tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post7567960081724869390..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: How Would You Like Me To Raise It?, Part IIDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-72295587247534199252011-12-27T21:57:11.478-08:002011-12-27T21:57:11.478-08:00Most progressives do not go beyond the question &q...<i>Most progressives do not go beyond the question "is a protected minority the focus" of a statement and delve into the substance of a statement or action independent of who is who.</i><br /><br />Why is this sentiment -- that a less-powerful group can be more victimized by a statement or action than a numerically/economically/politically dominant group would be -- intrinsically intolerant of opposing ideas?<br /><br />On the contrary, I think you'll find that within the left there are some pretty hot debates about it, and at various levels: self-victimization by minority groups (e.g. black people's using the "n-word"); the kyriachy arguments over whether "safe spaces" are a good idea when they leave out disempowered minorities; etc & ad nauseum. For an example of the kyriarchy argument, my college roommate (a women's studies/ anthropology major, if you want her lefty bona fides) wrote a thesis on the subject of the Michigan Women's Music Festival's exclusion of transgendered women.<br /><br />I know that this is all pretty invisible/ inaudible to folks who couldn't care less about the oppression of transfolk, but the fact that you don't know about opposing ideas within the left is poor evidence for the claim that they don't exist.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-79105592527741707592011-12-23T23:49:22.910-08:002011-12-23T23:49:22.910-08:00Since most of the progressives in this world have ...Since most of the progressives in this world have their chosen minorities, and in their eyes Jews are not chosen, don't hold your breath waiting for any real acceptance of anyone opposing anti-Semitism.<br /><br />Most progressives do not go beyond the question "is a protected minority the focus" of a statement and delve into the substance of a statement or action independent of who is who.<br /><br />I first ran across this reaction in my college years in the 1970's among the radical left and since then seen it expand to liberals. It is the essence of political correctness with its intolerance of opposing ideas.Cycle Cyrilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12652830857909607093noreply@blogger.com