And Leiter again, in what he would consider an unrelated post
The sociology (or politics, if you prefer) of the discipline is, alas, far more relevant to explaining the content of what gets discussed than philosophers like to admit.
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funny
Can you imagine if a law was passed codifying the US as the nation state of white Protestant Anglos and then describing it as a "a law black and Jewish citizens claim discriminates against minorities"?...
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Leiter's response links a post I mentioned before.
"Even in an apartheid state"
My (pseudonymous) reply was rejected.
Another win for sociology (or politics) over philosophy.
Rationalists rationalize.
I exchanged emails with an Israeli academic in the thick of the protests who when cornered said a binational state "would be a win for me". In public he still won't do it.
The occupation of land beyond 1967 borders is the issue only if you accept conquest and ethnocracy within the borders of 1947.
9. Slavery ended in part because these middle class elites realized that slavery – and the slaveholders it empowered - were a threat to their way of life. Hopefully more and more will realize that if Israel doesn’t end the occupation, the occupation will end Israel.
— Eli Cook (@Eli_B_Cook) March 28, 2023
Israel managed to maintain the image of a model liberal democracy for 75 years, 56 of those as a military dictatorship occupying millions of Palestinians. In just three months, Netanyahu may have crushed all that./1
— Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין (@MairavZ) March 27, 2023
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