#pluralism

Half the Answer #7: Caitlin and Trent discuss with guest Alan Elrod the nature of #nationalism, the kinds of nationalism at play today, and how U.S. progressives can participate in a national #identity that celebrates #pluralism and #multiculturalism. #podcast https://www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/half-the-answer-7-what-is-nationalism/

"Despite local variations, #academic #freedom is tied to a shared vision of the #university that upholds freedom of thought, with #rationality and #pluralism at its core. It includes the genuine “right to be wrong”…"

Read:
theconversation.com/academic-fre...
https://theconversation.com/academic-freedom-and-democracy-under-siege-how-a-nobel-peace-prize-could-help-defend-them-251494

"As Niebuhr warned, democratic institutions are both the cause and consequence of cultural #pluralism. Yet, their openness can also be manipulated to restore what he calls a 'primitive unity,' one that suppresses difference through coercion." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/if-reinhold-niebuhr-could-speak-to-us-today-what-would-he-say/

“Why do you want to be in an echo chamber?” grossly underestimates the amount of disagreement within a coalition.

It is also important not to misperceive an echo chamber where power incumbents within a group are attempting to control the narrative through an appearance of consensus, e.g. “We’re all on the same team (so long as you agree with our position)” etc.

#organizing #dialogue #pluralism #OrganizationalCommunication

3/4 ... with the #RuleOfLaw) in favor of neo- #feudalism in which #loyalty (ideological and material) to the high-tech stato-oligarchic #elite and their political #representatives takes precedence over all other considerations, with the support of #farright political forces which guarantee rents and #protectionism . #Europe, organized around the #idea of political #pluralism and a #market that is both #competitive and #regulated by the state and the #EU , as well as #Japan , risk being... (4/4)

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-7-2024

..."#Obama stood firm on the idea that the way to reclaim #democracy is to build #coalitions around taking action on #issues that matter to the #American people without regard to personal #identities or #political affiliations. #Pluralism, Obama said, “is about recognizing that in a democracy, #power comes from forging #alliances, and building coalitions, and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke but also for the waking.”

And that, in many ways,’”...

Who else is sick of American #Caucacity?
A term used to make fun of behaviors & call out what’s seen to be bold instances of white privilege
See Trump MAGA voters
America must embrace #Pluralism
Per Barack Obama:
"To find a way to live alongside individuals & groups who are different than

The Creepy Weirdos™ arrived at the conclusion that they did not wish to live in a society which tolerated #pluralism back when Brown overturned Plessy.

Obama taught constitutional law and you’d think he would have internalized this reality by now.

But, no, just earnest platitudes at the close of the Year of Our Science 2024.

Hard to articulate how disappointing a figure this man has become.
https://www.threads.net/@barackobama/post/DDONVosNnBq

Making a Judeo-Christian America: The Christian Right, Antisemitism, and the Politics of
Religious Pluralism in the 20th Century United States
Andrew Warne, PhD Dissertation 2012

"accepting religious diversity through performative language allowed Americans not only to redefine their national identity, but also to articulate a range of moral and political claims in the name of the Judeo-Christian tradition."

https://www.proquest.com/openview/fab319707acc3deb5681a24dee47cb80/1

#History #USPol #Religion #Inclusion #Pluralism

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”
Livia Gershon for JSTOR Daily, 2024

"while the idea of a Judeo-Christian tradition was originally used to combat antisemitism, it can also be weaponized against other worldviews."

"religion scholar Shalom Goldman has argued that the term has become 'a cover for an attack on the values of the Enlightenment; the very values that enabled Jews to enter Western societies.'"

https://daily.jstor.org/jews-vs-the-judeo-christian-tradition/

#Religion #Inclusion #Pluralism #RightWing #Antisemitism

Last night he called his win a movement.

Try this.
https://hachyderm.io/@jlepawsky/113437477772057603

#pluralism #DonaldTrump #MAGA #election2024

Pluralism in Multicultural Liberal Democracy and the Justification of Female Circumcision
S. K. Hellsten, J. Applied Philosophy 1999

"One does not realise what is best in oneself if social pressures to conform to custom lead one mindlessly along or when one is not given a choice in the first place, either `because of being kept in ignorance or because of being terrorised by the wielders of bayonets'."

https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/1468-5930.00109

#Autonomy #Liberalism #Pluralism #Philosophy #Tradition

Qualifying the praise of outsiders

At Daily Nous, Justin writes in praise of the outsider perspective. He quotes William Lycan:

An outsider to a small subliterature is more likely than is an insider to make an interesting or even important contribution to it. And the same for an outsider to a whole problematic within an area of philosophy. And possibly the same …

https://www.fecundity.com/nfw/2024/09/26/qualifying-the-praise-of-outsiders/

#philosophy #pluralism #TheProfession

Once again (importantly) the issue of #multilingualism and #pluralism comes up.

"#AI can help - it provides a "half-baked baguette" we can then finalize." (paraphrase)

- Colin de La Higuera, UNESCO Chair in #AI and #OER

I don't have to agree with every position on the left to broadly agree.

I don’t have to disagree with every concern on the the right to broadly sympathise.

#Pluralism #Humanism #WeAreOne

Still in rough draft form, I've published the paper I read "What Is 'Public Philosophy'? A Pluralist Approach and Proposal" at the 2023 Wisconsin Philosophical Society in my Medium site

https://medium.com/gregory-b-sadler-ph-d/what-is-public-philosophy-a-pluralist-approach-and-proposal-cd415c7027e4
#Philosophy #Public #Pluralism #Paper #Definition #Distinction

The US is not a #democracy. Our system of constitutional governance was specifically designed to thwart democracy and the #tyranny of the majority.

We have lost the critical mass of consensus on the importance of holding a common belief in #pluralism, and we have fallen prey to the tyranny of a minority which has manipulated our system of #federalism and made bastions of their voting districts and state legislatures.

If we do not act immediately, we will not recover without bloodshed.

"Faced with these changes in the American population, the GOP has chosen to retrench rather than reform. …

In this light, the Jan. 6 coup attempt was not just an operation to keep the 'right' person in office (Donald Trump), but an attempt to keep the 'wrong' people, such as Vice President Kamala Harris, out."

#FourthofJuly #democracy #pluralism #race
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"Celebrating America as a multiracial democracy is also forward-looking and pragmatic. The latest census document confirms that the non-Hispanic White population is shrinking. People classified by the Census Bureau as belonging to 'Two or More Races' are the fast-growing group, followed by Asians and Hispanics.

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#FourthofJuly #democracy #pluralism #race
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/patriotism-as-defense-of-americas