Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars – The 'Art of Thinking' Greg Scorzo with Piers Benn (Part 2)

Here is the second part of Greg Scorzo’s ‘Art of Thinking’ session with philosopher Piers Benn. Scorzo and Benn discuss additional issues that come up in Piers Benn’s book, Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars. More specifically, they discuss whether being in an historically oppressed group justifies verbally abusing people who belong to more privileged groups, when can one assume racism is no longer a political problem, the psychological incentives all parties have to take certain political stances within identity politics, whether racism accusations are unfalsifiable, the different varieties of virtue signalling, the definition of racism, the paradoxes of unconscious bias training, the political polarisation over Brexit, and the ethics of the unsolicited d**k pic.

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