Fair enough. I’m mostly familiar just with how certain academics talk about implicit bias, but if you tell me there are people on tumblr or whatever who think of it differently, I can’t speak to that—you may be right.
My focus is different to your focus. I make no claims about whether it is true or false to say that all white people are racist. This will depend on the definition of racist & rigorous research into it. I am talking about the rights of people to their own thoughts.
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This is now an entirely separate point from the argument I was advancing above, but I think I also am skeptical that people have “rights to their own thoughts,” at least on one disambiguation of this phrase. But I’m not sure you’re interest so I won’t push that line here.
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If you don't follow me & you don't read my stuff & you are working from a completely different angle to my ethical/cultural/political one, u will not know the context of my arguments which are rooted in universal liberalism & empiricism. I cannot cover this much ground in tweets
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I’m skeptical on grounds that classic liberals/empiricists can accept. WK Clifford (“The Ethics of Belief”) argues it’s always wrong to believe without sufficient evidence. This would seem to entail people don’t have a “right” to their own beliefs, when not backed by evidence.
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One can only assume Mr Clifford is no liberal
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I assume you’re being sarcastic, but it’s always hard to tell on Twitter.
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No. I’m serious. If freedom of conscience is not a liberal right it’s not liberalism. And further, it is not possible to be, let alone to think, without believing a great many things for which there is no evidence.
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I don’t think it’s at all plausible that liberalism requires the rejection of the epistemological view known as evidentialism, which is what you’re suggesting. Here is background on the view. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/#OriDeb …
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I don’t believe that liberalism forbids evidentialism or demands it. It has no necessary epistemology.
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And the counterproductiveness to anti-racist causes of telling people they are racist because of their skin colour.
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