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Jun 25, 2023
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Self-identification. We live in a world in which the dominant liberal-progressive view is that an individual’s gender identity is whatever that individual feels it to be. In this sense, radical subjectivity has never been stronger in Western culture. But at the same time, identity politics is based on immutable collective identities, many of them starkl…

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