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Identitarian deference is an enemy of civilization
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Identitarian deference is an enemy of civilization

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Carl Beijer
Dec 05, 2015
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A long while back, Matt Bruenig wrote a pretty good thing about the philosophical failures of identitarian deference:

Roughly, identitarian deference is the idea that privileged individuals should defer to the opinions and views of oppressed individuals, especially on topics relevant to those individuals’ oppression…To practice ID, you already must have …

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