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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 10 Oct 2017

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Nicholas A. Christakis

      Current approaches to anti-discrimination & privilege hugely de-emphasise the role played by class & that might be the biggest factor.https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/917479502728572928 …

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      Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis
      On names used in audits for racial bias; & conflation of race/class. Nice methodological work. Via @SociologicalSci https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v4-19-469/?utm_content=buffer2463e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer …
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017

      It might not be but it's very hard to tell because 'systems of privilege' approaches neglect it so seriously. I suspect it is. Class/wealth.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017

      There's motivation to neglect class because it means some PoC have more privilege than some white people & some women more than some men.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017

          Particularly the latter but class & race have significant correlations which need to be looked at to address anything.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017

          Prob not coincidence my private schoolmates nearly all doing a lot better than my husbands whose underfunded school was closed for failure.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 10 Oct 2017

          Nor that my schoolmates nearly all white, South Asian & Jewish kids of wealthy parents & his white & black kids of poor ones.

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        2. Gummy Bear Messiah‏ @zero132132 10 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          If you actually care about inequality, though, recognizing that the more privileged PoC and women will get the majority of benefits given-

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        3. Gummy Bear Messiah‏ @zero132132 10 Oct 2017
          Replying to @zero132132 @HPluckrose

          to PoC & women in an attempt at correcting inequality will go to the already-privileged is kind of important.

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        4. Gummy Bear Messiah‏ @zero132132 10 Oct 2017
          Replying to @zero132132 @HPluckrose

          That's why I don't think SJWs actually give a fuck about the people they claim to give a fuck about.

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        2. Mike‏ @citation_needed 10 Oct 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          It has been noted by cynical minds that if class/wealth were paid attention to, a lot of the students and professors who rail on about...

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        3. Mike‏ @citation_needed 10 Oct 2017
          Replying to @citation_needed @HPluckrose

          ...privilege would have to shut up and check theirs. And we obviously can't have that from the "it's OK when WE do it!" crowd.

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