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Identity Politics

Identity Politics

• Tiger Beatdown: Come one, come all! Feminist and Social Justice blogging as performance and bloodshed
• Sharon Smith: Marxism and identity politics
• M-L-M Mayhem!: 10 Theses on Identity Politics
• M-L-M Mayhem!: Because and Despite of Identity Politics

Intersectionality

• Basics:
  • SRSDiscussion: Intersectionality 101
  • revolutionary socialism in the 21st century: What is intersectionality?
• Criticism:
  • Unity and Struggle: I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory

Allies

• Shakesville: Fixed State vs Process Model of Ally Work
• Geek Feminism Wiki: Resources for allies
• Sincerely, Natalie Reed: “But I’m An Ally! I’m On Your Side!”

Oppression

Privilege

• Brown Betty: A primer on privilege: what it is and what it isn’t
• Sindelókë: Of Dogs and Lizards: A Parable of Privilege
• FerretBrain: Humbled and Amazed (a straight white cis male reader recognizes his privilege through a book review)
• John Scalzi: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
• SRSDiscussion: Privilege 101

Bigotry

• Taking Up Too Much Space: Combatting “Combatting Ignorance”:
  • Part 1: Whose Ignorance/Who’s Ignorant?
  • Part 2: How Could You Have Known? – You Already Did
  • Part 3: Cis Denial, Self-Knowledge, and Sexist Epistemology

Stereotypes

• Annie Murphy Paul: Intelligence and Stereotype Threat
• Stereotypes and Stereotyping: Chapter 6: Language and Stereotyping

Microaggressions

• The Real Katie: Lighten Up
• Microaggressions.com

Rights

• anti-imperialism.com: “Let Them Eat Rights!” – Challenging the Discourse of Rights from the Left

Language

Free Speech

• alyx.io: Liberal Free Speech Values

Offense

• Fineness & Accuracy: I Don’t Care If You’re Offended
• Genderbitch: Words and Offense
• Not Rich Yet: What’s the big deal?

“Political Correctness”

• Shadow’s Crescent: The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propaganda of “Political Correctness”

“Jokes”

• NPR: An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, “Why Is This Joke Funny?”
• EHB Online: It’s Funny Because we Think it’s True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences (Evolution & Human Behavior, Vol. 31, No. 2 (March 2010), pp. 141-148)
• libcom: The Anatomy of a Joke

Arguments

Tone Arguments

• Geek Feminism Wiki: Tone Argument
• But Not the Armadillo: Tone Argument as Logical Fallacy

Derailment

• Bird of Paradox: Derailing for Dummies

Silencing Tactics

• Geek Feminism Wiki: Silencing Tactics

Misc

Skepticism

• bonds: Why I am no Longer a Skeptic
• bonds: Your Baloney Detection Kit Sucks
• bonds: The Cult of Bayes’ Theorem

Technology

• Ashe Dryden: The Ethics of Unpaid Labour and the OSS Community