Helen Pluckrose

@HPluckrose

Editor Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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Joined August 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Nov 2018

    The filmmaker, , who has been following us around for over a year now has made a playlist of videos in the best order for making sense of what we have been doing & why.

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  2. 4 minutes ago
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  3. 10 minutes ago

    "Face the light" said. "Angle the phone downwards" said. That's all very well but you still have to know what to do with your face.

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  4. 15 minutes ago

    I have been attempting selfies because I keep using the same photo for everything. I'm not very good at them.

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  5. 18 minutes ago

    I think we have the same glare too. XD

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  6. 19 minutes ago

    Someone on here said we have the same smile generally.

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  7. 20 minutes ago

    My mother told me that I have his "I'm trying to be patient and friendly but would really like to be on my own" smile, yesterday. This made me happy.

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  8. 29 minutes ago

    I'm a lot more confident about public speaking now but speaking about my father at his funeral... He hated public speaking even more than I do & yet gave a very moving speech at my wedding so I must do him proud. Understated, dry humour is what he'd appreciate. I can do that.

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  9. 2 hours ago

    It is no more acceptable to tell me I really am a feminist because I believe in gender equality (and certainly not to make me write statements confirming this to get a job) than it is to tell me I am really a Christian because I believe in helping the poor & sick.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    We really do need to extend the concept of secularism to political ideologies and movements as James argues at the end here:

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  11. 3 hours ago

    Someone could hold all the nicest values about brotherhood & caring for the vulnerable found in Islam but actually be a Christian or a Hindu or an atheist. Similarly, one can believe in gender equality but be a humanist or a liberal or an egalitarian rather than a feminist.

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  12. 3 hours ago

    It is also OK to be critical of either of those ideologies and argue that they are not defined by their simple & positive slogans. But even if they were, that doesn't mean they own those positive attributes and people can only hold them by identifying with the ideologies.

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  13. 3 hours ago

    You don't have to identify as a feminist if you believe in gender equality any more than you have to identify as a Muslim if you believe in peace. Even if you think those slogans are true statements about the ideologies/movements, there's also more to them in theory & practice

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  15. 4 hours ago

    It's true that many feminists do this. However, so do the majority of non-feminists. Feminism certainly doesn't own the drive for political, economic & social equality. 1/2

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  16. 12 hours ago

    I'm not sure "taking on the role of public intellectuals" even makes sense. Intellectuals write & say stuff. If enough of the "public" are interested in the stuff they write & say, suddenly they are *public* intellectuals. The only way not to be one is to stop saying anything.

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  17. 21 hours ago

    And now is talking gloomily in Lord of the Ring references which I cannot follow. This seldom bodes well. Come back, Mr Frodo!

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  18. 21 hours ago

    I seem to have lost the ability to write powerful & persuasive sentences just when I need it most. I am warning you, brain, either you start co-operating with me or I will be forced to submerge you in wine until you see sense.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    If 100 people lived in Britain...

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