Other academics with regressive attitudes towards entrenched gender roles and gender norms have tried to appeal to Peterson’s fanbase by engaging in similar histrionics, usually relying on propagandistic talking-points about ‘academic freedom’ to misgender others.
-
Show this thread
-
And many popular individuals on the far-right outside academia also employ the same tactics of refusing to consider the testimony of others as containing any merit—thus the conservative attempt at ‘humour’: ‘well then *I* identify as an attack helicopter’.
4 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @nathanoseroff
"I identify as an attack helicopter" is a way to counterargue the view that self-identity is how we should assign labels. It's a reductio for a certain theory of gender. I think we should use self ID, but you characterization of why they say that is wrong.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @nathanoseroff
Even it's not formally a reductio. It's in the spirit of a reductio to say, "If we assume your theory is true, it implies all sorts of false things."
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @nathanoseroff
No a critique of a specific theory of gender. It's just saying that view proves too much.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @nathanoseroff
It's a critique of the view that you are whatever you identify as. Why are you making me spell this out?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @LevelOAnalysis
Because you're wrong. It's an attempt at 'humour' at the expense of trans people. It's not a reductio.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Yeah it is an unkind attempt at humor. What does that have to do with whether it is trying to show that certain views about the nature of identity entail absurdities and/or contradictions?
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.