Wishing a truly happy birthday to @clairlemon. I keep seeing kind of snarky or nasty swipes at @QuilletteM for being supposedly a pseudo-respectable cover for regressive ideas & for people in power who don't deserve it to justify their status & the status quo generally [thread]
Ok have given this a (light) read - I agree the stuff about rah-rah scientific rationality is rather unsophisticated & one-dimensional & this idea that one can argue from "view from nowhere" is not credible. I learned some things too, e.g. re: maths of opposition 2 ID politics
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That math doesn't tell you the world starts in the position of perfect initial distribution. Also fails to acknowledge that the thesis is that identities are often discovered facts, not assignations. This is something that keeps being missed, article after article.
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I agree with your point about the maths, and definitely agree re: identities being discovered (and also often created & shaped), something I've been thinking about a lot lately
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