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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 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Not talking abt some1s feelings being hurt coz some1 else doesn't get their pronouns right/share their religion/approve their sexuality.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      If we care abt ppl's feelings being hurt by someone else's ideas, we'd have to be consistent about this. This is impossible in practice.

      1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      It'd look like this: You hurt me by refusing to use my preferred pronouns. You hurt me by refusing to comply with my preferred gender roles

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      We couldn't get anywhere because no-one would ever be able to say anything or be themselves or live their lives.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      And, in reality, ppl who argue that they should be protected from offense, don't argue that everyone should. Just ppl who think like them.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      So, in reality, the groups who have greatest cultural capital get the right to have their feelings protected & everyone else can GTFO.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      For a long time it was religion which had the right not to be offended & in many places it still is. For certain religions anyway.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
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      Now in some places, its ppl with marginalised identities who have the right not to be offended & many are very offended by this.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
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      Protecting everyone's feelings can't work, protecting some ppl's feelings can only work for some ppl. There is another option & we knew this

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Not protecting anyone's feelings works to large extent for everyone coz we value right to free expression more than protection from offence

      2 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017

      I value right to be non-religious more than right not to be offended by religious ideas. So I must defend the same right for religious ppl.

      2:30 PM - 9 Jan 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Because I wouldn't want religious ppl to claim both as rights - to be religious & not to be offended by the ideas of the non-religious.

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If ur demanding the right to express &live by your own views *and* the right never to be offended by ppl expressing &living by opposing ones

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          ...you are not liberal. If you know this &think its a good thing, at least ur honest. If ur still claiming to be liberal, fucking get a grip

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          And this is how I end up spending a day defending Morris dancers (FFS!) right 2 keep wearing their silly face paint as they have for 500 yrs

          2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          And religious ppls right to talk bollocks, & the far-right & left to advocate illiberalism & radfems right to be wrong abt almost everything

          0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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