It's not but while you are providing the most charitable reading of the foundational documents of intersectionality or Islam or Marxism or whatever, other people are dealing with the reality of ideology in practice. It still does to be charitable when talking to any individual.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
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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Replying to @LTorcello @JeremyPhilosoph
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
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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But if you know of anyone who uses intersectionality & associated concepts of diversity, inclusion etc in a reasonable & rigorous way which includes the value of shared humanity & individuality and viewpoint diversity, please do highlight them to me.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JeremyPhilosoph
Your question above is why I referred you to the Oxford handbook.
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I would genuinely love to find an intersectional or critical race theorist who takes a humanistic approach, supports individuality and sees diversity & inclusion in terms of viewpoints rather than immutable characteristics. Generally, they don't & explain why very explicitly.
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See, for example, Crenshaw, Laude, hooks, Coates, Hill, Wolf, Bailey, Medina, DiAngelo, Dotson, Applebaum, Mills, Boler, Davies, McIntyre, Ahmed & Sullivan, who all take the standpoint epistemology & identity politics approach which I am disagreeing with.
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