Glenn Loury, I confess I didn’t listen to the entire podcast but I think I got the gist of it and agree. The goal is color blindless but, to get there from here, we may have to exploit color consciousness.
I can’t speak directly to this because I’m not black. But I am female, which is another thing but poses some of the same questions.
I’m about to do a session for my intro phil course, end of semester fun, on ‘hot topics’—after having slogged through Descartes and Berkeley, Locke, Quine, Parfit, and David Lewis, I decided to do ‘trans’ as one of the hot topics. Reading through the literature on gender ‘identity’ I’d argue for identity nihilism, as regards both race and gender: there are biological and historical facts of physiology and ancestry, and there are the social roles, expectations, obligations, and constraints, but ‘identity’ beyond that, is a fiction. And a pernicious fiction.
So, I’m going to fly this at Thursday’s class, and I’m contemplating the possibility of working it up for a paper. Though I doubt that it would be worth my while because I don’t see any realistic possibility of it’s getting published. And I have other things to do—in my professional specialty area. Like doping out non-classical logics to get a plausible account of certain cases of indeterminacy. I’m irritated by this crap but I need to do work in my field and not get sidetracked.
Most irritating, much as I hate the stuff on ‘identity’—racial, ethnic, or gendered—and all the other ‘woke’ garbage, when I’ve joined the protest I find myself in a small minority amongst people on the right, whose views on a range of issues I cannot stomach. I have very specific priorities in virtue of which I am a committed to the left. Broadly and crudely: big government, and high taxes to fund social programs and income transfers, and affirmative action to ameliorate ongoing discrimination in employment and the allocation of other benefits. Without government intervention my prospects would have been, at best, secretarial. I’m an FDR/LBJ Democrat. In the current political scene I am orphaned.
Glenn Loury, I confess I didn’t listen to the entire podcast but I think I got the gist of it and agree. The goal is color blindless but, to get there from here, we may have to exploit color consciousness.
I can’t speak directly to this because I’m not black. But I am female, which is another thing but poses some of the same questions.
I’m about to do a session for my intro phil course, end of semester fun, on ‘hot topics’—after having slogged through Descartes and Berkeley, Locke, Quine, Parfit, and David Lewis, I decided to do ‘trans’ as one of the hot topics. Reading through the literature on gender ‘identity’ I’d argue for identity nihilism, as regards both race and gender: there are biological and historical facts of physiology and ancestry, and there are the social roles, expectations, obligations, and constraints, but ‘identity’ beyond that, is a fiction. And a pernicious fiction.
So, I’m going to fly this at Thursday’s class, and I’m contemplating the possibility of working it up for a paper. Though I doubt that it would be worth my while because I don’t see any realistic possibility of it’s getting published. And I have other things to do—in my professional specialty area. Like doping out non-classical logics to get a plausible account of certain cases of indeterminacy. I’m irritated by this crap but I need to do work in my field and not get sidetracked.
Most irritating, much as I hate the stuff on ‘identity’—racial, ethnic, or gendered—and all the other ‘woke’ garbage, when I’ve joined the protest I find myself in a small minority amongst people on the right, whose views on a range of issues I cannot stomach. I have very specific priorities in virtue of which I am a committed to the left. Broadly and crudely: big government, and high taxes to fund social programs and income transfers, and affirmative action to ameliorate ongoing discrimination in employment and the allocation of other benefits. Without government intervention my prospects would have been, at best, secretarial. I’m an FDR/LBJ Democrat. In the current political scene I am orphaned.