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abaya:
i understand the response--tfp is far more frustrating than even a low-level undergraduate class on this kind of question. in a class, i'll generally plow straight through student reticence. i figure that i warn them up front, tell them what's coming, and encourage them to drop the class. if they dont drop, then everything is fair game. most of the interest in teaching is putting students in an uncomfortable position, undermine their sense of certainty about the world, jamming them into corners such that they have to think their way out.
but i try to give them the tools required to do the thinking, if they dont already have them. its a philosophical exercise, preliminary to any political narratives.
here, you're right: there are folk who prefer the illusions that come along with categories like race. but that doesnt mean these illusions are worth anything. and destroying them can be fun.
gotta go for the moment.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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