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Comment author: hairyfigment 14 July 2014 07:28:55PM -1 points [-]

Either you don't read your own comments, or you classify all social justice as signaling.

In the latter case, I'm sure you'll come up with reasons why you aren't making a fully general counterargument. I would urge you to stop for a second and ask concretely what you would have thought about, say, abolitionists.

Comment author: James_Miller 14 July 2014 09:11:16PM 1 point [-]

I don't understand what you mean. Social justice is a label for a set of beliefs. I do not think that social justice is just about signaling. If it helps to understand what I mean, I'm a politically incorrect college professor.

Comment author: hairyfigment 14 July 2014 09:30:27PM -1 points [-]

academics are supposed to raise the status of their institution...He teaches at an elite university so it's highly probably he greatly values social justice.

Comment author: James_Miller 14 July 2014 10:01:51PM -1 points [-]

Are you implying that there is a contradiction in what you quoted? If so, I don't see it.

Comment author: hairyfigment 15 July 2014 01:57:08AM -2 points [-]

There may indeed be a contradiction, but the real question - if we grant the first part - is what do you know and how do you know it? This seems to me like a really obvious point.