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The Woke Rejection of the Reasonable

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The Rise of the Reasonable Person

If you get rid of a reasonable person standard, there's no basis for judging somebody's behavior. You have absolutely no universal standard that you can appeal to in situations where there's any ambiguity whatsoever and then these woke power dynamics become the only adjudicator. "When you impose whiteness you're just reproducing the very power dynamics you refuse to understand by saying that's a reasonable position," he says.

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