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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 24

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Michael A. Lowry

    Accusing the three of us of "punching down" for targeting unevidenced and unethical SocJus orthodoxy in scholarship into race, gender and sexuality feels a bit like when LGBT get accused of bullying the Catholic Church by criticising or mocking it.https://twitter.com/mlowry/status/1055070847386443777 …

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    Michael A. Lowry @mlowry
    Insofar as the ‘grievance studies’ fields wield outsize influence by cultivating & exploiting an undeserved aura of scientific rigor & respectability, these fields deserve special scrutiny. This is not punching down. It’s calling out bullshit.
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      2. zemblan‏ @zemblan2 Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's more like shooting fish in a barrel than punching down.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 24
        Replying to @zemblan2

        You'd think so but the contortions to deny there is a problem of any kind are astounding.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose @zemblan2

        Yeah, I can't count the amount of times I've seen people appeal to academic scholarship to defend absolutely ridiculous narratives coming out of these fields. And now when that's exposed specifically, people claim it's "punching down." Come on. Give me a break.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      5. flabberghosted(Am I an NPC?)‏ @observeaddict Oct 24
        Replying to @Intrinsic29 @HPluckrose @zemblan2

        You’d think they’d want high standards and the prestige that comes with higher learning...er...wait...check that, judging by their concepts, maybe weakness is the point

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      1. Hamstring‏ @bc_nbc Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Punching down implies the people in these fields of study are powerless, maligned, or inferior. Hahaha!

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      2. Michael A. Lowry‏ @mlowry Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I find it a bit disappointing to hear the @verybadwizards present these as though they were valid criticisms: @peez: “It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.” @tamler: “If you don’t think [this field] has value, then why have you spent the last five years obsessing over it?”

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      3. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Oct 24
        Replying to @mlowry @HPluckrose and

        Really? Uggh. That’s a bummer. I really like those guys. Not anti-intersectional but honest & real truth searchers usually. Do they say anything nice about Helen & James?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Michael A. Lowry‏ @mlowry Oct 24
        Replying to @sisboombahbah @HPluckrose and

        I like them too. To be fair to them, it’s clear that they tried to be balanced — just not very hard. I get the impression that this is one of several topics about which they have difficulty being impartial. @paulbloomatyale added welcome balance to the conversation.

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      5. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah Oct 24
        Replying to @mlowry @HPluckrose and

        I think they had James on briefly after the conceptual penis.

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      6. Michael A. Lowry‏ @mlowry Oct 24
        Replying to @sisboombahbah @HPluckrose and

        Yep. https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/tags/conceptual%20penis%20hoax …

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      2. Elias Acevedo‏ @Lucidly_Elias Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If there was a subset of right-wing academic studies espousing anti-science rhetoric and publishing young earth/creationist theories as supposedly rigorous science, which then went on to influence public discourse and broader culture, would they still regard expose as bad faith?

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      3. Pirkka Jokela‏ @pijokela Oct 25
        Replying to @Lucidly_Elias @HPluckrose

        There has been a concerted effort to push creationism and intelligent design as a scientific alternative to evolution. I wonder how many would rally to defend these as "alternative ways of knowing"?

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      1. Misha Saul‏ @misha_saul Oct 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Helen, don't listen to the naysayers, you are doing god's work!

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      1. Morris Dancer‏ @MorrisF1 Oct 25
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        'Punching down' is such a bloody weird term. As if being abhorrent* is acceptable if the victims are the 'evil oppressors'. *Obviously I don't think your grievance studies hoax was abhorrent. It was fantastic, timely, and much needed.

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      1. josh butler  💐 🦋 ☠️ 👑 🐉 🍍 🖇 🌈 🦔 🌷 🌍 🐈 ⚓️‏ @joshibee Oct 24
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You’re White. You can only punch down...

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