Instead of motte-and-bailey, isn't that a particular position taken to an extreme, so more like people burning the motte & never leaving the bailey? Anyway, agreed that this is so annoying. basically Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"
If you ever doubt the power of the motte-and-bailey technique, take a look at the convo around cultural appropriation & try to work out how we went from "definitely don't do blackface" to cyberbullying celebrities who wear chopsticks in their hair https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey …
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I think motte-and-bailey was the means of getting us here, but yeah — accusations of racism have been so effective at burning people that at this point there's rarely much need to retreat to the motte.
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Even worse than that on the object-level: the original arguments on cultural appropriation were concerned about the cultural losses from Bollywood selling India back the funhouse mirror version of its own culture, not Americans in Bindis.
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Basically a complete reversal from "we must not enforce a centrally approved culture" to "I am in charge of centrally approving culture"
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