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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 8 Nov 2017

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted "Anti-Fascism is a position, not an organization"

    Yes. I would. One woman said she did self-censor her Christian beliefs. That shouldn't happen either.https://twitter.com/DonaldMcBee/status/928311929294196736 …

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    "Anti-Fascism is a position, not an organization" @DonaldMcBee
    Replying to @HPluckrose @hollylis @RichardDawkins
    Should would be concerned that open creationists, flat earthers, holocaust denialists and many others are also "self-censored" due to social and career consequences?
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      2.  🇨🇦 K@‏ @KatMullaly 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Hmmm... Not entirely sure about that. I won't be treated by any physician wearing religious symbols because I want expertise from an evidence-based thinker. Why is that wrong?

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KatMullaly

        You can discriminate by religion in your choice of physician if you choose. They shouldn't have to fear it will jeopardise their careers tho.

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      4.  🇨🇦 K@‏ @KatMullaly 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Might if enough people followed suit. Then what? A hospital dress policy forbidding expression/forcing self-censorship, maybe. My point: free expression still has consequences, and sometimes self-censorship is little more (and nothing less) than common sense.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KatMullaly

        I just want to work on an atmosphere where consequences are reasonable & evidence-based & people are more tolerant of different ideas.

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      6.  🇨🇦 K@‏ @KatMullaly 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Agree. And struggle mightily myself with this. What beliefs should I tolerate in others where disagree? A very wavy line, and entirely contextual.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @KatMullaly

        Yes. I don't care if my doctor is religious. I might care if my flatmate was or my child's nanny.

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      8. Gil Ant‏ @Gil_Ant 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose @KatMullaly

        Not kidding, this happened this year, young Angolan doctor during company check-up, i'm describing deterioration of knees and growing pains due to severe accident years ago, her answer "let's hope god will help". Nothing else.

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      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Gil_Ant @KatMullaly

        Then that doctor needs to go.

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      2. Mysturji #FBPE‏ @Mysturji 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I wouldn’t. Raised in a Catholic environment, I was homophobic without realising it. When the tide started turning, I shut up, listened, and *thought* about it, then gradually changed my opinions. *Self* censorship is fine. It means you suspect you may be wrong.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Mysturji

        It depends on the reason. Not speaking your thoughts because you have come to be ashamed of them for good reason is an excellent reason to self-censor.

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      4. Mysturji #FBPE‏ @Mysturji 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I wasn’t ashamed until later: *After* thinking about it. What would be a bad reason?

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Mysturji

        But you need to hear counterviews to do that. People screaming homophobe at you is a much less effective way. See the thing I wrote for many examples.

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      6. Mysturji #FBPE‏ @Mysturji 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Well, that’s a counter-view. If it starts you thinking... (Not what happened with me)

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      1. "Anti-Fascism is a position, not an organization"‏ @DonaldMcBee 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Really, so a creationist should be allowed to teach their beliefs in a biology classroom? A hollow-earth believer should teach it in geology? A holocaust denier should be able to teach it in history? TERFer should teach it in neurology and/or gender studies?

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      1. FanofNUFC‏ @AustraliaToon1 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I self censor all the time. That is the primary reason I am anonymous on twitter, as I do not have to.

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      2. Paolo G. Giarrusso‏ @Blaisorblade 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Wait Helen, should believing in a flat Earth not carry consequences? Let’s not confuse keep solid science and dominant ideologies. And let’s not confuse solid science with open questions.

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      3. victorymonk‏ @victorymonk 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Blaisorblade @HPluckrose

        It's common mistake for ppl to mix Natural Sciences (the Earth is flat) to social sciences. Unlike Physics, almost nothing is 100% in Social Sciences. Did you notice how we already sent a man to the Moon, but still can't prevent or predict an economic crisis?

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      4. Paolo G. Giarrusso‏ @Blaisorblade 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @victorymonk @HPluckrose

        FWIW I’m not confusing the two, the confusion was upthread. But macroeconomy is a low blow: they can’t do controlled experiments. And at least one macroeconomist has called out the entire discipline as unfalsifiable.

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      5. victorymonk‏ @victorymonk 8 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Blaisorblade @HPluckrose

        So the idea that one opinion has lower weight than another and then the former doesn't deserve time is dangerous once we move into unsettled science/social science areas. Imho.

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