It is probably not a coincidence that the people who accuse others of 'telling X group what to think/how to feel' are the same people who don't know how to make an argument & don't even seem to think this is the way to address issues.
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They are the people who think every essay should be about lived experiences or they act as tho they do. They'll tell you (me) angrily that you shouldn't write about issues that don't match your identity & when asked why, reply that its talking for or over that group.
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They accuse men of telling women what it's like to be a woman, white people of telling PoC what its like to be a PoC & trans ppl what it's like to be trans even when they're not writing accounts of experiences but ethical and/or factual arguments.
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This is because they truly think this is where knowledge comes from - where a person is situated by their identity within the epistemological system that is society. An essay on this is forthcoming, btw.
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It is really important to understand the internal logic of this thinking or, more properly, the premises that underlie it. The premises are nuts but the thinking that derives from them is logical. It's a bizarre way of looking at the world but it is more coherent than it seems.
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And we can't counter it if we dismiss it superficially as identity politics, racism, sexism, hypocrisy, inconsistency because that is understanding the visible symptoms through a rational and universal liberal ethic & they're not doing that.
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We need to convince them they should do that but this won't work if we critique them on rational and universal grounds. They already know they don't do that and have no wish to. We must make them wish to & that requires meeting them where they are.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Looking forward to the essay. I understand the point you're making, but I'm unable to coherently clarify them in my head. Hopefully the essay will help.
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