I am getting very low on patience. I don't know if people really have suddenly got much worse at ethical reasoning or if I'm just noticing it more.
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It's part and parcel of Identity Politics - when people's race, gender or sexuality apparently changes the value of their speech. Every time we see or hear 'as a woman/ POC/ LGBTQ...' exactly the same thing is happening.
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Not sure if you saw this recent example. An intelligent Director of mainstream leftish think tank dismissing a polite disagreement at 'whitesplaining'.https://twitter.com/faizashaheen/status/957331726103207937 …
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She doesn’t say “whitesplaining” here. Did I miss it?
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She writes it in the tweet afterwards.
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Thanks, yes at the end of the tweet I linked to.
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Got it.
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There is a white straight male exception to this rule passed by some comittee in the mid-90's.
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Yes, people seem to be incapable of identifying themselves as human prior to any other predicate. Is the fact that ‘human’ has become an empty concept to so many due, in part, to PoMo thinking or is it all Sartre’s fault?
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Witness the
#NotAllMen trope. Used to shout people down as foolish or sexist or a rape apologist for merely pointing out the banal fact that not all men are violent. It's barely an exaggeration to say it's become a taboo to point out certain facts.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Races are promoted by the ones who claim the rights to call the others 'racists'
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Ditto. Immutable differences and descriptors are what gives us positive or negative value as a person...
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Quite. It's as though feminism isn't about equality any more.
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It has gotten new respect because coming from the ideological side you wouldn't have expected it to come from I guess. Liberalism used to champion individuality but that has been outflanked by an approach whose design better fits power grab urge.
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