What is it they reject? Having read this article, I don't see why it should be a source of great controversy. Its primary assertion is that different components of one's identity will overlap in ways that can make one particularly vulnerable to certain harms.
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You can do both. I can critique someone's interpretation, or misinterpretation, of a concept while doing justice to that concept. This is my responsibility as a liberal. I don't think using "Identity Politics" as a synonym for relativism, or "SJW" as a slur ever helps.
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Yes and I think I do. I explain intersectionality very charitably here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AvyqUOKhGA … I break down Crenshaw's foundational essays here: http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.com/2017/02/extract-from-essay-of-mine-which-breaks.html … And the book I am currently writing on the subject starts with the good.
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Thanks for sharing, Helen. I'll try to watch this whole thing when I can. You, in particular, seem more charitable than your panel partners so far. I'm struck by how quickly things have gone from critique to castigating opponents as religious zealots in conspiratorial tones.
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Well, we do all think there is a quasi-religious zealotry going on right now which is troubling but we all support liberal aims for gender/racial/LGBT equality. We critique the extremes on both sides. James and I wrote this one:https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Extremes are are one thing but (so far in the video) I'm not hearing any examples of reasonable foils on the other side who aren't "filling a church" when it comes to contemporary scholarship. This strikes me as a problem given the audience of young conservatives...
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And given that the event ia aponsored bu Turning Point USA. Given that I am on their Professor watchlist I'm inclined to view them as part of the extremist problem--looking for catnip.
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I don't really know them. One of them wasn't very happy with my socialist tendencies. I don't know you either tho. You could both be extremists or neither but have a tendency to view each other as extremists.
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But let's end this conversation on a note we might all be able to agree with. To paraphrase J.S. Mill, the person who knows only one side of the argument knows little of that: https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mapping-margins.pdf …
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Indeed. I only discuss topics I know well. And charity is what I advocate frequently. I made this about it. It is still OK to be critical of social movements, epistemologies and ideologies tho.pic.twitter.com/hlsLpjwqtn
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