Even tho the issue at hand was a teacher from a school saying it wasn't appropriate & the school supporting her on this.
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And the fact that practical experience and ethical arguments are very different things.
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Imagine 'My opinion on whether The Sun should have topless models in it is worth more than yours coz I work in a newsagents.'
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Strange arguments are my favourite kind.
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Women having to wear Burqas on the international space station is fine. I'm right on this because I'm an astronaut.
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Who is arguing that women have to wear burkas in schools?
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Nobody is. This is reductio ad absurdum of the principle of claiming to know best ethically coz of practical experience.
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The above post talked about women having to wear them on space stations. Maybe just poor choice of words, maybe a Freudian slip of bigotry.
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Who cares about the value of the argument itself if you can argue on the basis of identity and implied expertise instead?
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A version of the 'lived experience' approach? The appeal of the anecdotal.
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If they majored in Education I automatically deduct 25% in credibility ratio
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That's kind of ironic because I've lived in Pakistan all my life and never had teachers who wore burkha, at least in school.
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I've driven school services that self segregated, no girl who got on in modesty dress got off in it, reverse happened on way home
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Does it shift the balance of the argument if you remind her you work with your brain? Probably not too polite
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"I'm a POC, so my opinion on X is more valid." At least consistent on the issue of who is speaking is more important than what they speak.
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