Only addressing human rights abuses perpretated by your own culture might feel noble but is actually self-indulgent, narcissistic masochism
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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
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Replying to @egonotis
In this context, I was talking abt western liberals only caring abt Muslim women being harmed by white non-Muslim westerners.
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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
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Replying to @egonotis
Have a look at the conversation. Talking abt ppl who defend Islam, deny problems, throw liberal Muslims under the bus.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Make everything abt how evil the west is. The masochistic self-hating far left.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I understand that. I was offering plausible partial explanations as to how they might have ended up this way
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Replying to @egonotis
I think they end up this way due to the identitarian, academic leftist ideas of cultural relativity, privileged & oppressed groups
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Replying to @HPluckrose
what is the appeal of these ideas? How do they serve them and their objectives?
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Replying to @egonotis
The academic shift towards postmodernism & the way this seeped into the Left is quite complicated for Tweets.
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.@dwpandme I wrote a bit abt how postmodernism in feminism here: http://helensatheistblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/why-i-no-longer-identify-as-feminist.html … More info in intro of this: http://helenpluckrose.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=1 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Best accessible summary of shift in academic leftism I found is in Peter Boghossian's Manual for Creating Atheists.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I especially appreciated: "Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue"
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