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Old 04-04-2020, 03:19 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Huinesoron View Post
One way we do that is by deliberately highlighting other perspectives, other people who are neglected by the historic view of 'normal' - and when, for example, a white, male, Anglo-Saxon academic gets in a huff because his students aren't treating white-male-Anglo-Saxonism as the standard baseline for opinions that his culture has taught him it Should Be, it's a step - only a small one, but a step - in the wrong direction.
I quite agree. And I similarly don't think we can assume that the author of the original article has some kind of insidious political motive just because the argument strikes as controversial, deliberately or otherwise. But I also think for me to get into that any further would be contrary to this forum's very sensible no-politics rule.
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