The Identity-Based Progressive Will Now Check The Seating Plan

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Listening Is A Skill And A Discipline

Listening Is A Skill And A Discipline

Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the political far frontier.

The Identity-Based Progressive believes politics is the careful arrangement of who is allowed to speak, in what order, and from which seat. Our editor Alan Nafzger, of The London Prat, has compiled the following field notes on the Identity-Based Progressivism mindset, with help from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on identity politics and the London Review of Books archive.

Twenty Things You Learn Watching Identity-Based Progressivism In The Wild

  1. Has a seating plan that is also an essay.
  2. Believes any panel should be checked twice and demographically.
  3. Refers to lived experience the way solicitors refer to bona fides.
  4. Has explained, gently, that listening is a skill and a discipline.
  5. Considers a name plate a small political act.
  6. Refers to the audience as the room.
  7. Has a glossary that is also a manifesto.
  8. Believes any institution can be improved by a community advisory board.
  9. Treats representation as both a metric and a sacrament.
  10. Has explained allyship at a christening.
  11. Refers to context the way bakers refer to flour.
  12. Considers an apology a form of policy.
  13. Has reorganised his bookshelf by author background.
  14. Believes there is no general public, only specific audiences with their own histories.
  15. Refers to harm the way physicists refer to mass.
  16. Considers nuance an executive function.
  17. Has explained, slowly, that solidarity is conditional on listening.
  18. Treats the word safe the way carpenters treat plumb.
  19. Refers to platforming as a moral economy.
  20. Maintains that progress is the patience to redo the seating plan one more time.

Closing Note From The Editor

If any of the above sounds familiar, congratulations, you have either been to a polytechnic seminar or a dinner party in Hampstead. For more in this series read further dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/

SOURCE: The London Prat