Anomaly
@wolfy.club
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🏳️⚧ She/her Transfem savant. Half progressive politics, half shitposting. Mostly discord these days, send me a message @ enchantress.exe
🏳️⚧ She/her Transfem savant. Half progressive politics, half shitposting. Mostly discord these days, send me a message @ enchantress.exe
![Kennedy answered, “We are doing those kind of studies now. At [the National Institutes of Health], we’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor] drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. You know, many of them have black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. So we need, we can’t exclude those as a culprit.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6bqjsilgyldbgqfm4am33w6/bafkreifvp3duvntcijthme5nuhcv3cwp5qcc7wdc7dsz2gp6k4ara2thym)
![book passage;
won over by this infliction of cruelty? Well, according to one veteran lf toe Obama White House: "There was a feeling that [Obama] needed to show the American public that you believed in enforcement, and [that we weren't pushing for] open borders. But in hindsight I was like, what did we get for that? We deported more people than ever before. All these families separated, and Republicans didn't give him once ounce of credit. There may as well have been open borders for five years." OK, so zero. It won zero votes. Republicans accused Democrats of being open-border lovers anyway, and Democratic voters who cared about immigration felt betrayed, like they were sold out in an attempt to satisfy the right. Great.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6bqjsilgyldbgqfm4am33w6/bafkreib6mm2ep7yjqhicwdctv4x3kdue7heuyocgzijlxegqhriqmlgphe)
![Q. In Spain, when people talk about identity politics, such as feminism or the LGTBQ+ movement, they are sometimes criticized as collectivist. In your book, they seem to have their roots in classical liberalism, in the affirmation of individual rights.
A. Identity politics arise because certain groups are discriminated against or marginalized. And it’s perfectly legitimate to use identity as a means of social mobilization to push back against marginalization. I think that identity politics becomes problematic in a liberal society when one’s fixed identity becomes the most essential thing that one knows about somebody, when you’re making judgments about people simply on the basis of their membership in a group and not what they’ve accomplished as individuals. There’s an acceptable liberal version of identity politics, but I think it can be very problematic.
Q. These groups are sometimes accused of fostering a “cancel culture.” Does such a culture exist?
A. In certain parts of the United States and other countries you have a very intolerant form of progressive politics that really does not want alternative views to be expressed. And so, yes, people are cancelled and fired from [their] jobs or shouted down. And that’s particularly problematic when it happens in universities, because universities are dedicated to free expression and the free exploration of ideas. [This is] a dangerous trend that’s been promoted by a certain version of identity politics.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6bqjsilgyldbgqfm4am33w6/bafkreifw7hwcrnfxkrtog2t6i2d4s5dy2zhp5n5lhpcipn5sw6nsdnm6ea)
