{"id":2941,"date":"2014-11-01T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2014-11-02T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T18:55:17","slug":"identity-pride-and-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/11\/01\/identity-pride-and-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity, pride, and prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian started a bit of a kerfuffle on Twitter a\u00a0couple days back:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterboghossian\/status\/527862167152758784<\/p>\n<p>My favorite replies were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/danarel\/status\/527864825872134144<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterboghossian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peterboghossian<\/a> So gay pride isn&#39;t about acting as if being gay is an achievement but promoting dignity, self respect and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Ferguson (@Humanisticus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Humanisticus\/status\/527867579671801857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HPluckrose\/status\/527873951889100800<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the word &#8220;pride&#8221; admits of various\u00a0meanings, like all words in all languages.<\/p>\n<p>Application of the\u00a0philosophical <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Principle_of_charity\" target=\"_blank\">principle of charity<\/a>\u00a0mandates that\u00a0Boghossian seek out\u00a0the definition of &#8220;pride&#8221; that makes the most sense in phrases like &#8220;black pride&#8221; or &#8220;gay pride,&#8221; so as to avoid attributing irrationality where none may exist.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the best definition is something like\u00a0the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/pride-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2942 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/pride-2.png\" alt=\"pride-2\" width=\"723\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/pride-2.png 723w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/pride-2-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt makes perfect sense for a group facing widespread and irrational prejudice to deliberately assert their self-esteem, dignity, honour, and self-respect in order to\u00a0push back against such\u00a0prejudice. It also makes sense to say that the very act of asserting one&#8217;s self-worth in the face of hateful bigotry is a courageous act, an accomplishment worthy\u00a0of pride in the more usual sense of taking satisfaction in a worthy job well done.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, there is nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian started a bit of a kerfuffle on Twitter a\u00a0couple days back: https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterboghossian\/status\/527862167152758784 My favorite replies were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}