May and June have been busy, with my book coming out in North America in May and now about to release in UK and the rest of the world. I have just received copies of the UK version, entitled Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Led to a Cultural Revolution. Also nice to get my first UK review in the Times, from the legendary Kathleen Stock! It shows some interesting agreements and disagreements. The latter are always the most interesting, in particular the claim of whether discrimination and freedom as I use them can be contested. My view, for instance, is that those who lack resources and thus have less speech power in the public square do not lack freedom, they lack resources. Or that discrimination on the basis of race, such as affirmative action quotas, is just that - even if a society’s culture is more aligned with ethnic groups that correlate with, say, whites rather than nonwhites. The latter is a question of advantage or disadvantage that we can choose to rectify to some extent, but it is not discrimination, in my view.
Taboo: An Update
Taboo: An Update
Taboo: An Update
May and June have been busy, with my book coming out in North America in May and now about to release in UK and the rest of the world. I have just received copies of the UK version, entitled Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Led to a Cultural Revolution. Also nice to get my first UK review in the Times, from the legendary Kathleen Stock! It shows some interesting agreements and disagreements. The latter are always the most interesting, in particular the claim of whether discrimination and freedom as I use them can be contested. My view, for instance, is that those who lack resources and thus have less speech power in the public square do not lack freedom, they lack resources. Or that discrimination on the basis of race, such as affirmative action quotas, is just that - even if a society’s culture is more aligned with ethnic groups that correlate with, say, whites rather than nonwhites. The latter is a question of advantage or disadvantage that we can choose to rectify to some extent, but it is not discrimination, in my view.