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Identity Politics Redux: Apologies for Historical Injustice and Deliberation about Race
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particularities. Under these conversational rules, speech that merely expresses feeling is
irrelevant unless conclusions may be drawn from it. Moreover, those bodily gestures that may
accompany speech, such as weeping or reaching out, threaten the objectivity or reasoned
discourse. Young writes:
The norms of deliberation... privilege speech that is dispassionate and disembodied. They tend to presuppose an opposition between mind and body, reason and emotion. They tend falsely to identify objectivity with calm and absence of emotional expression. Thus expressions of anger, hurt and passionate concern discount the claims and reasons they accompany. Similarly, the entrance of the body into speech - in wide gestures, movements of nervousness or body expressions of emotion - are signs of weakness thatcancel out one’s assertions or reveal one’s lack of objectivity and control.
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grounds that the former allows more latitude in the forms of speech recognized. Communicating ideas becomes crucial, rather than arguing them. See: Young, “Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy,” in Democracy and Difference, 122-125.
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Young, “Communication and the Other,” 124.
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Smits/29
particularities. Under these conversational rules, speech that merely expresses feeling is
irrelevant unless conclusions may be drawn from it. Moreover, those bodily gestures that may
accompany speech, such as weeping or reaching out, threaten the objectivity or reasoned
discourse. Young writes:
The norms of deliberation... privilege speech that is dispassionate and disembodied. They
tend to presuppose an opposition between mind and body, reason and emotion. They
tend falsely to identify objectivity with calm and absence of emotional expression. Thus
expressions of anger, hurt and passionate concern discount the claims and reasons they
accompany. Similarly, the entrance of the body into speech - in wide gestures,
movements of nervousness or body expressions of emotion - are signs of weakness that
cancel out one’s assertions or reveal one’s lack of objectivity and control.
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grounds that the former allows more latitude in the forms of speech recognized. Communicating
ideas becomes crucial, rather than arguing them. See: Young, “Communication and the Other:
Beyond Deliberative Democracy,” in Democracy and Difference, 122-125.
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Young, “Communication and the Other,” 124.
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