Which only serves to highlight the mansplaining (and the wider dissatisfaction with Moffat on this point): the very fabric of the show doesn't allow women to have a voice or understanding of their own. All knowledge is turned over to the mighty Sherlock and the storyteller Waston.

Decentralised identity politics is actually a response to failure to get particular types of social change through "Great Society" justice. Politics split into an identity based system because the concern of "Great Society" wasn't working against some elements of oppressive culture.

Well, that notion of "real" and "fake" Islam is exactly what I have a problem with Islamism. It supposedly draws a discussion between the evil (Islamism, which is clearly not and has nothing to do with Islam) and the good (Islam).

Social justice is, in sense, about bullying though. Or at least it shares features with it in many instances. The "just cause" is the foundation of social justice. People are acting to put an end to an unjust state, by engages in a variety of actions, most of which involve shaming and ostracising people for how they…

I think it goes deeper than that. Identity politics has got to the point where its clash with classical liberalism is starting to enter the mainstream. Our culture's focus the individual has precipitated growth philosophy which looks at how individual are cited against and valued, rather than merely assuming an…

I don't buy this reading. The issues involved with "outrage culture" sort of have a limited relationship to what's happen in politics. They are largely about issues, about how different people are understood, about how people are valued, which lack much presence in the political debate. The so called "angry …

I thought it was an attack on redundant words rather than obscurity. "Vapid," "talentless" and "shallow" have such a similar meaning that, at least to me, the accusation is against someone lazily reading of a thesaurus to pad their writing with unnecessary synonyms.

I'd say that's just doubling down on the error. It is seemingly in the very same business of saying "That's not Islam"("hey, they are just Islamist, not of Islam" ) when talking about the atrocities linked to a doctrine and ideology of Islam, as if it were impossible to discuss this connection in terms of Islam.

Your example there is actually normative. When we excuse someone for it "being are different time," we are saying that, because of the time the existed, the moment and its environment, that it was okay at the time when the action was taken.

Depends which sort of structural oppression you are talking about I think. Microaggressions and safe spaces are about having respect for how your thoughts and actions relate to others. For certain types of structural racism, I think the trend could have a substantial impact. The idea of taking into account how your…

A "little agency?" That's not good enough. In the context of rape, agency is the most vital aspect to understand. If one is dealing with rape in a story, the presence of people and the reaction of rape to their agency should be the first (and one might even say only, as the significance of the act in the sortie is…

For exactly the reason you identified in your earlier post: the tone that it is imparting the knowledge about just how commonly rape occurs in the world and so just how horrible it would be to a woman in this world. It's rape as spectacle, as cautionary shock, as horror. In this approach it doesn't treat rape victims…

I don't know… implying the people involved would consider "just the tip" as having removed rape and resolved issues the show had in depicting it feels sort of truthful.

But that is, more or less, exactly the problem with how it handles rape. It treats it as inevitable. If you are are women in the world, the impression is that you will be raped for it is merely a function of the "natural order."

It's about power. "PC culture" isn't any more or less vulnerable to corporate manipulation than any other aspect of our culture (which is to say, everything and the corporate machine will do whatever they can to make the most money they can). It is, however, like corporations and gentrification, an expression of…

I think that's the problem more or less. In the end hypocrisy has nothing to do whether someone is making the right argument or telling the truth.

Haidt's analysis is too reductive. Liberals do value authority, loyalty and even sanctity. The set which these apply to is just different. Haidt's error is not to look beyond merely economics the popular notion of a Left/Right divide and classical liberalism.

Well… in plenty cases that's exactly what's happening. The opposition of safe spaces frequently amounts to the denial anything ought to be done about people promoting bigotry. Sometimes is is exactly that: a form of advocacy for bigoted speech. (there are, of course, instances where people misread something as…

The real problem is "safe spaces" aren't just about making some people feel good and warm. They are about providing a space absent bigotry. What is really act stake is not someone's feelings, but rather how people think and act towards each other. Opponents of safe spaces and "PC" aren't trying to tell an…

Sandman has a certain distance pretty much throughout, almost like looking back events which have already happened, rather than being immediately involved with them.