The Left-Identitarian View of Political Action

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There's a kind of left-identitarian view which roughly speaking says if we are from different identity groups then you're never going to be able to fully understand me and my experience especially if I'm more impressed with his advantage than you in some kind. "I think that is wrong just epistemology," he said. We can come to understand certainly why the experiences are unjust by listening with an open mind to what they tell us about the way that the world looks to them"

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Susan Neiman discuss how liberals can uphold their universal values while maintaining a politics of empathy and compassion; how the left’s tendency to discount the progress of the past inhibits progress for the future; and whether Germany can serve as a model for how America, and other nations, should deal with the dark aspects of their own history.

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