Yes, we all know that 'far-right' can be used wrongly - not to describe extremist fringes. I'd still like to talk about the most extreme rightwing views tho & am currently saying that they are giving me less to get my teeth into than extreme leftwing views.
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Really? - Can you give me one or two examples? I find both extremes very easy to dismantle with science... - both try to ignore science. I do admit that right wing just dismisses science and left wing try to circumvent it with word games, but in the end, denial is denial...
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Huh? We seem to be at cross-purposes here. Yes, they both deny science. My examples will be of theories which do that which I can get my teeth into. I think you think I am arguing something I am not.
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I am currently studying a great body of scholarship around feminist epistemology which includes distinct concepts of epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, epistemic exploitation, epistemic violence, privilege-preserving epistemic pushback, reason/emotion divide, situatedness
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It's all a big fascinating complicated mess all building on itself which I can dig right into and take apart and uncover the sources of and refine down the core assumptions and show why they don't work. And I can show how this manifests in society and ideas of 'stay in your lane'
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I am not getting any of this from the far-right. There's no scholarship being produced now that I can find and in conversation, I usually just hear assertions about racial superiority and conspiracy theories and the death of western civilisation which I can't probe too far into.
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That's true, but that's because the academic sector is run by the far-left currently. but even there, stuff like critical race theory is actually a lot of times more right extreme then you would believe. As for feminist epistemology, I find it so weak that common sense is enough.
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Yes. It doesn't matter why there is more of it. And I;m certainly not claiming it;s less extreme or that it has worth! I am saying that it is why I am more interested in studying it in depth than anything happening on the right. I have been asked to justify this.
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I still feel we are at cross-purposes. Do you get that my point is the reason I criticise left-wing ideology much more than right-wing ideology is because there is a load of scholarship and complicated and ever-evolving ideology on the left to hold my interest?
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yes - and I thought we agreed on that already :) My point was simply: Even IF it would be because of tribalism, it wouldn't make a difference because whatever is interesting for you, you should persue!
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I still thought we were at cross-purposes but I see we are not now.
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