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Politics, terror and academic misery

08:0716/01/2016, Saturday
U: 16/01/2016, Saturday
Yasin Aktay

The attempt to evaluate political attitudes through academic scales, seeing academic titles, positions or discourses as the verification or legitimizer of political attitudes, simply put, is a bad exploitation of knowledge. But this exploitation is also the primary tactic of efforts to slyly oppress the political area of a positivist ideology. Political engineering was quite skilled at deriving justification and legitimization for itself from scientific validity or the power of knowledge in the

The attempt to evaluate political attitudes through academic scales, seeing academic titles, positions or discourses as the verification or legitimizer of political attitudes, simply put, is a bad exploitation of knowledge. But this exploitation is also the primary tactic of efforts to slyly oppress the political area of a positivist ideology. Political engineering was quite skilled at deriving justification and legitimization for itself from scientific validity or the power of knowledge in the formation of the modern world.









These academics, most of whom are social scientists, being so far from reality and surrendering to the propaganda of an organization that is a party in the matter, is an approach that would paralyze the practice and faculty of social science.








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