This is the cronyist language regulation equivalent of $10 epipens costing $600. news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/r
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Confused by your tweet. Comparing the university or the professor to those charging outrageous prices?
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Read the article and it almost made me ill. Like a vigorous defense of a professor referring to his black students by only the N word.
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I don't think that's even remotely an appropriate analogy, but not an argument I want to pick.
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Agreed it's not 1:1. Regardless, I wish the letter to the professor had been unflinching in its denunciation.
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just so you don't misunderstand my position, I think Petersen is in the right here and the activists have an ill-posed position
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back up a bit and consider: identity is illegible on lots of dimensions, not just race/gender; not all matter in all contexts
we all have limited brain capacity and priorities, all are mis-identified on dimensions that matter to them at times
when a label like the N-word is actively constructed to oppress, there's a case for a general shift in norms and language
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but for the rest... we all have to pick/wage our identity battles situation by situation so language can evolve more organically

