Well, I push back against that logic, because a conversation environment where each person gets to pick and choose whom they accept as belonging to their favorite group would descend into weasely meaninglessness soon. Criticism of concepts with group identities attached would become impossible.
Well, I push back against that logic, because a conversation environment where each person gets to pick and choose whom they accept as belonging to their favorite group would descend into weasely meaninglessness soon. Criticism of concepts with group identities attached would become impossible.
Do you mean that whoever assigns themselves an identity which has the same name as one you have either been assigned or choose to assign yourself automatically has to be accepted by you as having that very same identity you have?
This comment thread started with Kingsnorth bashing all of leftism (and quite explicitly, all of it), based on the bad examples that Rhyd mentioned in his article. Under that framing, I have to insist on Christians not weaseling out of bad examples of Christianity either.
Now, from you (but not from Kingsnorth) I could accept that you don't consider rightwing Neocons actual Christians. Then I would reply that woke cancellers aren't actual leftists either. That would be fair as well.
Well, I push back against that logic, because a conversation environment where each person gets to pick and choose whom they accept as belonging to their favorite group would descend into weasely meaninglessness soon. Criticism of concepts with group identities attached would become impossible.
Do you mean that whoever assigns themselves an identity which has the same name as one you have either been assigned or choose to assign yourself automatically has to be accepted by you as having that very same identity you have?
This comment thread started with Kingsnorth bashing all of leftism (and quite explicitly, all of it), based on the bad examples that Rhyd mentioned in his article. Under that framing, I have to insist on Christians not weaseling out of bad examples of Christianity either.
Now, from you (but not from Kingsnorth) I could accept that you don't consider rightwing Neocons actual Christians. Then I would reply that woke cancellers aren't actual leftists either. That would be fair as well.