Is Bignall really saying that our leading scholars are just fringe dwellers 2 white knowing? Defending white virtue while speaking 4 the native was so Becky'esque
Black Issues in Philosophy: Response to "Australian Continental Philosophy" https://blog.apaonline.org/2018/01/09/black-issues-in-philosophy-response-to-australian-continental-philosophy/ … via @apa_blog
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politically or intellectually if you frame my existence as an equity and diversity project, then we have a problem. Diversity is not decolonizing.
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Absolutely right. Your thread shows that's here that for Bignall equity & diversity is colonial armour. Bignall argues that: 1/ they already "do" E&D because they have a panel (nope) & this exonerates racism (nope); 2/ inclusion of Black scholars would be antithesis of E&D (???)
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"It also would put such speakers in the unenviable and unfair position of having to defend themselves against a large audience of such experts." So Bignall accepts the org is about White supremacy, b/c Black critiques are not welcome, & they'd face a hostile audience.
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I understood that to mean in her hypothetical scenario of inviting a First Nations keynote who wasn't from within continental philosophy. So a disciplinary hostility
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Replying to @a_kanjere @OtherSociology and
But as someone pointed out to me, continental philosophy is supposed to be a discipline characterised by its willingness to interrogate its premises. So
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True. And it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Again, all those authors don't exclusively cite continental philosophers any more than sociologists exclusively cite sociologists & biologists citing biologists, & so on. Her argument is flawed at best, but really just racist at its core.
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