Judith Butler | The New Conversation with Dr. Dwight A. McBride | S2 Ep 1

In the first episode of our new season of The New Conversation, President McBride talks to philosopher Judith Butler about New York, Dave Chappelle, and political activism.
Judith Butler is an academic and philosopher who is widely known for groundbreaking theories on gender, ethics, and political philosophy. They are the author of Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, Excitable Speech, and Undoing Gender, among other publications. Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley and Presidential Visiting Scholar of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.
In this series, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, President of The New School, converses with scholars, artists, activists, and a wide range of notable individuals to share their work, their experiences, and their views on a whole host of issues.
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[@amandawilliams4630]

I like the idea of slowing down the conversation and including different perspectives. Kathleen Stock would be a great guest imo.

[@melchoraslez1689]

Great conversation! Judith Butler was one of a few academics that I thought I dislike and that I hesitated to read (mostly because of misinformation and my own ignorance) but now end up really admiring her work

[@alston1951]

Thanks for your commentary especially about Dave Chapelle

[@ebflegg]

Yes, Dave Chapelle meant ‘sex’ not ‘gender’ when he said ‘gender is a fact’. However, that’s symptomatic of the confusion that gender identity ideology has itself caused, through its attempt to erase the word sex in law and public discourse and replace it with gender.
Otherwise, Chapelle was of course right. We are mammals and we are a sexually dimorphic species. If you attend the New School you might get muddled about that, but if you were a farmer and couldn’t correctly observe the sex of your animals, you’d soon make a right mess of things and have unwanted biological reproduction and chaos all over. Gender identity ideology is of course a very urban notion and indicative of our growing estrangement from the natural world.
Perhaps the New School would like to host a debate between Judith Butler and Helen Joyce? That would be intellectually invigorating. And maybe offer a home to an ‘endangered academic’ like the feminist philosopher Kathleen Stock OBE, hounded out of her professorship by masked TRA protesters with pink and blue flares, and inspired by gender identity ideology to think that reasonable people are fascists.

[@americanalah]

Changing the definition of words to fit an agenda. Cool!

[@aclark903]

Interesting that no one seems able to answer you. Merry Christmas Erica.