Listening to the podcast was painful. If anything I've been too generous to his views in my article above. He has clearly not read a single study on vaccine safety and effectiveness. And he appears to know no actual conservatives because he completely misrepresents their views. Lakoff and Duran create a straw man caricature of conservatism that does not exist in the real world and then they proceed to tear it down and set it on fire. This is bad faith and extremely disappointing.
When I teach, I operate from the belief that any class worth its salt becomes a meditation on the human condition. Lakoff's views on the pandemic are cheap and completely wrong. There is room, indeed a huge need, for a nuanced conservation about different worldviews during this crisis. But progressives seem completely unable to have that conversation right now.
Yet you're willing to use his views on progressives in order to tear them down. If his views are so bad faith, why are we to trust what he has to say about progressives?
Your article mentions two parent models, but only examines one. You take those model assumptions at face-valur and use them to frame progressives as hypocritical and failing on their responsibilities.
When you finally examine how that model perceives the other side, however, suddenly you have concerns about authenticity and whether it's a fair representation at all -- though, only as it pertains to conservatives.
When you already believe that progressives all blindly follow the same orders and mindsets, what conversation is there to be had? You were willing to use Lakoff's views to prop your own position up when it suited, but dismissed it out of hand when the views on the other side were examined. The very article appeals for critical thinking and unbiased due diligence as a responsibility -- do you hold yourself to same?
Those are fair points. I do think progressives are acting in lock step and contrary to the values that attracted me to the movement in the first place. So I think Lakoff understands his own tribe pretty well and personifies their recent intellectual drift, even though apparently he knows few actual conservatives.
In the effort to make sure I was being fair to George Lakoff's views on the pandemic I just listened to a 45 minute podcast he did on the topic:
https://soundcloud.com/user-253479697/freedom-empathy-vaccines-death
And I discovered that Lakoff has a Substack now too ("FrameLab" with Gil Duran):
https://framelab.substack.com/p/liberty-vaccines-and-death
Listening to the podcast was painful. If anything I've been too generous to his views in my article above. He has clearly not read a single study on vaccine safety and effectiveness. And he appears to know no actual conservatives because he completely misrepresents their views. Lakoff and Duran create a straw man caricature of conservatism that does not exist in the real world and then they proceed to tear it down and set it on fire. This is bad faith and extremely disappointing.
When I teach, I operate from the belief that any class worth its salt becomes a meditation on the human condition. Lakoff's views on the pandemic are cheap and completely wrong. There is room, indeed a huge need, for a nuanced conservation about different worldviews during this crisis. But progressives seem completely unable to have that conversation right now.
Yet you're willing to use his views on progressives in order to tear them down. If his views are so bad faith, why are we to trust what he has to say about progressives?
Your article mentions two parent models, but only examines one. You take those model assumptions at face-valur and use them to frame progressives as hypocritical and failing on their responsibilities.
When you finally examine how that model perceives the other side, however, suddenly you have concerns about authenticity and whether it's a fair representation at all -- though, only as it pertains to conservatives.
When you already believe that progressives all blindly follow the same orders and mindsets, what conversation is there to be had? You were willing to use Lakoff's views to prop your own position up when it suited, but dismissed it out of hand when the views on the other side were examined. The very article appeals for critical thinking and unbiased due diligence as a responsibility -- do you hold yourself to same?
Those are fair points. I do think progressives are acting in lock step and contrary to the values that attracted me to the movement in the first place. So I think Lakoff understands his own tribe pretty well and personifies their recent intellectual drift, even though apparently he knows few actual conservatives.