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arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Sun Mar 31, 2013, 12:47 AM Mar 2013

and the engendering of empowerment at least achieves the doubtful virtue of innocuousness.

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the relationship between the delegitimization of structural identity [View all] arely staircase Mar 2013 OP

Can you restate that in English? OffWithTheirHeads Mar 2013 #1

I feel this post is othering me kenny blankenship Mar 2013 #2

did you? arely staircase Mar 2013 #4

WTF? No WTF? option? n/t eridani Mar 2013 #3

i never use wtf. why? arely staircase Mar 2013 #10

Deep eridani Mar 2013 #12

+1 BainsBane Mar 2013 #18

other Kali Mar 2013 #5

That was rather a Random Thought tkmorris Mar 2013 #6

Both!!! We don't *do* innocuousness at DU, but we should! freshwest Mar 2013 #7

innocuousness is like arely staircase Mar 2013 #11

perhaps it is reductionist arely staircase Mar 2013 #9

totally disagree Kalidurga Mar 2013 #13

a straw identity! arely staircase Mar 2013 #14

awesome Kalidurga Mar 2013 #17

and you seem to have been one of the few to "get" the whole thing arely staircase Mar 2013 #34

"...there is no such thing as a legitimate structural identity..." sibelian Mar 2013 #21

No more falsifiable than claim there are no pink unicorns... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #23

But the credibility of that analogous claim sibelian Mar 2013 #24

Actually, there is - BUT it's impossible for anyone jazzimov Mar 2013 #22

Outing OPs--Textual objectivism and subcultural narrative eridani Mar 2013 #15

like i tell my kids everyday arely staircase Mar 2013 #16

Did the philosophy group Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #19

Yes. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #29

Disagree. They are exact opposites. jazzimov Mar 2013 #20

it isn't condescending arely staircase Mar 2013 #26

this just gets better and better arely staircase Mar 2013 #32

I would say "doubtful virtue of vacuousness", but otherwise, yeah. nt bemildred Mar 2013 #27

these words don't mean anything datasuspect Mar 2013 #28

yes, yes and no eom arely staircase Mar 2013 #33

The fragmentation of realism is nearly obtuse in its morphology. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #31