What I can’t get over is how Italy, a country that produced the leading thinkers of today, manages to put out such abysmally low level of scholarship. I listened today to a long talk by a chirpy young scholar who thinks that Bauman discussed liquid identity as something positive and liberating. When I asked a question about this, I don’t think she even understood it.
The whole talk could have been given in 2005. Online feminism is going to change the world for the better! Fluid identities are the best! We should always be ready to change because that helps women fight against patriarchal societies! Slutwalks are true activism! And then, utterly incongruously, there’s a lot of antisemitism and we have to battle it! How slutwalks will defeat antisemitism remained unexplored.
I listened with gritted teeth and wasn’t going to say anything but when she took Bauman’s name in vain to support these childish ideas, I couldn’t take it any longer.
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Look on the bright side: she could have used Bauman to advocate for Jew-bashing and Islamo-pandering.
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True. When my colleague from Ukraine was speaking, one rancid bitch was rolling her eyes because (as she later revealed) the discussion was taking attention away from Palestinians.
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