Why You Can Be Transgender But Not Transracial

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 159 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 39 One of the more peculiar features of the Theory of Critical Social Justice for many people is why it is acceptable under Theory to be trangender but absolutely forbidden to be transracial. The short answer to this question, which is sometimes given (usually after someone steps on the landmine of thinking they can pull off a transracial argument or identity), is that Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory approach the issue of identity differently. This is correct on a superficial level but facile to the way that the overarching Critical Social Justice ideology thinks about power and its interaction with identity. Understood more deeply, both Theories are doing the same thing in different ways. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay goes through all of this heavy Theoretical detail to explain why it is, from within Theory, that you can be transgender but not transracial. He then shifts to explain how and why these Theories likely developed the way that they did by investigating the proximate incentive structures that motivated their developments. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Everyone, welcome to the new Discourses podcast, I'm James Lindsay and we are going to solve
0:27.6	some of the questions that we are going to talk about today, why are there transgenders
0:51.2	or identities, why are they in fact celebrated, but why are there no transracial identities
0:57.8	and in fact when people as we occasionally see often white women who are trying to advance
1:06.2	their careers, we often see the attempt to portray themselves as some racial minority and then they
1:14.3	get absolutely burned for it. More than that, we see occasionally somebody weighed into this
1:22.0	minefield and step on a land mine, blow themselves up, maybe most recently about a month and a half
1:30.7	ago as of this recording, so sometime in spring I'll just say of 2021, the evolutionary biologist
1:39.8	and kind of famous atheist Richard Dawkins stepped on this land mine himself, he tweeted something
1:45.7	about the issue, why is there transgender but no trans race, something something discuss and
1:53.0	people went berserk, people went absolutely berserk and it led to whatever it was that he had done
2:02.4	with this whole discussion of this issue led him to have some honor, a humanist of the year or
2:08.3	something like this revoked by all of these woke secular organizations that are going to have
2:13.2	to virtue signal, but far more relevant than the Dawkins event of 2021 was the Rebecca
2:20.8	Tovelle Hypatia affair of maybe was it 2017 or something like this, it was right before actually
2:27.5	we did the grievance studies affair because it's kind of funny because Hypatia because of us and
2:31.3	because of what happened with Rebecca Tovelle which they were still undergoing the problems from when
2:37.0	we did the grievance studies affair and we're submitting papers to him, Hypatia which is the leading
2:41.3	feminist philosophy journal, got hit with a double whammy of embarrassment that I don't know,
2:49.3	they seem to just be tweeting through it as they say, they seem to just be trucking on but it
2:53.6	really should have been a death blow to their reputation and so what happened then was a feminist
3:01.0	researcher named Rebecca Tovelle who as far as I understand has her PhD from Vanderbilt University,
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