One might also do, say, a thought experiment with alien civilisations untouched by whites’ hands and unaware about the oppression system.
Even though their supposed oppressor classes are unlikely to look like white males, that doesn’t guarantee the absence of platonic toxic whiteness & masculinity.
What #1,#2,#4 have in common is that it is harder to check experimentally unless you are immersed with the area and the potential difficulty of publishing your results threatening to invalidate the dominant narrative.
The other part is that partisans of the narrative overfocus on the other side’s bad arguments because of most people not being able to check the arguments, and to be frank the entire area is a mess that I’m not willing to go down, and I instead focus on less-charged topics.
Like, all 4 of the examples are great demonstrations of why you need to be able to steelman your opponent, and one of the central problems in politics is people are trapped in a loop of destroying bad arguments instead of focusing on good arguments.
Even though their supposed oppressor classes are unlikely to look like white males, that doesn’t guarantee the absence of platonic toxic whiteness & masculinity.
Indeed.
As it happens, I had a bit of a back-and-forth with the author in the comments.
The other part is that partisans of the narrative overfocus on the other side’s bad arguments because of most people not being able to check the arguments, and to be frank the entire area is a mess that I’m not willing to go down, and I instead focus on less-charged topics.
Like, all 4 of the examples are great demonstrations of why you need to be able to steelman your opponent, and one of the central problems in politics is people are trapped in a loop of destroying bad arguments instead of focusing on good arguments.