This podcast is a place for spillover from my ethics classes. The conversation continues in podcast form. Some episodes are review, others are elaboration, and some highlight important insights and questions from my students. I hope the content makes you wish you were in the class :P Enjoy!
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This podcast is a place for spillover from my ethics classes. The conversation continues in podcast form. Some episodes are review, others are elaboration, and some highlight important insights and questions from my students. I hope the content makes you wish you were in the class :P Enjoy!
The Problem With Identity Politics (part I interview with Naomi Zack)
Contemporary Moral Issues (Joel’s Ethics Classes)
36 minutes 30 seconds
2 years ago
The Problem With Identity Politics (part I interview with Naomi Zack)
Philosopher Naomi Zack is critical of identity politics––it does not belong in the government, or so she argues. My students raised a bunch of questions and criticisms of her view. This episode is part I of a discussion with Naomi Zack where we chat through my students' questions and criticisms. Here's the content:
Min 3:30 What are you thinking about identity politics right now?
Min 4: “The personal is political” became “the political is personal.”
Min 5: The culture wars encroached on politics
Min 8:30: why the politicization of identity and culture wars is dangerous
Min 10:20: how did you first get interested in identity politics?
Min 11: how “we all have a race” opened the door to oppressors asserting their identity
Min 13: why there was a need for identity politics after WWII.
Min 15:15: identity politics worked well as a “social movement” leading to anti-discrimination law.
Min 16:10: the problem is an “all out war of identities”
Min 18:30: the purpose of government is to solve problems
Min 20:30: “It’s not just the Right that’s problematic” (Biden: “save the soul of America”).
Min 23:30: What are your views on reparations?
Min 28:50: Does protest work? Does protest disrupt the purpose of the government?
Contemporary Moral Issues (Joel’s Ethics Classes)
This podcast is a place for spillover from my ethics classes. The conversation continues in podcast form. Some episodes are review, others are elaboration, and some highlight important insights and questions from my students. I hope the content makes you wish you were in the class :P Enjoy!
