Tom Morris: Explaining philosophy for social justice warriors and/or trolls

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Meet blackwomanvalues.

blackwomanvalues is a black woman. You can tell, right?

blackwomanvalues is apparently transethnic, which is Internet-speak for “I can be whatever the fuck I want, and if you don’t agree, you are just privileged”. Think transgender, except on racial and ethnic lines….

Okay, so, this is a bit more confrontational in tone then I’d word it (largely because Tom comes at it from a different point of view than I do), but this is what I mean when I say that instead of arguing against an identity, one should argue against the individual fallacies or perpetuations of bigotry. Because those are what matter, and that’s what turns the statement from “I am attacking something in general via lampooning one example” to “I am pointing out errors with something specific” - specific objections. Yay Tom for not just taking the easy route of “isn’t this whole concept ridiculous?”.