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I was quite pleased with this as a brief summary what I take to be the most counterproductive arguments made on the political left. However, it might be worth elaborating on them a bit, so a new thread is needed.
What these arguments have in common is that they're quick and easy discursive tactics which foreclose much better discursive strategies. They are most often used unthinkingly, but there are theoretical positions that transform such *local* tactics into *global* strategies.
Let's begin with the tactic of *naturalisation*. I've explained the problems I have with normative naturalism as a general position elsewhere (deontologistics.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/tfe…), but it's worth analysing the trap involved in even implying some form of it by accident on the local scale.
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 1/ May I, as a woman who was forced by the highly abusive psychiatrists of the UK NHS in the 1940/50/60s (their "treatment", if one tried to transition, was being locked in asylums & tortured with electro-convulsive shocks to wipe the mind), to "ride it out" until 21, add that…
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 2/…the trauma, & many body changes are irrecoverable or need costly & very painful treatment to ease. The pain & regret from being denied help available elsewhere, from the totally lost childhood & teens, the tensions & stress in the family, which can easily destroy the…
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 3/… family, destroy others lives too, perhaps prevent siblings ever being conceived, the distraction from, even destruction of educational opportunities, & the restricted life choices & economic deprivation, even dangers that follow from that, are all unnecessary, & abuse too.
