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    It is not the case that The traditional liberal politics of equal respect is inadequate for accommodating cultural difference.

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    • 1.The politics of equal respect insists on uniform application of rights-defining rules without exception.
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    • 2.The politics of equal respect is suspicious of collective goals.
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    • 3.Cultural survival and integrity are collective goods that require differential treatment, not uniform rules.
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    • 1.Charles Taylor's 'politics of recognition' shows that misrecognition—not mere unequal treatment—is a distinct harm that undermines cultural identity.
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    • 2.Uniform liberal neutrality presupposes a culturally unencumbered self, which Sandel and MacIntyre demonstrate is empirically and metaphysically false.
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    • 3.If cultural membership constitutes the self, then identical formal rights yield substantively unequal conditions for different cultural groups.
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    • 1.Will Kymlicka demonstrates that minority cultures lack the 'societal culture' scaffolding that majority cultures receive as an invisible public subsidy.
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    • 2.A framework that structurally advantages one group while claiming neutrality is not genuinely neutral but covertly assimilationist.
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