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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Keith Kahn-Harris

Inspired by the wonderful coinage 'misogynoir', which I heard for the first time the other day when Ash Sarkar used it to describe the kind of abuse directed at black women like Abbott, I have come up with the word 'dismissemitism'.

You're welcome.

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Apr 30, 2023·edited Apr 30, 2023

I enjoyed this and found it helpful . However, I wonder if you are taking a pre "linguistic turn " position. You seem to be thinking in terms of a thing, and a word to attach to the thing. "Do you see the unnamed thing that I see? What would you call it?". From a linguistic turn point of view, it may be more accurate to think of things as coming into being only as a result of language/being named. They don't exist prior to it in some non linguistic sphere where, for example, you "see" things as you imply. (Which isn't to say there's no material reality).

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Would 'disrespect' cover it?

Great read --thanks. And I hadn't come across These Animal Men before so thanks for that video.

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