Does anyone actually believe in a "blank slate" idea of human nature? Not only does that not seem "leftist" to me. It doesn't seem real.
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Could you name some "leftist" thinkers anyone has heard of that believe that? I'm curious.
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Judith Butler...
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Good point. If you remove one thinker's radical gender theories, hardly anything remains of the political left, eh? ;-)
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A few comments: 1) It's a strawman to say "there's more to political left" because
@QuilletteM isn't trying to "destroy" political left -
..Only influence of people like Judith Butler (who's enormously influential - one could say entire gender theory curriculum is based on her)
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2) You are correct, there's more to political left - e.g. there is classical Marxian theory of class conflict which had been shoved aside...
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Peter thiel is her inspiration - the guy who rigged a court case to shut down free speech?
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Wow, it's her words and have you seen this?https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/nick-denton-peter-thiel-plot-to-murder-gawker …
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1. Claire was a member & admin of the Darwinian Gender Studies forum for many years. It's no a matter of luck that she knows so many...
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2. Darwinian researchers, she met most of them at DGS and the forum a significant part of her journey. She left on bad terms so I understand
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3. why she has erased it from her history but it remains a missing, but crucial, link in the chain. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2454842234/# …
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Yeah, how "stimulating & original" to whine about "political correctness" & refer to P. Thiel as if he's some nuanced thinker.
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To dethrone Thiel in this context, you must first dethrone his analogy of Vatican and academia, which was brilliant.
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No, you don't have to dethrone laughable straw man claims like asserting that professors are a "priestly class" that "does little work".
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As an English instructor, you ought to understand things like metaphor and allegory.
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Indeed! Very reason I critiqued the analogy as untenable under even cursory scrutiny. It's Atlas Shrugged, libertarian masturbatory fantasy.
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No. The analogy is much deeper than your surface perception of it suggests. Try harder.
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Yeah, nice condescension, know-it-all. What the fuck would I know, I just I do this analysis for a living.
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Yes, you are a living example of Thiel's argument being absolutely correct.
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