Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Role of Self-Defense in Public Discourse
The media can frame an event like that and also how people have come to accept certain language for framing an event, he says. "We defend our national self against the other who does not belong to ourself or is not assimilable into the self," Trump will say. Some people have a self that is worth defending and others are not regarded as having a self that's worth defending,. He asks: How often do police get to use self-defense arguments when they kill unarmed people?
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