Please don't start flame-war topics on HN. This is way out of scope for the article. The GP was simply saying that when you study the humanities, you read a lot of different POVs, and those help you to understand that your way of thinking might not always be perfect, or the best, but that there are many angles to looking at a problem. Thanks!
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
You're painting things with too broad of a brush. Not only do things vary by professor and institution, the issues you raise aren't particularly relevant ir prominent to a course on Shakespeare's Tragedies, Ancient Rome, most of the field of linguistics... I could go on.
Critics in this area have latched on to a few prominent outliers or bad actors and used that to create a false narrative about the entire system.
You are right. What is happening in the major universities is not representative of the majority of universities. Therefore I agree that, depending on where you look and how you look at it, the state of the humanities is largely intact.
I think, though it is a leap, that the current <insert-dogma-of-the-day> will extend downstream but who knows...
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
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