double-bind

April 26, 2010, 6: 47 pm leo marvin says: theobromophile: I find the double-bind that leftists Tea Partiers would inflict on Tea Partiers liberals to be ironic: if we are wealthy and educated, then we are elites who are seeking to preserve our status; if we are working-class, then we are uneducated rubes communists who hate people who have more than us.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Racism and The Tea Partiers 2010

In terms of women of color in particular, I agree with the article about the double-bind, especially due to drug laws with harsh sentences for nonviolent crimes, but I think there is more to it.

“Meet the predators” « Planning the Day 2009

Had you asked the question in the form, "If the answer is yes, then must we make this inquiry honestly, or dishonestly?" then you would have had the sophistic double-bind you need to render the second answer the absolute moral duty you mean it to be -- "We must ask it honestly."

On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

I find the double-bind that leftists would inflict on Tea Partiers to be ironic: if we are wealthy and educated, then we are elites who are seeking to preserve our status; if we are working-class, then we are uneducated rubes who hate people who have more than us.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Racism and The Tea Partiers 2010

Like a deconstruction of the revenge tragedy form itself though, Hamlet gives us a tragic hero for whom awareness of his role takes it to a new level, in the tortura of affect, the double-bind of monstra attached to his own life/death, "To be or not to be" and all that.

Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Which is to say, in order to set your sophistic double-bind up properly, you would need to use "must" in the question rather than "ought to" since the latter, like "should," is only restrictive rather than prescriptive, the flip-side of the permissive "may".

Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

If morality is telling Hamlet that he must avenge his father, even if it means hurting his mother, but that he must not hurt his mother, even if it means not avenging his father, his own affect, it seems to me, has constructed a double-bind that inverts this.

Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Which is to say, in order to set your sophistic double-bind up properly, you would need to use "must" in the question rather than "ought to" since the latter, like "should," is only restrictive rather than prescriptive, the flip-side of the permissive "may".

On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

Had you asked the question in the form, "If the answer is yes, then must we make this inquiry honestly, or dishonestly?" then you would have had the sophistic double-bind you need to render the second answer the absolute moral duty you mean it to be -- "We must ask it honestly."

Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

When the tension becomes a paralysing double-bind, all you can do is kill of that inner Ziggy, literally or symbolically.

Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009