Differences among us are no cause for alarm

If we want to search for the origins of given “truths” in society, we should ask questions that identify the mechanisms of persuasion in society.
Rather than asking, “Why is there a clash over sex definitions?” or “What are the main arguments?”, we should be asking, “How do societal settings make possible the truth claim that there is only male and female; what regimes of truth enable this; how do narratives of sex emerge?” With these we can uncover the hidden agenda that might go unnoticed. 
Fortunately, there is a school of critical thought that has developed the tools to question narratives that seek to create an impossible coherence in a world of complexity – the dastardly Frankfurt School.
Having read their main texts, I can reassure Mr Pike that they make none of the claims he fears they make. Indeed, they are opposed to the disintegration of the family. But reading their texts will help Mr Pike discover the nefarious forces that made him think otherwise, that made him think there is a “cultural Marxism UK education system”. Let me give him a hint: The three points he imputes to them were first made in the American Catholic weekly The Wanderer in December 2008, some 50 years after the Frankfurt School ceased to exist.
The issues he raises are serious. They require considered thinking on, for example, protecting children and yet not hurting families. But the answer will never be to resort to a fantastical frame of Satanic voices undermining the Good People. This Manichean world-view presumes a stable, unchanging, coherent “West”.
What makes the West the West is precisely its ability to allow contesting ideas over its future, and that is why it is so admired and why Thai students will continue to flock to it. Difference within can be negotiated, mitigated and even celebrated, it need n