Id, I Support Your Case, John Staart Mills

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i support your case. A methodological individualism is the basis of morality, i think. All mankind should still be protected to have their thoughts and behaviour as long as it doesn't harm other people. I don't think you know that there's always people who are trying to make society see women in a certain way in order for it to be better for women. To navigate our way through these arguments we just have to kind of navigate our way through them. It didn't suit her as a woman when she felt uncomfortable by doing something at 19 60 years old. And then she tells me: 'This is erid? Are you frigid? You don't think things are changing now?'

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?

In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.