Surely the point of the piece is that anti-gender backlash is a meeting place for disparate political forces. That seems to me obviously true if one reads the discourse.
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They assemble and launch incendiary claims in order to defeat what they see as “gender ideology” or “gender studies” by any rhetorical means necessary. I mean, usually "gender ideology" refers to the idea that we all have an innate gender identity that determines whether we are
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male or female or other. A lot of people have critiqued this, including plenty on the left. "Gender studies" is an entire big, diverse field of study. Even just lumping those two together suggests Butler is being pretty sloppy.
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So whether California state law (to take a recent example) should follow "gender ideology" in determining who is seen as what is a pretty different issue from right-wing attempts to attack Polish or Hungarian progressive universities in typical right-wing fashion
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The people leading the fights often see these things as connected. Polish & Hungarian ideologues (& in fact Vatican) often name USA laws & theorists (esp. Butler). Or for that matter, Dreher in recent column linking the fights. And of course Tucker Carlson
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So what exactly is Butler saying about gender-critical feminists? Does Butler think they are genuinely allied with Orban, for example?
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I read the last paragraph as a warning rather than an accusation
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