Seminar prompt: Sexual and Racial Discrimination

It seems wrong to invoke some categories in passing judgements but not others. Which might they be?

‘Race’
Gender
Sex
Species
Old people

What is it about such categories which makes it wrong to make judgments about them?

Is it just some judgements that are not to be made about them? Which types of judgment?

• ‘Sexual harassment’
• ‘Rape’

How are these best understood?

 


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