Again, there's no reason arguments for gender should apply to race. You certainly haven't given one.It damages Butler's argument to the extent that you or her find the analogous use unconvincing.
Again, there's no reason arguments for gender should apply to race. You certainly haven't given one.It damages Butler's argument to the extent that you or her find the analogous use unconvincing.
Entire swathes of the world reject the argument as it pertains to sex/gender so I wouldn't get too hung up on what 'society' 'accepts' or notNo it doesn't apply. Society by and large accepts the concept of gender and rejects the concept of transracialism. You have to give a reason why we should even apply this logic to race in the first place.
Either the argument is logical or not and it's the same argument; there's no supplementary 'reason'Again, there's no reason arguments for gender should apply to race. You certainly haven't given one.
Well basically no one accepts transracialism. Do you not believe culture exists?Entire swathes of the world reject the argument as it pertains to sex/gender so I wouldn't get too hung up on what 'society' 'accepts' or not
By Butler's logic, they should doWell basically no one accepts transracialism. Do you not believe culture exists?
False. It's not enough just to apply logic to empirical facts. You have to also give a reason for us to believe that it is appropriate to apply this logic to this specific set of empirical facts. So for example, the logic of the natural sciences doesn't always apply to the social sciences. Does that mean we should reject the social sciences? Or does it simply mean that the character of the facts that social sciences study does not warrant the application of natural scientific arguments?Either the argument is logical or not and it's the same argument; there's no supplementary 'reason'
There's no preliminary reason given in the two-step argument you gave earlierFalse. It's not enough just to apply logic to empirical facts. You have to also give a reason for us to believe that it is appropriate to apply this logic to this specific set of empirical facts. So for example, the logic of the natural sciences doesn't always apply to the social sciences. Does that mean we should reject the social sciences? Or does it simply mean that the character of the facts that social sciences study does not warrant the application of natural scientific arguments?
False, again. There is no reason to apply Butler's logic to race. One thing I'll tell you is this: there is certainly a difference between racial identity and racial culture. Being born black doesn't mean you automatically contribute to black culture. Just like being born female doesn't mean you automatically act like a woman.By Butler's logic, they should do
Yes, you're saying they're equivalent thereFalse, again. There is no reason to apply Butler's logic to race. One thing I'll tell you is this: there is certainly a difference between racial identity and racial culture. Being born black doesn't mean you automatically contribute to black culture. Just like being born female doesn't mean you automatically act like a woman.
But my argument there doesn't support transracialism. I never said actions define racial identity.Yes, you're saying they're equivalent there
The preliminary reason is that we want to define gender and there's no anti-essentialist alternative to viewing gender as a social construct. But there is clearly an alternative to understanding race as a social construct. That being said, I do believe that race involves both biological and socially constructed elements. But that belief doesn't entail transracialism.There's no preliminary reason given in the two-step argument you gave earlier
But they could legitimately be said to, to the same extent as actions might define 'gender'But my argument there doesn't support transracialism. I never said actions define racial identity.
Gender as either identical to sex or inextricably linked to it, obviouslyThere's no anti-essentialist alternative to viewing gender as a social construct.
No they can't. No one ever said that actions define race and you certainly never justified that definition of race. Acting black doesn't make you black. But acting like a woman makes you a woman. It's not hard to figure out.But they could legitimately be said to, to the same extent as actions might define 'gender'
That isn't defining gender, that's just reducing gender to sex and thus eliminating the concept of gender.Gender as either identical to sex or inextricably linked to it, obviously
People have said that and your only recourse is to convention - not a philosophical argument!No they can't. No one ever said that actions define race and you certainly never justified that definition of race. Acting black doesn't make you black. But acting like a woman makes you a woman. It's not hard to figure out.
In this definition, it's a facet of sex, sex expression but it can't be unlinked. That doesn't mean it's necessarily eliminatedThat isn't defining gender, that's just reducing gender to sex and thus eliminating the concept of gender.
False. First, why should we accept that actions define race? There's no reason. Second, what we are studying here is literally social conventions, so I'm not appealing to convention in lieu of an argument, I'm explaining the conventions that tell us how to define race.People have said that and your only recourse is to convention - not a philosophical argument!
But if it's a facet of sex, how do we differentiate it from sex? I never denied that there are connections between sex and gender, I said that sex doesn't determine gender. And if you claim sex determines gender, then you are again reducing gender to sex.In this definition, it's a facet of sex, sex expression but it can't be unlinked. That doesn't mean it's necessarily eliminated