I wrote about how intersectionality could be valuable if it were part of a liberalism which also valued shared humanity & individuality & didn't box people into acceptable views for their identity like some kind of feudal or cast system.https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …
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But, in practice, it does. I also recognise the drive to 'reclaim' good concepts from bad actors rather than abandon them to them. It's why I hung on to the label of 'feminist' for so long and still respect truly liberal feminists who do this.
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But we need to be careful that we are not prioritising and defending an ideology at the expense of defending actual human beings being harmed by the ideology.
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No point saying that communism, properly understood, is about sharing & fairness when mass murder & starvation have been the reality. No point saying Islam, properly understood, says there's no compulsion in religion when apostasy carries the death penalty in 13 countries.
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Similarly, there is no point saying that intersectionality, properly understood, is just a hermeneutic for understanding how people can be marginalised on many levels when in reality it leads to stereotyping, discrimination, tribalism, science-denial & violent censoriousness,
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Is that Shohreh Aghdashloo? I love her.
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It is - playing the role of Chrisjen Avasarala, a woman exactly two heartbeats from ruling the planet Earth in the SyFy series "The Expanse".pic.twitter.com/JipyGTnLPB
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I need to start watching that show.
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I'll be honest; a good portion of its appeal is the stunning wardrobe they have for her. Another portion is hearing her drop f-bombs like she's an Aussie.pic.twitter.com/FamPxLKZKJ
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Be still my gay heart.
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Agree 100%. I realize u may classify my Christianity similarly, but so be it, I still agree with your implication (my take) that doctrines & ideas can in themselves be deadly.
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Looking for goodness in Marxism is like looking for a sandwich in a sewer; you’ll find one but it will still kill you.
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If only the leeches had been properly applied, and the correct number used in the appropriate locations, bleeding would have worked.
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I hate to be this guy but: Acktchyually, now they use leaches properly (to improve blood circulation to reattached limbs and fingers) they work really well.pic.twitter.com/wBbvikL0lc
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Grr.... ... .. . Interesting. I did not know that.
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They also use blow fly maggots, in festering woods that wont heal, to do debridement of necrotic tissue. Ain't modern medicine wonderful. Imagine lying there with the little wrigglers in your open festering wound eating your dead flesh. LOL
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Are you in the medical field, or do you just read a lot.
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I just read a lot and stuff like that sticks in my mind.
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All of these ideologies deny people's individuality and reduce them to their group status, just like Nazism.
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