> "the author is wrong because of their identity" or rather "the author is not only wrong but evil/hateful/racist/otherwise-deserving-of-cancelation because of their identity"
Nitpick: this is not about the author's identity[1][2], but about incidental physical characteristics[0] or (charitably) aesthetic preferences[3].
0: ie, the person making the 'rebuttal' is themselves racist/sexist/etc.
Nitpick: this is not about the author's identity[1][2], but about incidental physical characteristics[0] or (charitably) aesthetic preferences[3].
0: ie, the person making the 'rebuttal' is themselves racist/sexist/etc.
1: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html
2: http://web.archive.org/web/20200623015648_/https://slatestar...
3: see [2] and search for "Tribe is most classically typified by" and "code word for the Red Tribe".