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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 20 Sep 2017

      It's important to take responsibility for the things we say but we do also need to take responsibility for our perceptions of what others do

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      We can't ask others to apologise for our perceptions of the meaning of their words when they know full well what they actually meant.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      I don't accept 'death of the author' in relation to general conversation. The speaker is the only authority on their own meaning.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      We can have different opinions on whether an intended meaning is, eg racist, but not what the intended meaning was.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      eg, My neighbour in the 90s: I'm not racist but I don't want Pakis next door. Me: That is racist tho. Her: No, it's not.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      Here, we both accept her meaning is that she doesn't want to live next door to Pakistanis but we disagree on whether that's racist. (FFS)

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      If it was: I don't want ppl who play loud rap music late at night next door. That's code for 'no black people'. No, it isn't! Yes, it is.

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      Then the second person has changed the first's meaning & if 1st clarifies she's not making a racist assumption, she's the authority on that.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      This is one of those things which should be obvious but seems not to be to very many people.

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    10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      Of course, this is due to the belief in an unconscious bias we all have. 'You can't see it yourself but I can coz I understand these things'

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 20 Sep 2017

      Of course, we do all have unconscious biases but these are rarely uncovered by other people with explicit ideological biases of their own.

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