Well on the other side of things (and perhaps this has always been around, to a degree), plenty of young people (at least young lefties <25) hold up a very plain, black and white worldview. Informed by much of the cultural revisionism, as positive as those developments otherwise are, there seems to be a sensibility of conflating immorality with perpetuating current intersectional power arrangements.
That is, the core of what makes one immoral, much like the overton window, is seemingly being shifted to overlap with the discourse on demographic inequality. (aside, I think the overton model can apply to infinitely more than policy acceptance - it can refer to how a spectrum transforms)
Does anyone else see this? I've heard some voices on the reactionary left call it moral authoritarianism, which I think is a bit extreme, but the point is there.
Anyway, so if this black and white sensibility is already securing itself in the ground, then further reinforcement from the academic elite could change things even further, no? A bit scary to think about.
That said, I don't know of any academic elite types who are pushing this - but maybe I'm just unaware. Or maybe
@entertainment meant something other than academic elite by "crit theory bunch".