My academic and professional backgrounds are in psychology, philosophy, and religion. I am quite familiar with academia, thank you.
A simple answer to your question is that not everything new is necessarily better or more useful.
http://publicautonomy.org/2014/01/27/the-rise-of-the-post-new-left-political-vocabulary/
If we were both professors at a college in the same department with different views, this would be no issue. We would debate with research, scholarship, and civility. Our positions might never change, and that would be just fine.
DU is a social networking culture which is very different. The accepted meme here of 'privilege theory' can not be challenged either civilly, rationally, or intellectually. I disagree with the theory and its current usage.
I won't, however, get into a protracted and emotional debate about it with you as obviously due to the fact that we are discussing it here at DU, we do agree on much when it comes to politics, policy, and the way we would like to see this country governed.
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