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The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner. That's, like, the entire point of this story. Yo
by yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner. That's, like, the entire point of this story. Your own definition of the word in this context is arguably as bullshit as the meme which offends you. Blasphemy toward your own new age received wisdom is not "ignorance".
- psyc 5y agoMaking the distinction sheds more light than equivocating.
- mcphage 5y ago> The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner. It was, because that's all the information they had at the time—that the author of the book represented themselves via a picture of a woman. Most people who do that, are women. And then they got new information: in fact, the book was written by three men, and the woman does not exist. So they updated their priors. That's what people do when encountering someone (or someones) being misleading. It's not a complicated situation at all—we don't need to bring transgenderism into this to understand it. You tell me it's raining, and I'll grab an umbrella. I go outside, find out the skies are clear, and I'll put the umbrella away. Maybe it was raining previously, and it stopped. Maybe you lied. I don't entertain the possibility that it is raining for you but not for me.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y ago> I don't entertain the possibility that it is raining for you but not for me. Interesting point, although it seems at odds with the ideology you are legitimising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism