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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 27 Oct 2016

    Only addressing human rights abuses perpretated by your own culture might feel noble but is actually self-indulgent, narcissistic masochism

    6:16 AM - 27 Oct 2016 from Islington, London
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    7 replies 18 retweets 51 likes
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Cultural relativity & commitment to human rights, equality &freedom are incompatible whether you're using it to demonise or defend a culture

        2 replies 3 retweets 11 likes
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Cultural relativism and social justice are incompatible.No social justice when different elements of society are held to different standards

        3 replies 37 retweets 66 likes
      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Its incoherent. Just been speaking to someone deeply concerned about Muslim women's wellbeing & motivated to deny the main threat to it.

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        People say I just talk too much to SocJus extremists & society as a whole is more balanced. No. Look. Compare figures.pic.twitter.com/4jNN16BI1q

        1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If plan 2 reduce honour violence had received 1/5th of sigs 1 to criminalise worryingly vague 'misogyny' had, parliament wld have to respond

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It is tempting to claim western feminists only care abt selves to 'shame' them into supporting Muslim feminists working on these issues 1/2

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        but this would be untrue & miss the actual problem which is not a lack of care but inconsistent principles and misdirected support. 2/2

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      9. End of conversation
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      2. Gideon Moss‏ @egonotis 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        how are you defining "your own culture"? What do you mean by "addressing"? We concern ourselves mostly w what we can influence

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @egonotis

        In this context, I was talking abt western liberals only caring abt Muslim women being harmed by white non-Muslim westerners.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Gideon Moss‏ @egonotis 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        perhaps this kind of harm is all they feel they have a chance of preventing thru influencing perceptions in their own society

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @egonotis

        Have a look at the conversation. Talking abt ppl who defend Islam, deny problems, throw liberal Muslims under the bus.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Make everything abt how evil the west is. The masochistic self-hating far left.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Gideon Moss‏ @egonotis 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I understand that. I was offering plausible partial explanations as to how they might have ended up this way

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @egonotis

        I think they end up this way due to the identitarian, academic leftist ideas of cultural relativity, privileged & oppressed groups

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I don't think anyone gets to this stage via a reasonable route of acknolwedging all problems but focusing more on own group.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Ben Pobjie‏Verified account @benpobjie 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        ironically, those who only decry HR abuses from their own culture also decry focusing on disaster victims from their own culture

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @benpobjie

        I know less about this but that would be entirely consistent with the mentality I see!

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Ben Pobjie‏Verified account @benpobjie 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        it’s that “oh, four people died in a train crash, what about the FOUR HUNDRED dead in a Chinese earthquake, you racist!”

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @benpobjie

        Oh yes! I see that. The idea that our tendency to focus on smaller tragedies closer to home reveals racism & xenophobia.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Ben Pobjie‏Verified account @benpobjie 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        yes. Yet giving attention to tragedies elsewhere caused by some of the people who live there…not so popular

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Oct 2016
        Replying to @benpobjie

        Reason and consistent principles go out of the window when ideologues ideologue.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. End of conversation

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