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“When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society,” Judith Butler wrote recently, “progressive politics in general is held responsible for every social ill.” Authoritarians are empowered to oppress vulnerable people in the name of “the nation, the natural order, the family, society or civilization itself”.

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In late 2017, I read about an article about an academic with the startling headline, “Judith Butler discusses being burned in an effigy at Brazil protest”. It was my first introduction to the strength of feeling that the field of gender studies — and Butler — would soon come to…