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The humility in my position is that I put myself on even ground with everyone else. When someone talks about silencing 'some ideas' I assume none of t...

Yes, I still have major concerns. Positive discrimination, on the basis of race, is racist. If we want to help people out of a hole, we should help th...

OK, so have another try at defining it. It's not so easy. There's no consensus about this. You want to deplatform racists and my concern is that we're...

We've never trusted politicians with the censorship of speech and I think for good reason. Affirmative action always entails treating people different...

Oh, good, you mean politicians. That's reassuring because I can't imagine them silencing oppositional political views by disingenuously painting them ...

The reverse psychology line of argument is, to me, a minor part of the overall set of objections. Who exactly is this rational 'we' that get to de-pla...

This is a good place to start. Is that the definition we're using?

Because society at large is obsessed with it right now and is pushing a narrative laced with misplaced guilt and overcompensation. Cognitive dissonanc...

Jordan Peterson's competitive advantage is that he's primarily concerned with truth. He doesn't have to do mental gymnastics in service of ideology li...

The statistics get misused grossly. Their utility is in identifying areas where there might be a problem. Then, the next step should be to investigate...

Woosh.

Whatever the percentage, surely it's due to systematized social constructions and not that men are inherently more criminal than women, right? My poin...

Gender pay gap is both real and exaggerated for political use. It's a complex phenomenon that surely includes some degree of actual discrimination. Di...

I don’t think that’s a charitable read of what folks have said. I haven’t come away with the same impression. I try to be careful not to misdiagnose g...

No, you've got me wrong. Everyone seems to understand the phenomena I wanted to discuss pretty well. Sorry if you don't like the discussion. It's gone...

I've had the sneaking suspicion that, to some extent, you and Un both have the 2nd type in mind while it's really the 1st type (ability to express ide...

I think this exchange is a good example to use as a segue into a more nuanced point. I see an important distinction to be drawn between 1) expressing ...

Unless your Benevolent Administrator doesn't subscribe to your utilitarianism. Then it's an altogether different analysis they're making, isn't it? Ma...

Your question is why I think it's unfounded confidence to believe you understand, and can accurately assess the public value of, someone's beliefs bef...

There simply is not universal agreement about who the racists are. You seem to have an unfounded confidence in understanding other people's positions ...

All discussions don't need to take place, but the potential for them to take place is foundational. The lack of a discussion is also more meaningful i...

I want to say I'm fine with this and that I'm content to draw the line at legislation. Corruption ensures there are still serious, related, problems b...

It's not possible to allow all reasonable claims while preventing all unreasonable claims. So, we have to be able to deal with unreasonable claims. Wh...

I'll just say it's very important to me that you're free to articulate that. You keep the racists out of teaching positions by exercising free speech,...

I'd like to explore this claim if others are willing: Those making the case to restrict free speech rely on free speech to make the case. Agree or dis...

I'm having a tip-of-the-tongue reaction to your line of argument here. My sense is that the ability to perform the duties you're outlining, to balance...

Importantly, you don't just think that, it's an actual legal right.

I'm deliberately simplistic about rights because, outside of the legal domain, it's a very imprecise and flimsy concept that generates endless semanti...

We're on the same page. When a movement insists that a right exists, but does not exist, my reading between the lines is that they'd like it to be leg...

The honor culture parallel had never occurred to me and I find it very interesting.

Totally agree with your version of the right to not be offended. There's a very important difference between 'we have the right not to be offended' an...

Sure, that's just fine. As long as you're the one who gets to define your own position. Telling me to eff off would be a perfectly appropriate, non-Or...

Just watched this, what a great example. Thanks.

Ah, now I think we're in the transgender context. Another particular movement with good examples of the phenomenon I mean to discuss. Wanting to know ...

I was actually thinking you might be one to articulate a charitable case for the idea, thanks for responding. I notice a startlingly heavy emphasis on...

Sounds like the MeToo context, which is one such context where this crops up. Just to be clear that's not the particular movement I'm referring to, al...

I don't care to name it - it is exactly whatever it is. If you don't agree there is such a movement, then duly noted.

So, the case being made is that (some) trans people need me to validate their particular conception of gender identity. Depriving them of this validat...

Semantics are important here. It's clear to me that this movement deliberately engages in compound verbal rounding error to appropriate shock from oth...

No, it's not violence. This revising of words is a dastardly tactic and you shouldn't put up with it. How many laws get revised along with it if we ac...

At a certain level of analysis, group identity, in and of itself, seems to be a deeply confused and inextricably racist/sexist or otherwise superficia...

This is an embarrassing discussion for a philosophy forum. Pseudonym is the only one taking it seriously. I'm deeply disappointed by the tone and cont...

Could be that God shines his consciousness through all living things as experience filters so he can experience His world in an endless variety of way...

The notion of fairness is an eternal wellspring of cognitive dissonance. Starting with the genetic lottery at birth, nothing about life is actually fa...

You don't like opiates?

I enjoyed the OP and it resonated with a line of thinking I've been pursuing on my own. Try not to be too pretentious, all.

Life is complicated and you can view it through an endless variety of paradigms. This culture of victimhood and fashionable misandry is an overcorrect...

Gender is basically a template for fashion and behavior at a high level that correlates highly with biological sex. Not everybody fits the templates w...

Statements don't just exist on their own in some objective dimension. Someone has to say them. The 2nd statement says more about the speaker - specifi...

Interesting angle. I've been thinking about identity lately because I have the sneaking suspicion it's a source of much confusion and conflict. It's g...