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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 Oct 14

      About to listen to people arguing about decolonising society. I shall keep you all posted.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14

      Ooh, @buffsoldier_96 will be speaking. (He is quite buff, actually)

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14

      Lighting is weird. Now talking about "unlearning western knowledge."pic.twitter.com/mon96imih5

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14

          .@buffsoldier_96 worries that this conversation often devolves into declarations of ownership of history. "Black history is western history"

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14

          Two audience members are shouting at each other. One asserting there is no need for her to feel white guilt because she has never oppressed anyone. The other saying "I'm not asking you to feel guilty. I'm asking you to stop doing it." "Hmmm.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14

          Interesting. The woman saying 'stop doing it" says she speaks English and is Christian because of colonialism. This is true but I am interested in how the Christianity works. She said "I am Christian" suggesting she is still a believer. This must cause cognitive dissonance.

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        2. Cathode X-Ray‏ @cathode_ray8 Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Pssst. Part of what they call 'western knowledge' is capitalism.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
          Replying to @cathode_ray8

          There is a Marxist postcolonialism and they are the strongest critics of postmodern postcolonialism. The latter are the ones who go on about western knowledge.

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        4. Cathode X-Ray‏ @cathode_ray8 Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I'm not seeing any of these distinctions. When people start out talking about how much they hate capitalism, they inevitably end up talking about privilege, sexism, etc., and when they start out talking about privilege, they inevitably argue for socialism.

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        5. Cathode X-Ray‏ @cathode_ray8 Oct 14
          Replying to @cathode_ray8 @HPluckrose

          And maybe this is partly what made your hoax so successful, that in writing through any manner of social justice or identitarian lens, one need only abstract and map one kind of privilege onto another (which is what people mean by 'cultural marxism') in order to do scholarship.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 14
          Replying to @cathode_ray8

          That just isn't how it works tho. I can't explain it on Twitter but it isn't. Different epistemologies. Different intellectual history.

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        7. Cathode X-Ray‏ @cathode_ray8 Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          And all I am saying is that they don't know and they don't care. The mainstream left has become an identitarian/radical conglomerate pretending to be liberals. I'm not arguing the philosophy, I'm talking about their manifestations.

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        2. Emmanuel Goldstein‏ @ImanolSteingelt Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I mean, whoever so wishes to put themselves at a disadvantage like that is welcome to do so, although those that depend on them may have something to say about it

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        4. Emmanuel Goldstein‏ @ImanolSteingelt Oct 14
          Replying to @Frizzysist @HPluckrose

          Reread my tweet shitlord, they're allowed to do that I just wonder whether their loved ones might not be upset at the funeral

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        5. Spookiest Tweetist  👻‏ @Frizzysist Oct 14
          Replying to @ImanolSteingelt @HPluckrose

          Uh, like, wow??? Reading is a social construct and your insistence on being literate is embedded within western (racist) 'education' and values. I refuse to partake and shall ooga booga henceforth.

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        6. Emmanuel Goldstein‏ @ImanolSteingelt Oct 14
          Replying to @Frizzysist @HPluckrose

          Promises, promises...

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        7. Spookiest Tweetist  👻‏ @Frizzysist Oct 14
          Replying to @ImanolSteingelt @HPluckrose

          [nog noises]

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        1. Steven DiMattei‏ @stevendimattei Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          "Unlearning Western Knowledge" ???? Errr.... that is the problem! We live in a culture that has no recognition of their own intellectual history, own history in general, own literary, philosophical, and religious traditions, art, music, etc.

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        1. Bubba Raskin‏ @bubbaraskin Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Proper lighting is apparently some of that western knowledge they decided to unlearn.

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        1. Sam Walters‏ @nutmegmagi Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          “Boko Haram” translates literally as “western learning (books) is forbidden.” Who knew they were such a woke organization?

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        1. Ted‏ @maartented Oct 14
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          There you go!!pic.twitter.com/CJoo2vnSFj

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        1. Chibi Thomas Jefferson's Ghost‏ @PixyMisa Oct 14
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          When someone talks about "unlearning western knowledge" I take them at their word and turn off the lights.

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