One safeguard against this would be doing it with more advanced students instead of freshmen, as I suggested elsewhere on the thread, so that they are already somewhat used to evaluating arguments and claims in a detached, academic way. Another one would be pairing opposite views: white nationalism and black liberation theology, extreme radical feminism and conservative Catholic theology, etc. Then people with weak preexisting convictions are unlikely to be swayed to one side.
Another one would be pairing opposite views: white nationalism and black liberation theology, extreme radical feminism and conservative Catholic theology, etc. Then people with weak preexisting convictions are unlikely to be swayed to one side.
The thing is, in both those cases the two positions have more in common than either would be willing to admit.
For example, both white nationalism and black liberation theology state that people of different races shouldn’t live together. Both extreme radical feminism and conservative Catholic theology have similar positions on pornography for reasons that are actually remarkably similar once one unpacks their jargon.
“extreme” doesn’t really add anything to the label. I think this lady is pretty radical / far from the mainstream on gender issues. And she doesn’t seem to agree with Dworkin about the value of sex and sexuality.
One safeguard against this would be doing it with more advanced students instead of freshmen, as I suggested elsewhere on the thread, so that they are already somewhat used to evaluating arguments and claims in a detached, academic way. Another one would be pairing opposite views: white nationalism and black liberation theology, extreme radical feminism and conservative Catholic theology, etc. Then people with weak preexisting convictions are unlikely to be swayed to one side.
The thing is, in both those cases the two positions have more in common than either would be willing to admit.
For example, both white nationalism and black liberation theology state that people of different races shouldn’t live together. Both extreme radical feminism and conservative Catholic theology have similar positions on pornography for reasons that are actually remarkably similar once one unpacks their jargon.
Dworkin doesn’t speak for all feminists, and asserting that she does is a bit of a strawman / boo light.
“extreme” doesn’t really add anything to the label. I think this lady is pretty radical / far from the mainstream on gender issues. And she doesn’t seem to agree with Dworkin about the value of sex and sexuality.