HI THERE, QUILLETTE READERS! Holly seems to have used my video (without my permission) to explain the Motte-and-Bailey fallacy, in an article defending some half-baked TERF ideology. I invite you to think critically about why it’s so important for TERFs that the legal protections afforded to women are never extended to trans women, why TERFs (at best) insist on separate-but-equal treatment, and why it’s so important for them to deny a tiny minority of people the right to live as they choose.
Motte and Bailey Arguments: because defending your actual position is way harder than defending a trivial one.
“The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology,” by Nicholas Shackel - https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf
“Archaeology of Knowledge,” by Michel Foucault, Shackel’s ur-punching bag for Motte-and-Bailey-ing - https://monoskop.org/images/9/90/Foucault_Michel_Archaeology_of_Knowledge.pdf
“The Social Construction of Reality,” by Berger and Luckmann - http://perflensburg.se/Berger%20social-construction-of-reality.pdf
“All in All, Another Brick in the Motte,” by Scott Alexander - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/
“Motte and Baileys Explained,” by Lagan History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxANUa0XHkA