intense case of which is currently underway, affirm this from the other side rightwing attacks on ‘Woke Indoctrination’ are now a constant feature of rightwing rhetoric across the anglosphere, and sadly have been incorporated into actual policy by some governments, with predictably chaotic results. Since at least the early 1980s, it has not been hard to find scholarly books in the Humanities – certainly in my own field of literary studies – implicitly or explicitly claiming a politically radical potential for their work. At least until recently, it seemed that rightwingers and leftwing academics generally agree about the radical influence of higher education on younger generations.
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