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People have been debating that since the sixties —- predating “identity politics” by several decades.
by thebooktocome 5y ago
People have been debating that since the sixties —- predating “identity politics” by several decades.
- pcmoney 5y ago
- thebooktocome 5y agoThat may be your opinion, but C. S. Lewis was not participating in some discourse on identity politics, not by any stretch of the imagination. He wouldn’t have understood the term. Your citation merely reinforces my point that queer readings of LOTR predate the current generation by several decades. It’s a historical fact.
- pcmoney 5y agoMaybe not the term but the practice: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great. The demon inherent in every party is at all times ready enough to disguise himself as the Holy Ghost,”
- watwut 5y agoYes, gender and race were immensly important to success and literally anything in the 60s. That decade started shortly after bus boycot and ended around the time MLK was killed. Yale, Princeton and Cornell did not allowed women at all. The identity ruled the lifes of people.
- wolverine876 5y ago> flagrantly infantile Why do you feel the need to utterly dismiss other points of view, straining to leave no avenue for intellectual curiosity or discussion?
- pcmoney 5y agoBecause it is. No claims are made now so nothing is provable/refutable. It is faux intellectualism, professional pedantry. We just debate narratives. It devolves into playground tribalism with moral relativism, theres not much to be curious about there.