Most of your favorite leftist intellectuals of a certain age harbor some pretty wack opinions when it comes to queer theory. Chomsky, Finkelstein; whoever - you ask certain questions and you'll get some pretty reactionary takes.
This is nearly always the case, folks don't keep up with the times.
This is nearly always the case, folks don't keep up with the times.
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Norman Finkelstein thinks that gender-neutral pronouns are a "Trojan horse" to impose an ideology he doesn't believe is "factually correct".
"I'm not going to call you 'they'. I'm not going to do that. Because you are not a 'they'."
"I'm not going to call you 'they'. I'm not going to do that. Because you are not a 'they'."
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As an aside, you must have “forgotten” what intolerance and persecution looks like considering your family’s demise at the hands of Nazis.
Individuation is something ...
Its best to assume some new kind of people will emerge and to try and respect their identity, and not that bigotry ended with your era.
Not *wrong* but... wrong.
Dershowitz got him fired from a tenure track job for factually criticizing Israel. THAT was real repression
An undergrad putting preferred pronouns on an email ain't repression
We work together, towards common goals until we fall out of alignment.
The anger I have at Chomskyite linguists is immense
I think a lot of it comes from allowing a certain level of progressiveness to become rigid as we age.
It's science
And sometimes new language starts an uncomfortable journey of self discovery, so that’s a place for more compassion and patience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0PfzWbxuIQ