There's also a most political element of tesrihtso i think one sao es i agree with us that actually kno point. For i wonder when strategic essentialism stops being strategic and becomes essentialist full out. And this is an argument against segregating en at the age of eight or nine by anything, including, of course, class. We have identities as citizens we need to be able to mobilize those places in a way that transcends all time - but sometimes that doesn't always happen. So yes, i worry very much for this reason, there's a kind of cross cutting social capital, a cross-cutting identity which is absolutely crucial in life.
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and one of today's deepest thinkers about the nature of identity. His scholarly writing, journalism, and novels help us to envision a world in which our professed categories enrich rather than impoverish—or, in his terms, a world which reveres “universality plus difference.”
In this week’s conversation, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Yascha Mounk discuss neutrality as a liberal ideal, the limits of identity politics, and the merits of race-abolitionism.
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