Kwame Anthony Appiah professor of philosophy and law at New York University, "The Ethicist" for the New York Times Magazine, and author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (Liveright, 2018), pushes back on our current thinking about identity.
.@KAnthonyAppiah: Feminist reflection on sexuality and gender is enormously useful for thinking about other kinds of identity.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 30, 2018
.@KAnthonyAppiah: It's not helpful to say that "there's this thing that all women have and it defines them," and the same is true for race and other forms of identity.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 30, 2018
.@KAnthonyAppiah says he's in favor of "18th-century condescension," the act of treating someone as your equal, despite being above them in some hierarchy.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 30, 2018