In political arguments over identity, and specifically over whether or not features of one's identity matter--or should matter--to the political positions one holds or the arguments one makes for them, I have always tried to cling to objectivity and universality as the ideal. This is opposed to accepting the universally unavoidable facts of bias and subjectivity to the point of abandoning objectivity and universality even as the ideal, and falling into the balkanization of "identity politics".
But in this context, I've somehow not thought to put this in terms of Rawls' 'Veil of Ignorance' in order to argue that justice requires we put our personal identities to the side to answer questions about the just society.
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