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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 Jan 10

      Saying something is 'tone deaf' is not an ethical argument against it. First you need to show the tone it is not hitting is one that should be hit.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

      Tone-deaf means 'jarring to the dominant cultural discourse'. Whether or not you think the dominant cultural discourse could benefit from jarring entirely depends on what it is.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          My mother was tone-deaf when she posted memos at her workplace saying that women should be allowed to take accountancy exams. Was she right or wrong? Her 'tone-deafness' doesn't tell us that. We need an ethical argument on the issues.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          So, if James Damore was tone-deaf to bring biological gender-differences into a discussion of diversity issues, this does not mean he was also wrong. The question is '*Is* this acceptable as part of the discussion?' I would argue that it is.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          In that case, the problem would not be the tone-deafness of the person challenging the expectations of his workplace but that the workplace had the expectation that its cultural/political norms would not be challenged.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          Nevertheless, some people who are all for disrupting hegemonic cultural norms and dominant discourses in some circumstances suddenly discover a new-found respect for authority and convention when the dominant views are their own.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          I have just finished reading a paper which looked at the way trans people who were also trans activists went about disrupting the norms and expectations at their workplace. There was much approval & no mention of tone-deafness.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 10

          That is a good thing, I think, although it could get rather tiresome if you're just trying to do your job and your colleagues keep deconstructing gender binaries all over the place. Much better to do so in, say, a memo.

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