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  1. Feb 2025

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  2. Jan 2025
    1. The story of anti-genderism in CEE isnot simply about the power of the Catholic Church in countries like Poland, Croatia,or Slovenia, but also about intense collaboration between the most conservative forceswithin the Church and the nationalist groups in the respective countries.

      this is striking

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    1. he impact of international influences, such as Saudifunding for madrassas, on sectarian politics remains underexplored.

      i feel like this does not arise logically out of the lr

    2. Through a methodological lens informed by Van Dijk (2009) and Wodak (2001), this researchunderscores the role of manifestos in reinforcing or challenging the dominant religiousnarratives.

      needing to go into more depth abiut it, quite unclear

    3. For instance, while manifestos may advocate for minority rights, they simultaneouslyreinforce the supremacy of Islam, reflecting broader societal and political tensions.

      do people actually look at manifestos? -> arent they a guiding frame for the politicians, needs to further expand on the interplay between voters and manifestos

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  3. Nov 2024

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    1. how might democratic systems of government, like utopian ideals, beunderstood in the sense of perpetual works in progress that can thus never be fully realised inan “ultimate” form?

      the question right now seems to be guided too much by the main idea of the book, i think it should be more open ended?

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    1. hese two features exclude today’s leftist movements, which almostsystematically defend cultural liberalism and largely advance an inclusive definition ofthe nation.

      I DISAGREE WITH THISSSSSSSSSS

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  4. Sep 2024
    1. mind so open that it was an-chored by no assumptions, no convictions of the kind that order and stabi-lize perception, would be a mind without gestalt and therefore without thecapacity of keeping anything in.

      there is no reference point to fixate what we deem important

    2. everything wesayimpingesontheworldinwaysindistinguishable fromtheeffectsofphysicalaction,we musttakeresponsibilityforour verbalperformances—allofthem—andnotassumethattheyarebeing takencaresof byaclauseintheConstitution.

      enhances accountability

    3. expres-sion,asanactivityandavalue,hasapureformthatisalwaysindangerofbeingcompromisedbytheurgingsofspecialinterestcommunities;butindependentlyofacommunitycontextinformedbyinterest(thatis,pur-pose),expressionwouldbeatonceinconceivableand unintelligible.

      expression is always situational

    4. ree speech,in short, is not an independent value but a political prize, and if that prizehas been captured by a politics opposed to yours, it can no longer be in-voked in ways that further your purposes, for it is now an obstacle to thosepurposes.

      it is a shallow term that finds meaning based on the agenda of the governance

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    1. 

      quite reductionist thoug, plenty of empirical examples would be able to counteract this argument.

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      contestation

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    1. Thediscovery of the book installs the sign of appropriate representation: theword of God, truth, art creates the conditions for a beginning, a practice ofhistory and narrative.

      knowledge as power and control; fixing origins

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    1. We must either deliberately oppose it, or draw back under colorof not understanding it, in order to feel out on all sides how it is lodgedin its author

      emphasis on comprehensive contestation

    2. unless he can derive from that experience the meansof forming his judgment and can make us aware that he has become wiserin the practice of his art.

      there is an emphasis on knowledge that comes from personal experience; rather than the one that is didactical

    3. their dexterity attacks and overpowers our senses, but it does not shakeour belief at all.

      Montaigne here seems to attack those who weaponise their access to studies as a way to intimidate others in conversations; to instill hierarchy

      • there is also maybe an implicit assumption that once you acquire a label like"master" there is also an ending point, a point of "saturation" in one's knowleesge that makes him shrug at the prospect of being corrected or perphaps challenged.

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    1. London became the focus of wealthy Victorians’ growing anx-ieties about the unregenerate poor, variously described as the “dangerous”or “ragged” classes, the “casual poor,” or the “residuum.

      but besides this, i think this was done to also eliminate members of the society who could not aid to the production of profit.

    2. Inthemappingofprogress,imagesof“archaic”time—thatis,non-Europeantime—weresystematicallyevokedtoidentifywhat washistoricallynewaboutindustrialmodernity.

      familiar to hall, the west used non-western traits to pinpoint difference as where their "greatness" lies.

    3. All too often, Enlightenment metaphysics presented knowledge as arelation of power between two gendered spaces, articulated by a journeyand a technology of conversion: the male penetration and exposure of aveiled, female interior; and the aggressive conversion of its “secrets” into avisible, male science of the surface.

      via which the men establish their dominance

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    1. In general,opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearingby studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance ofunnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slightdegree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employedon the side of the prevailing opinion really does deter people from pro-fessing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who profess them

      problematisation

    2. the teachers of mankind endeavouring to provide a substitutefor it; some contrivance for making the difficulties of the question aspresent to the learner’s consciousness, as if they were pressed upon himby a dissentient champion, eager for his conversion

      intellectual stimulation constantly provided

    3. He must be able to hear them frompersons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and dotheir very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausibleand persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty whichthe true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he willnever really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets andremoves that difficulty

      culture of listening and proper, authentic engagement

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    1. Our ideas of "East" and "West" have never been freeof myth and fantasy, and even to this day they are not primarily ideasabout place and geography.

      these ideas have a mythical baseline and are more based on visions and assumptions juxtaposed against one another. rather than empirical observations.

  6. Aug 2024
    1. Another aspect of the topic of free speech rarely mentionedis that in a climate where people do not feel able to expresstheir views, or are actively prevented from doing so, it maynot be possible simply to internalize the illicit view.

      "tyranny of the privileged"

    2. Laws and policies are not legitimateunless they have been adopted through ademocratic process, and a process is notdemocratic if government has preventedanyone from expressing his convictions aboutwhat those laws and policies should be.

      contestation as the necessary condition for legitimation

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  7. May 2024
    1. Further, the Sudanese people will know that there is a great deal ofmoney waiting to be turned over to them if they can replace the regimethat is looting their resources with a minimally decent, unified govern-ment.

      Quite reductionist

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  8. Apr 2024
    1. Because only savages have nothing more to fall back upon than theminimum fact of their human origin, people cling to their nationality all themore desperately when they have lost the rights and protection that suchnationality once gave them.

      this goes hand in hand with whta modernist presupposed: that instrinsic differences are flattened and rather obscured under in the made up national identity

    2. he human being who has losthis place in a community, his political status in the struggle of his time, andthe legal personality which makes his actions and part of his destiny a con-sistent whole, is left with those qualities which usually can become articulateonly in the sphere of private life and must remain unqualified, mere exist-ence in all matters of public concern.

      the dichtomoy of the private/ public sphere and the shape the individual takes, moulds her dignity

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    1. that's the way they are,

      Essentialism- we follow the transition from a culture that is dynamic and nuanced, to it being subjugated and instrumentalised by the colonizers to essentialise the groups -> objectification

    2. The social panorama is destructured; values are flaunted,crushed, emptied.

      Culture acts a binding element that could mobillize the people against domination; culture can also act as a means in this sense, but also as an end: it is something that is worth fighting for intrinsically.

      Culture is also a refertial system which estblishes the belogning of an individual

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  9. Mar 2024

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