It's easy to unintentionally validate the rules of a game you think very wrongheaded by holding the holders to them & it feels fair to do so
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OK, that's confusing. I mean there's a natural temptation to hold our 'enemies' responsible for hypocrisy against their own standards BUT
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This risks supporting those standards when what we really want to do is show that they were bad ones to have in the first place.
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There is value in showing that something doesn't work even by its own standards as long as you don't unwittingly also defend those standards
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eg Claim that cultural appropriation is hurtful to minority cultural groups can be responded to by evidence that most members think its fine
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But then you have to be careful you are not supporting the cultural relativism & identitarianism that underlies this authoritarian impulse.
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It dawned on me after reading about these topics for a while that Americans don't define 'leftist' in the same way Brits do
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No. Or liberal. Brits don't even all define it the same way. It gets very messy.
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I read your article today. Earlier I had been thinking about this in respect of the lust to accept allegationshttps://twitter.com/BowlerBarrister/status/917865086084980736 …
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