Shit Philosophers Say

very philosophical gifs

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When a white philosopher wants to talk about racism but not capitalism.

Like, did race just pop out of the aether as a fully formed concept, or are you just not sure the Middle Passage ever happened?

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Trying to decide if you should use “epistemically” or “epistemologically”.

Seriously though, can someone explain to me the difference?

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Reading Hume’s footnotes while being black.

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When someone uses Wittgenstein to defend a speciesist position.

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That person who uses the Q&A session as an opportunity to have a captive audience for their non sequitur.

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How I react when a philosopher insists that animals can’t be persons on the basis of dubious empirical claims about their capacities or the relationships they have with humans.

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When someone’s argument very clearly has negative implications for POC but they insist that their work “isn’t political”, so they’re just going to set aside your criticisms.

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When someone in the Q&A asks some version of, “How is this paper philosophy?”

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When a philosopher insists that severely disabled folks can’t be persons, or can be killed because their lives don’t matter as much as able bodied lives, or their parents should have had an abortion and tried again for a different baby.

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That face you make when a philosopher's conception of "human dignity" just happens to be perfectly synonymous with white bougie civil society norms.

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That face you make when yet another white philosopher uses the election of Obama as proof of America’s readiness for a racially just society.