If the claim is that people incorrectly call A, which they don't understand, B, which they also don't understand, then I don't disagree with this. But since they would almost certainly call C, which they also don't understand, B, if they came to think they had thoughts about C or were told by some intellectual hustler that they were supposed to have certain thoughts about C, I think it more accurate to say that they don't mean anything rather than that they are making a discrete mistake.
Maybe there's a connection between that and our lack of anything like Russell's BBC talks on our mass media.
What schools might Obama's kids get into where they wouldn't if they were white?
If the claim is that people incorrectly call A, which they don't understand, B, which they also don't understand, then I don't disagree with this. But since they would almost certainly call C, which they also don't understand, B, if they came to think they had thoughts about C or were told by some intellectual hustler that they were supposed to have certain thoughts about C, I think it more accurate to say that they don't mean anything rather than that they are making a discrete mistake.
Maybe there's a connection between that and our lack of anything like Russell's BBC talks on our mass media.
Loved the send-up.
My assumption is that people mean “critical theorist” when they say “Marxist” these days.
You assume people mean things. The basis for that assumption is shaky.