This was amusing, from philosopher and political activist Ben Burgis:
It’s one thing to know that someone whose overwhelming passion is metaphysics or epistemology or even abstract moral philosophy is a huge lib, and another to see them become more and more politically engaged in ways you find insufferable. Part of this story is about the prevalence of identity politics and scolding moralism on the academic left. Another element has to do with annoying micro-trends like epistemologists telling themselves that they’re making some sort of contribution to emancipatory politics if they do abstract epistemology that centers around stuff like worrying about whether they’re committing a special epistemic sin if they think that the black guy at the country club is a waiter. (I’m not making up that example, by the way. I’ll leave the question of what it says about these people’s attitude toward waiters, black or white, as an exercise for the reader.)




The following is the text of my Facebook post on Sunday, March 22. That FB post is set to Public,…