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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 5 Aug 2017

      Yes, its a problem when people only see one side of a problem & see it simplistically. Right good, left bad. Islam good, Christianity bad.

      1 reply 1 retweet 22 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But it's also a mistake to assume that people with a specific focus are doing that. Specialisation is efficient.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      We tend to focus most on problems we have experience and knowledge of. Doesn't require believing they're the only ones that exist.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Or even the biggest problems. Someone can devote their life to the right to die with dignity but know that climate change is a bigger deal.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But almost no-one makes the mistake of thinking they don't know this. That happens when there is assumed to be a 'side' to take.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Hence whataboutism. If you criticise Islam, must think Christianity is great. If you criticise left, you must think no problem with right.

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      But not all criticism of imbalance is whataboutism, obviously. Some people really do see a societal problem as one-sided.

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

      But I get annoyed when people tell me what I must focus on. I focus on things I understand best and which interest me.

      2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I focus on things I think many well-intentioned people are misunderstanding & make arguments for how they should be understood.

      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017

      I study religion & gender ideologies. I find them interesting. I find leftist wrongness about them more interesting than rightist wrongness.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Mostly coz I'm sympathetic to traditionally left-liberal aims. I want religious freedom upheld but horrible religious ideas to be criticised

          1 reply 5 retweets 21 likes
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I want legal equality on the grounds of gender and for restrictive gender roles to be criticised & rejection of them normalised.

          2 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It is very easy to counter rightist extremes who want one religion held sacred & others or non-religion condemned.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Also easy to show the problem with extreme social conservatives who would enforce 'traditional' gender roles by law or harsh social pressure

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Much more complicated when leftists do this or equivalent because their rationale is based on values I share but their approach is all wrong

          2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          This requires much more unpicking & pointing out of failures of core liberal principles & counterproductive methods & unwanted consequences

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Very frustrating when people see criticism of Right as a sign of commitment to Left but trying to fix Left as secret support for Right.

          2 replies 11 retweets 35 likes
        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Although, I do have more in common with liberal centre-rightists than illiberal far-leftists & think they're best hope for fixing far-right.

          2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
        10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          In my ideal world, we would have a reasonable centre-left government kept honest & balanced by reasonable centre-right input. #Idealist

          3 replies 2 retweets 13 likes
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