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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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
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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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
I think we'd consider ourselves that!
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
I suspect there are other reasonable peopke who disagree with you.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
Yes, but if they disagree with me on the issues & values I hold, I can't coherently consider them reasonable on those issues & values. If I did, I'd change my own to them & we'd no longer be in disagreement. I could find them reasonable more broadly if we disagree on one thing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
We disagree. I take it we are able to do so because of reasonableness and not despite it.
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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
I have not heard any arguments from you for intersectionality. I have no idea what your reasoning abilities are like. So far, I only know that you are polite and have not said anything unreasonable.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
I agree with Crenshaw's use of the term. I think it misleading to paint it as an ideology invading humanities departments. I think social justice and identity politics ought not be used as derisive descriptions--and that being unreasonable and irrational are different things.
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Finally (I'm going to bed) the fact that some are now attempting to dismiss concern over climate change as rooted in "social justice identity politics" illustrates one additional reason I cringe every time I hear hasty generalizations being made about such concepts. Goodnight.
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Yes, but we've never disagreed about the problem of making hasty generalizations about concepts.
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