This is a partially examined life episode 328 part 2. We've been talking with Yashamunk about the identity trap.

I was most curious about what the status of this book is as a form of rhetoric that in another

interview you did with Coleman Hughes who's been on this show talking about social construction you say this is not a polemic

But I definitely read it as a polemic and in fact you have at the end of the book like here's strategies how to respond when

people attack you with the identity synthesis like it's is a manual you know as

if it were here's a manual for Christian apologists or something and when you have

unbelievers here's what to say in response to this and response to this like how is

this not a pole I mean you clearly have a political point that you want to make

it's not merely merely an history, it's not merely an observation.

You clearly, you know, feel strongly about the social thing that you're trying to put forward to the point of providing these.

I know it's hard to stand up to your peers.

I know if you're running a business

and people raise these objections and want to cancel you.

Like, well, we got to stand, you know,

it's a very practical advice that goes into,

at least the end of this book.

I think it depends on what you mean by a polemic, right?

I think I'm at pains throughout the book to present

both the subtle intellectual history behind these ideas and

you know the stronger versions of the claims that people are making on behalf of the identity

synthesis but you know certainly I have come to the conclusion that these ideas are as the title of the book suggests a trap that they are a big mistake

But they help to explain why so many progressive institutions have failed to serve the important missions over the course of the last decade because of the internal

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