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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
This explanation feels a lot more colored by personal opinion than the rational approach taken above.
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Well, he's really just talking about identity politics and dealing with ideas on their merits, which is certainly a fair example to use - it should be a quintessential liberal principle (the "tyranny of the majority" notion) that all perspectives, including the minority perspective, should contribute to a broad potpourri of world views, including a whole bunch of them that are ultimately determined to be wrong
on their merits. No one's views should be dismissed or given an exalted status based on their position in society, their sex, their race or their sexual orientation - the rejection of the notion that women or blacks can't be trusted with the vote because their views are inherently of lesser worth, for example.
The regressive left approach is to invert the matter completely and say, to use an extreme example that I've seen in various contexts, "if you're a man, shut up and listen to women on women's issues, you have nothing worthwhile to add to the conversation".
Anyway last post on the subject as I'm likely to get accused of threadjacking again.