"What We Can Know and How We Can Know It"

"Claims to truth are merely claims to power. That's what people are asked to become 'awake' to: that liberalism is a lie. As are its purported values. Free speech is therefore not always a way to figure out the truth; it is just another way in which power is exercised—to harm the marginalized. The idea that a theory can be proven or disproven by the empirical process is itself a white supremacist argument, denying the 'lived experience' of members of identity groups that is definitionally true, whatever the 'objective' facts say. And our minds and souls and institutions have been so marinated in white supremacist culture for so long, critical theorists argue, that the system can only be dismantled rather than reformed. The West's idea of individual freedom—the very foundation of the American experiment—is, in their view, a way merely to ensure the permanent slavery of the non-white."

Andrew Sullivan at The Weekly Dish explains what he sees as the threat to liberalism.

And later he argues that liberals can "use liberal means—airing this topic, exposing its arguments, decoding its language, explaining its ultimately totalitarian logic—to beat this illiberal menace in the field of public opinion."