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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017

    Am now being told that our manifesto is not accessible to working class people despite the working class people who have read & shared it.

    4:11 PM - 22 Aug 2017
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    • Dizzatron (((ɹoqǝɹʇs ɹ ɔ))) Knowledge Pursuer Cllr Daniel Dunne James Lindsay Nick Poeschek 👻 D I V A 👻 Arend-Jan Pomo Apostate
    6 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        When I asked what was not accessible (because I felt all terms were explained and the language was not generally academic) I was told...

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        ...that working class people don't talk about modernity, Enlightenment and postmodernism. Two main problems with this.

        3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        1) They do. The conversation about modern values and PoMo nonsense spans all classes. 2) Those things are essential to the piece.

        2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        There are many people of all classes who don't care about these ideas & therefore can read other things. Writing abt them is not classist.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
      6. Tony H #ScrewEU‏ @The_Morningstar 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I've skimmed over about the first third and broadly agree with what you say. I'm working class, no college degree, and left school at 16...

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @The_Morningstar

        It's neither hard to understand nor irrelevant to working class people, is it?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Tony H #ScrewEU‏ @The_Morningstar 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's not hard to understand. It is relevant to the working class, because it's normally the middle class filling the ranks of the pre and

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Tony H #ScrewEU‏ @The_Morningstar 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @The_Morningstar @HPluckrose

        post modernists with the post modernist left treating us as too stupid to understand, and the pre modernist right appealing to our natural

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Timber Ninja‏ @timberninj 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Check your literacy privilege?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 23 Aug 2017
        Replying to @timberninj @ChiltonR

        Apparently, its not that. It's that working class people don't think in 'isms.' Bollocks.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. [Ravi] {{{Oli}}}‏ @SatyreContraire 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SatyreContraire @HPluckrose

        Sorry for the rudeness but I have read some of Foucault and other post-modernist's work, thankfully without translation, and if you want to

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      3. [Ravi] {{{Oli}}}‏ @SatyreContraire 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SatyreContraire @HPluckrose

        Scold writers for an obsessively opaque and elitist style of writing and discourse, it's not you.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SatyreContraire @OlivierLambert

        :)

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      1. Cllr Daniel Dunne‏ @danieldunne 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Bigotry of low expectations, init?

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      1. Ross Powell‏ @rossmpowell 22 Aug 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Hi. Where can I read it?

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