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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 27 Apr 2017

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted

      It is scary because they're clearly well-intentioned & sincere & so impervious to any other argument that they can't even take it in. https://twitter.com/MMads/status/857715999667359749 …

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Apr 2017

      The words bounce off them. Me: Responding to bad ideas w/ good ones is best way to defeat them. Them: How can you not see the ideas are bad?

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        2. Simon‏ @complexsimon 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Plus, who gets to decide and moralise what ideas are good and bad.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @complexsimon

          We agree that fascism is bad. The difference is not ethical disagreement & that's what I'm trying to get them to see.

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        4. Simon‏ @complexsimon 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I'm with your sentiment but not your semantic. ;-)

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @complexsimon

          Huh?

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        6. Simon‏ @complexsimon 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          The sentiment. That one should be shown better ideas. The semantic. “We agree that” insert thought/ideology/idea here is “bad”.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @complexsimon

          That's not a semantic. I am addressing people with whom I am in agreement ethically.

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        8. Simon‏ @complexsimon 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Even with those that one agrees with ethically, one has to be careful of the "we agree" mantra. Lest the mind be closed to newer and better.

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Apr 2017
          Replying to @complexsimon

          Don't make it a mantra. Its just what you say when you want someone to know you agree with them. Don't say it to ppl you don't agree with.

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        2. MJ fan account 1984‏ @fronxer 27 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          There are also those theories on how language itself can cause harm. So a better paraphrase might be: "How can you not see the harm?"

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Apr 2017
          Replying to @fronxer

          That's a completely different point. Language itself does harm. You don't understand why racism etc is bad.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @fronxer

          Ppl say both to me but the first we can talk abt coz its an idea we differ on. The second is a fundamental misunderstanding of my views

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        1. KMKUGULET‏ @KMKUGULET 27 Apr 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          What does that guy do in the university? What capacity?

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