Arguing for a Better World: How to talk about the issues that divide us

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This brilliant and very enjoyable book brings cooling clarity and patient empathy to the noise and heat of today's so-called 'Culture Wars'. This is insightful explication at its best, essential reading for anyone engaged with many of today's most pressing public arguments -- Priyamvada Gopal, Author of INSURGENT EMPIRE Learning to distinguish arguments that reveal (the potential for) unintended consequences we’d rather avoid and arguments that reveal worthwhile ways to improve things, from baseless assumptions, personal preferences and ideologically polarized points of view, is a skill-set we would do well to develop and integrate into our institutions, organizations, interpersonal relations and intra-psychic worlds. Political and generational divides often dictate how questions such as these are answered, and when asked most people give automatic answers that roughly align with the broader position they believe is right – though many flounder when asked to detail their reasoning. This creates cultural and political tribes, makes people nervous about engaging at all, or leads to the issues to be trivialised or attributed to the excessive sensitivity of ‘snowflakes’ to ‘identity politics’. Though conservative readers may part ways with the author, even they may be interested in the cogent analysis she provides.

Now imagine that instead of losing another hour of your life in a social media spat or knowing that the only way to make it through lunch was by biting your tongue, you could find a way to talk about injustice – and, just possibly, change someone’s mind. Now imagine that instead of losing another hour of your life in a social media spat or knowing that the only way to make it through lunch was by biting your tongue, you could find a way to talk about injustice - and, just possibly, change someone's mind.Gives progressives everything they need to defend their views in an increasingly polarized public sphere . . . Arguing for a Better World belongs on nightstands and in book clubs everywhere -- Carol Hay, author of Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution The Good Fight: An Interview with Haki R. Madhubuti on "Taught By Women" "Taught by Women" is a culmination of my saying to all these women, … thank you, that you did not do this for me, you did this for us, you did it for the nation.

These questions tap into some of today’s most divisive issues, and finding an answer can often lead to confusion and resentment. In Arguing for a Better World , philosopher Arianne Shahvisi draws on examples from everyday life to show us how to work through a set of thorny moral questions, equipping us to not only identify our positions but to carefully defend them. Many of us know what we think about inequality, but flounder when asked for our reasoning, leading to a conversational stalemate – especially when faced with a political, generational, or cultural divide. But living in echo chambers blunts our thinking, and if we can’t persuade others, we have little hope of collectively bringing about change. Raises important questions, but seems fixated on everything anecdotally wrong in the world excessively, akin to pharmaceutical companies inflating the dangers of curses or disease, or defense contractors exaggerating and clamoring for war. Seems to add fuel to a fire and increase polarity and divisiveness intentionally to validate her perspective, versus actually developing a framework to build meaningful coalitions that can be true change agents.

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Allows us to not only interrogate our own views, but to persuade others using reason and optimism. A must read -- Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto The circular logic of the argument is the key to plausible deniability inserted in every chapter of the book. The card “oh, this is a reverse racism, not racism”. Because there are always a lot of stereotypical groups above in the hierarchy of suffering.

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I suppose it’s natural for a career academic to become transfixed on anecdotal information to support a preconceived mindset versus challenging assumptions, considering different perspectives, and removing any and all nuance, but it makes her arguments general and weak kneed. Is it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change? Allows us to not only interrogate our own views, but to persuade others using reason and optimism. A must read’ Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism Allows us to not only interrogate our own views, but to persuade others using reason and optimism. A must read' Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism Men are trash อาจเป็นวลีที่ก้าวร้าวรุนแรง (offensive) แต่มันไม่ได้กดทับ (oppressive) เพราะผลกระทบต่อชีวิตผู้ชายค่อนข้างจำกัด ต่อให้วลีนี้กลายเป็นวลีฮิตก็ไม่ได้ทำให้ผู้ชายสูญเสียอะไร และที่มาของมันก็ไม่ได้เกิดจากความเกลียดชัง แต่เป็น demand for justice ที่ไม่เคยได้รับการตอบสนอง เพราะฟังก์ชันนึงของ Men are trash คือสาดสปอตไลท์ไปที่ฝั่งผู้กระทำ และย้ำเตือนว่าความรุนแรงเหล่านี้เป็นปัญหาของผู้ชายที่ผู้ชายต้องไปแก้ ไม่ใช่ให้เหยื่อปรับตัว