The Feedback Loop Between Theorists and Activists

I think we saw, we tended to refer to it as a kind of virus so that that first burst of postmodernism it stayed in the academy because nobody could really understand it if they were outside it. But when it came back it came back in conjunction with radical politics. And it had the ability then to be seized upon by an average person who hasn't spent years studying postmodern philosophy but has got their allegiance in this kind of identity politics radicalism. So that's why it has been able to spread so much more easily and then in the 30 years since this has been happening. A 10 year old could read and understand Robin DiAngelo quite easily,. There's that seductive nature