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

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 2

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Marcella Evaristi

      👍 A coherent argument can be made when a cultural subgroup is still affected by historical exploitation although excoriating the descendants of the exploiters is still not justified & fair reparations might be impossible to measure. For gender? No. Our ancestors were both sexes.https://twitter.com/MSEvaristi/status/1002935363701301253 …

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      Marcella Evaristi @MSEvaristi
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      When I was young I bought the 'redressing the balance of history' line. I no longer do. HP is absolutely right on this.
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 2

      There is a real tendency to identify with those ancestors who were oppressed. I can say one of mine was a 14-yr-old girl, bound into service to a rich & powerful man who raped her & then dumped her in a foreign country when pregnant. But another one is the man who did that.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jun 2

      I deserve neither the sympathy that girl merits nor the condemnation the man does. We should remember history and learn moral lessons from it. I think we largely have but can continue to make moral progress. Sins of the fathers is a terrible way of determining judgement.

      9:01 AM - 2 Jun 2018
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        1. Morris Dancer‏ @MorrisF1 Jun 2
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          It's utterly insane. And it's mad the other way too. I didn't actually fight in WWII, and shouldn't get credit for the fact my grandparents did.

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        1. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jun 3
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          We cannot remake the past, but we can build a better future.

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        1. Tom Quinn‏ @doublespeak152 Jun 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Agree wholeheartedly. But too generous in your interpretation of their worldview. It's not even direct genealogy that's used to dole out greivance/shame. It's much more broad. In the US, something like half the white pop descended from post civil war immigrants. Doesn't matter

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        1. Michael N‏ @MichaelN1756 Jun 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Amen.

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        1. James Burnett‏ @james_burnett_ Jun 2
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          My male ancestors in the 18th century probably worked in horrendous conditions in coal mines. Reparations please.

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