@benshapiro described the Woke as “race essentialists.”
He’s not wrong, exactly, but in a way, he is. Enough to clarify.
Race essentialism is the THESIS, race non-essentialism is the ANTITHESIS, and what the Woke hold is the SYNTHESIS. They both are and are not essentialists.
He’s not wrong, exactly, but in a way, he is. Enough to clarify.
Race essentialism is the THESIS, race non-essentialism is the ANTITHESIS, and what the Woke hold is the SYNTHESIS. They both are and are not essentialists.
@benshapiro The way the Woke ARE race essentialists is that the treat race is as indelible characteristic of a person that marks and defines them, that cannot ever be escaped (consider how the Woke view transracialism).
The Woke aren’t race essentialists by not appealing to essence.
The Woke aren’t race essentialists by not appealing to essence.
@benshapiro So the Woke can claim *technically* not to be essentialists, because essence isn’t what does the work for them, the same work that essence would do, but rather IDENTITY does the work.
@benshapiro But FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES the Woke are race essentialists. They just let Identity to the load bearing rather than Essence, but in their weird metaphysics, Identity can do that (it really can’t)—but the EFFECT is that they are in practice race essentialists.
@benshapiro This should work to easily SHOW the point, if TELLING it was too confusing. 
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