Cultural relativity & commitment to human rights, equality &freedom are incompatible whether you're using it to demonise or defend a culture
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Cultural relativism and social justice are incompatible.No social justice when different elements of society are held to different standards
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Its incoherent. Just been speaking to someone deeply concerned about Muslim women's wellbeing & motivated to deny the main threat to it.
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People say I just talk too much to SocJus extremists & society as a whole is more balanced. No. Look. Compare figures.pic.twitter.com/4jNN16BI1q
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If plan 2 reduce honour violence had received 1/5th of sigs 1 to criminalise worryingly vague 'misogyny' had, parliament wld have to respond
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It is tempting to claim western feminists only care abt selves to 'shame' them into supporting Muslim feminists working on these issues 1/2
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but this would be untrue & miss the actual problem which is not a lack of care but inconsistent principles and misdirected support. 2/2
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how are you defining "your own culture"? What do you mean by "addressing"? We concern ourselves mostly w what we can influence
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In this context, I was talking abt western liberals only caring abt Muslim women being harmed by white non-Muslim westerners.
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perhaps this kind of harm is all they feel they have a chance of preventing thru influencing perceptions in their own society
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Have a look at the conversation. Talking abt ppl who defend Islam, deny problems, throw liberal Muslims under the bus.
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Make everything abt how evil the west is. The masochistic self-hating far left.
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I understand that. I was offering plausible partial explanations as to how they might have ended up this way
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I think they end up this way due to the identitarian, academic leftist ideas of cultural relativity, privileged & oppressed groups
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I don't think anyone gets to this stage via a reasonable route of acknolwedging all problems but focusing more on own group.
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ironically, those who only decry HR abuses from their own culture also decry focusing on disaster victims from their own culture
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I know less about this but that would be entirely consistent with the mentality I see!
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it’s that “oh, four people died in a train crash, what about the FOUR HUNDRED dead in a Chinese earthquake, you racist!”
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Oh yes! I see that. The idea that our tendency to focus on smaller tragedies closer to home reveals racism & xenophobia.
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yes. Yet giving attention to tragedies elsewhere caused by some of the people who live there…not so popular
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Reason and consistent principles go out of the window when ideologues ideologue.
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