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Claire Lehmann

lines on the record: 57
first: 2018-08-29
most recent: 2018-08-29
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“An interesting comparison, I would just imagine that there's fewer trans actors to choose from and the whole idea of being transgender is that you can experiment with your gender, you can be gender fluid or non-binary and you can being transgender is in itself a performance. It's a theatrical act, however being black is not a performance, it's not theatrical. So I think the performative nature of transgender is allow a woman like Scarlett Jahanson to play a transgender person. I have to say the messaging around transgender activism is very confusing and contradictory. I mean on the one hand we've got this discourse around gender fluidity and being non-binary. On the other hand women can't play. A transgender person, it doesn't make any logical sense to me.”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Where offence should probably not be taken, inflating perceived slights, over-exaggerating the potential harm that might be caused. So I think there's a lot of that going on in that particular instance.”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, that's a particularly ridiculous episode, and that's, I would say that's a good example of political correctness. You've got a tiny, tiny minority population that is transgender individuals. And among transgender individuals, only a small percentage of those are activists. It's the tiniest minority you can think of, but they have all of this political power because they're very noisy. And the idea that an actress cannot play someone who she isn't is ludicrous on its face. That's the job of an actor, to play someone that they are not, I mean, Scarlet Johansson will be playing some kind of Russian spy in her next film. Can she not play a Russian spy because she's not Russian? The example of her being pressured to step out of that role is a good example of how political correctness has sort of metastasized into seeking offense.”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The norms that prevent people from using race or gender as an insult, I don't think they're too tough. I think that they're perfectly reasonable.”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think having social norms that frown upon racism and sexism are very important and useful. But when we talk about political correctness, we're not really talking about social norms. We're talking about people being punished for asking questions and expressing doubt and expressing uncertainty. And so the norms are just overactive, they're hyperactive. norms where expressing a racial epithet and using race to insult someone there should be a taboo against that but i don't think that's what we're talking about when we're talking about political correctness we're talking about the tool that's used to stop people from having independent thought and asking questions about you know social phenomena and sort of questioning that some of the more simplistic narratives that get presented around issues of gender and race”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree with civility and if people define political correctness as being civil and being polite, then I'm on that side. I'm on the side of not being aggressively provocative and overly polemical with one's perceived political opponents. But I don't really think that's what political correctness is. I think political correctness is the restraint on inquiry. However, a lot of people define it as just being nice and being civil and respectful. And so if we were to just go on that definition, I'm in perfect agreement with being nice and being respectful.”
2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2018-08-29 · Conversations with Tyler · Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source