Science thrives with doubts and diversity. And ends with apodictic calls
to stop discussions.
Sorry to say, Florian: your statement sounds to me like an attempt to
block a very much needed debate. The comparison with intelligent design
is itself a propagandistic trope. Even being "provax", I'd stilll feel
much safer in a scientific environment that allows for doubts and
discussions.
Best
Stefan
Am 20.01.2022 um 16:54 schrieb Florian Cramer:
I feel there exists a distinct and problematic form of boundary
policing from what identifies as 'the left' today, resulting inany
critique of lockdowns and provax sentiment starting from left-wing
values being too easily dismissed as 'right-wing.' A better critique
of class in relation to all this is especially sorely missing. Hence
my retort of 'knee-jerk.'
The word "provax" itself is a propaganda framing, similar to framing
evolution as 'just a theory' next to 'intelligent design', and a
complete giveaway of your ideology; just as your list of research
questions was, in its sum, rhetorical.
Any critical discussion ends here.
-F
Cheers, Ingrid.
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*From:* Ana Teixeira Pinto
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*To:* Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <i.m.ho...@uu.nl <mailto:i.m.ho...@uu.nl>>
*Cc:* nettim...@kein.org <mailto:nettim...@kein.org>
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*Subject:* Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic
politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques
I would not call Florian's response a knee-jerk reaction, and also
find it difficult to sketch out an anti-racist position without
addressing vaccine equity, or the adjacency of anti-vaccine rhetoric
to narratives of reverse colonialism entailing the subjugation of
white people; not to mention their rabid antisemitism. I would not
foreclose a left-wing critique of government policy but would agree
with Florian that its dangerous to couch far-right sentiment in left
wing discourse.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:06 PM Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)
<i.m.ho...@uu.nl <mailto:i.m.ho...@uu.nl>> wrote:
Your knee-jerk response is an excellent example of elitist and
false-oppositional ‘left’ thinking that has completely fallen
for the government and big-pharma propaganda, and forgets to
think critically about power structures, knowing very well that
right-wing and left-wing, while also entertaining huge
differences, are not pure opposites. Baudet would be proud of
you; he can rake in the spoils.____
____
Cheers, Ingrid.____
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*From:*Florian Cramer <flrnc...@gmail.com
<mailto:flrnc...@gmail.com>>
*Sent:* Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:00
*To:* Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <i.m.ho...@uu.nl
<mailto:i.m.ho...@uu.nl>>
*Cc:* nettim...@kein.org <mailto:nettim...@kein.org>
*Subject:* Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic
politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques____
__ __
- Government propaganda and censorship around lockdown and
vaccination____
[...] ____
- The role of mass and social media in anti- or pro-lockdown
or vaccine propaganda, political polarization and forms of
media virality (eg. via covid-19 memes)____
[...] ____
- Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist
appeal to bodily autonomy____
[...] ____
- Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation,
moral shaming and lateral citizen surveillance____
[...]____
- Teleological and theological narratives of science as
salvation (eg. via vaccinations)____
__ __
All beautiful examples of a "Querfront" discourse where extreme
right positions are packaged in left-wing rhetoric. Not a
single point, however, on minorities and vulnerable people and
communities endangered by anti-vaccer egoism, and neo-Darwinist
politics - for example in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, of
"herd immunity" through survival of the fittest.____
__ __
You should invite Dutch experts Willem Engel and Thierry Baudet
as keynote speakers.____
__ __
-F____
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