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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 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @GodDoesnt and

      Yes. We don't need a theory for that. We just need that idea. Crenshaw explicitly discouraged individuality & shared humanity. She frowned upon 'I am a person who happens to be black' & advocated 'I am black.' She criticised universal liberalism for trying to overcome categories

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @GodDoesnt and

      Yes, I argued in my essay on the problem with intersectional feminism that it could be good if it worked within universal liberalism. Crenshaw was right to criticise it for focusing almost solely on individuality & shared humanity - the individual is enabled to access everything.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

      That did assume a level playing field had been achieved by giving everyone equal legal rights and there was a need to look at how people could be held back by their group identity. She was wrong to make that everything & throw out individuality & shared human experience.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

      Although she did say that universality could work at a different time.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @GodDoesnt and

      Yes, we need to be able to see the problem. It can't be perceptual. 'You just congratulated me on my eloquence because you didn't think a black person could speak properly.' Maybe that is true. Maybe it isn't. Creating eggshells doesn't help.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

      We had that ludicrous situation where in the same week someone proposed that everyone make an effort to cite more WoC in academic papers and someone else called it appropriation when a white woman quoted Beyoncé admiringly.

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

      It needs to be not only possible not to be racist or sexist but relatively easy. If it is difficult or impossible for a man not to be sexist or a white person not to be racist, very many will stop trying.

      7:05 PM - 26 Dec 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 26 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Atticus_Amber @GodDoesnt and

          But that wasn't you being racist. It was you not realising something. And if you hadn't realised, he could have said to you that often taxis don't stop for black men. Then you could have thanked him, maybe asked questions to understand better & gone on enjoying your day together.

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        4. flabberghosted(Am I an NPC?)‏ @observeaddict 26 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Atticus_Amber @HPluckrose and

          The recognition & removal of negative heuristics faced by certain ID groups is a worthy goal. Unfortunately, resentment (from repeated frustration which is understandable) led to creating neg heuristics against oppressor groups. Downward spiral of mistrust and diffusion of blame

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        6. flabberghosted(Am I an NPC?)‏ @observeaddict 26 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Atticus_Amber @HPluckrose and

          Just the way broad concepts like whiteness and patriarchy are thrown around in an all encompassing and negative way. It seems like a mental shortcut to fulfill a vengeful urge.

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        7. flabberghosted(Am I an NPC?)‏ @observeaddict 26 Dec 2017
          Replying to @observeaddict @Atticus_Amber and

          The problem is it takes special training in a reality denying epistemology, so it’s ultimately false, unpersuasive, divisive and anxiety causing

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        8. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah 27 Dec 2017
          Replying to @observeaddict @Atticus_Amber and

          I’m starting a band called “The Negative Heuristics”. I’ll cut you in for 10% if you want. ;)

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        1. Yenrap Rellin‏ @sisboombahbah 27 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

          Read my last tweet about that party I was at.

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        1. Unscrupulous Golfer Rob Marchione‏ @RobMarchione 26 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Atticus_Amber and

          Yes, by buying into that you reinforce the ideas of "racial realists"--tripe

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