If you want 2 do actual social justice work you hv 2, at a bare minimum, be able 2 communicate w ppl. Writing completely incomprehensible
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Replying to @IonaItalia @scottie1479
nonsense in obscure journals will help no1. Arguments in favour of sthing that are inchoate, obscure, mendacious or patently absurd are
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Replying to @IonaItalia
Agreed. I see people jumping on both sides most of whom, I very much doubt, have even the slightest grasp of what the actual issue is.
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Replying to @scottie1479 @IonaItalia
You showed me the problem or part of it, but I can't image trying to jump in and taking a stance in all this. Many do.
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Replying to @scottie1479
They've already decided these guys are the bad guys & are there4 trying 2 find a way 2 make what they did out 2b wrong. It's silly.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @scottie1479
Gd quote from Sokal himself, expressing why obscurantism doesn't help achieve social justice (h/t
@HPluckrose)pic.twitter.com/1N15PH7kp6
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& 2 all those saying this isn't important: just imagine 4 a moment what a clear, coherent, rational academic leftist movement cd do. (Tip:
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remember the Enlightenment.)
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
And none of this (Helen's bit) is part of the discussion I see.
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It's always been part of James Lindsay & Peter Boghossian's writing tho. Central to it, in fact.
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