This sort of asinine, duplicitous, hyperbolic nonsense is (partly) why the American left is utterly lost: https://medium.com/danthropology/when-did-online-atheism-get-into-bed-with-the-neo-nazi-movement-d6e3cb49e3f1 …
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
A lot of problems with that piece. Totally over the top. Which is unfortunate as there is a lot of valid criticism scattered throughout too.
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Replying to @Humanisticus
Hmmmm. You're being too kind to it (and yes, I realize Michael Sherlock, if that's his name, is an arse!)
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
And Shermer, Rubin and so many others. All given Neo-Nazism a soft pass.
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Replying to @Humanisticus
If I think that identity politics tends to polarize & drive people into entrenched positions, does that make me a racist?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Don't think anyone called Shermer a racist. Just that he was wrong and blaming the victim.
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Replying to @Humanisticus
Oh people have called a racist - easy to find. But if his position is that identity politics is polarizing, and that's a worry - he's right.
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
All of them are identity politics. LGBT movement and so on. All polarising?
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and justified, you don't escape the problems of divisiveness, just because you need to be divisive.
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