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Sarphan Uzunoğlu
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Why, then, does Ukraine support Israel? For ideological reasons (and also for winning the West’s favor), Ukraine presents its struggle as a defense of Europe and European civilization, and against the barbaric-totalitarian East. It ignores
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“Sure, there have always been ideologues on campuses, but the old ideologues were at least expected to argue the validity of their ideas. The new brand are ideologues of feelings, and feelings can’t be argued. Despite being a certified left-wing feminist, I just don’t believe that experience or identity credentialize you intellectually.”
― Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
― Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
“This is why Kant’s formula of Enlightenment is not “Don’t obey, think freely!” and is not “Don’t obey, think and rebel!” but: “Think freely, state your thoughts publicly, and obey!” The same holds for vaccine doubters: debate, publish your doubts, but obey regulations once the public authority imposes them.”
― Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
― Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
“Why, then, does Ukraine support Israel? For ideological reasons (and also for winning the West’s favor), Ukraine presents its struggle as a defense of Europe and European civilization, and against the barbaric-totalitarian East. It ignores the dark side of Europe, which is marked by modern slavery, colonialism, and Fascism, to name a few.”
― Mad World: War, Movies, Sex
― Mad World: War, Movies, Sex
“a social space is not just the space of what is permitted but also the space of what is repressed, excluded from public space, and simultaneously necessary for this public space to reproduce itself. This is what “acheronta movebo” (move the underground) as a practice of the critique of ideology means: not directly changing the explicit text of the Law, but, rather, intervening into its obscene virtual supplement.”
― Freedom: A Disease Without Cure
― Freedom: A Disease Without Cure
“Almost every day, a story comes out about somebody who has been fired, “canceled,” or subjected to a public shaming on social media, often for having said or done something interpreted as sexist, racist, or homophobic. Sometimes the accusations are warranted, and we can comfort ourselves that a bigot—whom we see as entirely unlike ourselves—is receiving the censure she “deserves” for her hateful views. However, increasingly often, the accusation is highly interpretive and its reasoning tortuous.”
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
― Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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