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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 13 Dec 2017

    Hmmm. Three people have tweeted me recently to say they like my writing but are confused that I call myself a liberal lefty coz I seem conservative to them. This confuses me! What do I say that seems conservative?

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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017

        I'm fully aware that the political spectrum has shifted left in my lifetime leaving me closer to the centre than I ever have been but I'm still very much to the left of it.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017

        On all the tests, I come out libertarian left. My moral foundations are strongly liberal with just a slight nod to conservatism with some respect for tradition and a fairly low disgust threshhold.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017

        My attitudes have changed tho and recently. I used to have a strongly 'us and them' mentality in opposition to conservatives and religious people. I don't now. The battlelines have changed.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017

        I appreciate a wider range of views now and some of them come from conservatives and religious people. But this, I feel, is because I have become more consistently liberal, not less.

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      2. Patrick M. McBurney‏ @PMMcBurney 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You present yourself as a thoughtful, considerate, intelligent and intellectually honest person who is not possessed by a militant hatred of anyone outside of your group; therefore you appear tolerant of differing political beliefs and willing to give them honest consideration.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @PMMcBurney

        Well, thank you! That is the aim, certainly.

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      2. Neil Garratt‏ @NeilGarratt 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I suspect it’s the prevailing “us and them” tribal mentality: since you disagree with some liberal orthodoxies, you can’t be Us so you just be Them, ergo a conservative. As a conservative you don’t strike me as a conservative, but as a thoughtful liberal.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NeilGarratt

        Thank you, Neil! Strangely, it's conservatives who've been telling me this because they like my writing. I suspect they don't think thoughtful liberals exist. Lefties tell me I'm conservative all the time for the reason you give!

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      4. Neil Garratt‏ @NeilGarratt 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        A thoughtful anything is hard to come by these days, especially on twitter!

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      1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @nitpickette01

        Yeah but they don't tend to like my writing.

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      2. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Post-modernism is taking us into a post-liberal age and is so well embedded in the mainstream that most don't even realise it.. To support Liberalism is to be conservative in that world... which is why PM must be defeated, because it's not the superior position for left to hold

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      1. Yako‏ @giacomosaav 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You don’t need to define yourself with labels. Use logic and reason.

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      1. Christopher‏ @ObviouslyNotAll 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        You don't see women as helpless victims, you recognise men have problems too, and you don't buy into PoMo or hard-left socialist ideology. These things mean you're conservative in some people's eyes.

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      2. Barry Purcell‏ @solo1y 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Maybe they are confusing criticism of left wing stuff for being right wing?

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      1. Sᴛᴇᴠᴇɴ Wɪʟʟɪᴀᴍꜱᴏɴ‏ @scarce_sense 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I think it may have something to do with you not declaring men and masculinity to be the spawn of Satan. And supporting free speech. Only alt-right Nazi MRAs would do such things.

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      1. Vincent Morrone Author‏ @Vince524 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        This is the problem with labels. I'd be considered liberal if you dropped me in Alabama, but conservative in someplace like San Francisco. People need to stop worrying about labels and deal with issues.

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