No, we're not. We learn more every year. When we don't know things, we can say straightforwardly that we don't know.https://twitter.com/willbradley/status/880996438364135427 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Can also accept that all knowledge is provisional. Getting postmodern about it never makes things better.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Dismissing feminism and intersectionality (I.e. listening to people different from you) is a bridge too far too, though.
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Replying to @indyholland @HPluckrose
I mean I'm a straight white cisgendered American male in tech. I get it. I also know that people like me talk OVER others too much.
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Then don't. Accept intellectual diversity & welcome a range of opinions, not just interesectional ones.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @indyholland
Sure, that sounds good in theory, but in practice, on Twitter, this logic is used to try and inject Actual White Supremacy into a debate.
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I come from Kansas, my family is religious, I get it, there are many good ideas. But non-intersectional often means blissfully ignorant.
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What was blissfully ignorant abt my arg for universal liberalism over cultural relativity, science denial, rudeness &disempowerment of women
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You're just setting up a false dichotomy where intersectionality is listening to people & everything else is white supremacy.
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When, in fact, liberalism also recommends listening to ppl & opposes white supremacy. Don't have to go down the intersectional route.
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