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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 9 Dec 2017

      Those of us who consider ourselves liberal in the broadest sense of favouring equal rights, freedoms & opportunities must not allow social progress to be associated with the far-left any more than we should allow freedom of speech to be associated with the far-right.

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    2. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

      'Progress' is a fundamentally left-wing idea

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

      It's liberal. The centre-right often wants things to get better too. I am left bug not far-left. I don't seek revolution but steady progress of the kind we've seen in the last 50 years.

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    4. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

      Well liberalism was left wing until the 20th century. Historically, most conservatives would have found the idea of 'social progress' anathema. It implies a departure from social order and hierachy, religion, tradition etc. Your position is left-wing, which is fine

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    5. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @vampireslugger @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

      but I don't think it's even centrist. It's definitely, clearly Left

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

      Don't think what is even centrist? Social progress? Maybe tho I'm pleased to know many conservatives to supported same sex marriage & the right to die. But my point was that liberals can't let the far-left loons own this concept.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

      Enlightenment liberals, classical liberals, universal liberals also want social progress. This is not owned by radical lefties.

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    8. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

      Those liberals were once radicals

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

      I'm not sure what you're arguing with. I'm saying there is a liberal left and a radical left now and the radicals don't own the aim for social progress. This is inherent in liberalism.

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    10. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

      And identity politics is the logical outgrowth of the things modern liberals say they like: gay rights, diversity, feminism... So who is 'far left' and who is moderate? I find it hard to tell.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
      Replying to @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

      No. Identity politics was a reaction against universal liberalism. Liberals like gay rights & women's rights but diversity is loaded and nearly always used to mean diversity of identity rather than ideas. Not a fan of this usage.

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        2. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

          So, do you not favour diversity of identity? And the idea that liberalism is universally applicable seems to me more radical than the idea that it isn't.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 9 Dec 2017
          Replying to @vampireslugger @ianpacemain

          Diversity of identity is neutral provided equality of opportunity exists. Universal liberalism simply means applying liberal principles consistently & not being culturally or tribally relative.

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        4. Steven‏ @vampireslugger 9 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain

          Politics is relative. Things that work in one context might not work in another.

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        1. John Howard‏ @eggandsperm 9 Dec 2017
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          It’s important to stress that women's rights are indeed different from men's rights, and identity doesn’t matter to whether someone has women's rights or men's rights, only the body does. People born male don’t have the right to gestate a fetus.

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