Showing contradictions (e.g. in the White woman as a subject of liberation) shouldn't undermine respect for values.
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
It might be helpful to turn the question around and ask how respect for science could be undermined, if you tried really hard.
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Replying to @fronxer
By undermining consensus that the best epistemology is one which relies on evidence and testing. That there are alternative ways of knowing
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There are, depending on the subject matter. If people learned how to compare and integrate different knowledges, we'd have better science.
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
Similar to how there's room for qualitative as well as quantitative analyses.
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Replying to @fronxer
Depending on whether we want to know how people feel or what the reality is.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Aren't people's feelings part of reality? Knowing how people feel seems quite important to me.
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Replying to @fronxer
Yes but they don't define it. It can be useful to know how people feel abt immigrations but those feelings are separate to the reality of it
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Replying to @HPluckrose
What constitutes the reality of immigration? Is it numbers? Or is it human interactions, an authority that assigns labels, feelings,…
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Replying to @fronxer @HPluckrose
Immigration is actually a good example that illustrates the significance of curiously complex concepts in constructing realities.
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Its a good example of the need to keep truth separate from feelings. Retain some respect for evidence, statistics, facts.
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