The Symbolic Violence of Progressives

Roderick Graham
10 min readMar 7, 2024

I am currently exploring the incorrect, immoral, indecent, or just plain odd behaviors that proliferate in online spaces. As a part of this exploration, I developed a new course for my university, Online Deviance. I am making it up as I go! It’s never advisable to do this, but I’ve learned over time that one grows intellectually when put in situations that require thinking oneself out of them. So, each week, I have to think my way out of the problem of having no content to teach in this new course. It’s painful going through it, for sure. But at the end of the semester, I will have a new…

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Roderick Graham

Gadfly | Professor of Sociology at Old Dominion University | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own