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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 17

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Miriam Arghandiwal

      That is not entirely unreasonable reasoning? My uncle changed his name from "Arthur" to "Tony" when he moved to Italy because no-one could pronounce "Arthur" and he wanted something more Latinate & accessible to people he worked with.https://twitter.com/_Maro/status/1052272302237265922 …

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      Miriam Arghandiwal @_Maro
      Replying to @arianadelawari @SikhProf @dearabby
      So many brown people actually do this though. “What about __ as a name?” And they’ll respond with “no I don’t want them to have a hard time at school. I want a name that works for both cultures.”
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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

      Obviously changing names to avoid bullying is not a free choice and then it is the bullying that produces the moral problem. Names themselves should be neutral & parents should not feel pressured to name their kids as a signal of loyalty to cultural heritage or to their new home.

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        1. Jules Gutierrez‏ @DJJustJules Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Lol any parent who thinks they'll choose a name that somehow means their kid won't have a hard time at school is living in fairyland. A name is just one of *many* things that most kids will grab onto to have a dig at another kid. You might as well just choose the name you like.

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        2. Texture‏ @iamtexture Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It’s easier for children to mock a name than to look silly mispronouncing it. So children, being uncivilized as they are, will choose mockery.

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        1. Josh Green‏ @Josh12Green Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          There’s also the easy option of going by a “common name” in your daily life: I have a friend named Sunpreet, and she just goes by Sunny with nearly everyone outside of her family, or an institution with which it’s easier to go with her given name, such as school professors.

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        1. Richard McEvoy‏ @GodsBeagle Oct 18
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          A friend of mine is called Ramon in Spain and Desmond in the UK. He is a church pastor and being called something which sounds like "Demon" in Spanish doesn't quite work.

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        1. Wim van der Vlis‏ @WimvdVlis Oct 18
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Famous historian Peter fröhlich, after emigrating from Germany to the US, changed his name to Peter Gay. Guess his offspring may now regret

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        1. Colin‏ @Pragmataraxia Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          There's no way to avoid bullying, except by being the most violent psychopath. From the outside, it didn't look worth it.

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        1. David Whyte‏ @Soulstorm99 Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          This is nameist and disgusting. You horrify me, "Helen".

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        1. Steven Martin‏ @StevenLeeMartin Oct 17
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Without people quickly picking sides and screaming insults at each other.... This is actually an interesting discussion on assimilation vs losing heritage. Is assimilation a bad word now to be completely shunned? Why teach kids to speak English then?

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