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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 8 Nov 2017

      I've long been worried abt the narrowing of ideas in the humanities & social sciences & authoritarian measures to censor & punish wrongthink but now also by anti-intellectual drives to discredit universities & scholarship generally using this as justification.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017

      There is a measure between 'Accept uncritically epistemic and ideological problems within the academic left' & 'Burn it all down. We don't need universities anyway.' We don't cure viruses by shooting the patient in the head.

      7:13 AM - 8 Nov 2017
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        1. Tyto Alba‏ @euneaux 8 Nov 2017
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          A better metaphor is a highly contagious smallpox patient running for the exit of his quarantine.

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        1. Tyto Alba‏ @euneaux 8 Nov 2017
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          This is a terminal case. The only thing that remains is to harvest any organs that aren't hopelessly diseased.

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        1. Snow Beaner‏ @BeanerOfSnow 8 Nov 2017
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          Nah, burn it down and rebuild an institution in its ashes that ie. doesn't require freshmen to take left wing indoctrination courses regardless of major. Re-"colonize" the humanities.

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        2. Pay Tree Arch Is Back, With a Longer Name Than Bef‏ @paytreearch 8 Nov 2017
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          No, but sometimes the correct medical approach is to amputate to save the patient. I genuinely don't expect that universities will be worth attending by the time my kids are college age.

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        3. Pay Tree Arch Is Back, With a Longer Name Than Bef‏ @paytreearch 8 Nov 2017
          Replying to @paytreearch @HPluckrose

          @benshapiro already employs the joke "you have to be highly educated to be this stupid" and it's funny because of how true it is. Higher "education" often produces people who are less able to reason about the world than when they started.

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