Sartre did a deep dive into the concept of "bad faith" ("mauvaise foi"), it's a basic concept in existential philosophy -- that one of the main ways people fuck themselves and each other is *denying they're doing something on purpose that they obviously are* https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1336742725987819520 …
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And it's incredibly dangerous or, if nothing else, wasteful of one's time and energy to actually debate their stated reasons for that hatred It's not a rational response to empirical facts, it's a decision they made The "roots of antisemitism" are the roots of that decision
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Debunking is a waste of time In fact bothering to debunk the beliefs of a bigot on factual grounds is *failing* to debunk the most central and fundamental of their false claims, it's completely falling for that claim The claim that they even give a shit
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The reason not to debate with TERFs about biology is that by so doing you are reinforcing the most pernicious myth underlying TERF ideology, which is that they give a shit about biology
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