Apparently, if I note that someone is using Foucauldian ideas, it's code for "I am a sexist & racist phrenology-advocating eugenicist.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Ppl take such huge leaps. They make connections in their own minds from one view to a whole field of others & argue against them.
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Not once did I claim to have knowledge of whether criminality is heritable or a prescription for what to do abt it & in fact, I have neither
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Yet my observation that someone was expressing Foucauldian ideas (which I do have knowledge of) & opinion that this is bad was read as both
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After assuming I am claiming this knowledge & prescribing eugenics, he thanked me for the conversation. Had to point out we didn't have one.
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That exchange really did end quite abruptly.
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I think he realised he was assuming I have a position on the heritability of criminality when in fact I don't.
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