I hope this gets unpacked in that paper. I get it, but it'll be a tough sell.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/954691087217643521 …
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Replying to @AnglerFishLure
It typically has been, yes. This is how we end up with societies based on religion and other irrational narratives and why western liberal democracy is so new and rare.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I truthfully do not believe that more liberalism is the cure for liberalism. It's like trying to put out a dumpster fire by adding gasoline. imo
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Replying to @AnglerFishLure
You think it's the liberalism causing the problems right now? Not the far-right, far-left and Islamists?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think it would be more accurate to say that I believe liberalism, like all human endeavours, has a shelf life and that the significant problems posed by the far right/left and religious fundamentalism add to the overall problems that western civilisations face today.
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Replying to @AnglerFishLure @HPluckrose
Unfortunately liberalism is the only one of the applied societal structures that has worked, but I believe the far left to be the inevitable symptom of it. Hey, I might be wrong. I just don't know what to believe anymore.
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Replying to @AnglerFishLure
Equal opportunities, freedom of belief and expression, the dignity and rights of the individual regardless of race/gender/sexuality, science, reason, the aim for progress.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I agree with all of that on paper, but application of those principles seems to be tricky because, as we have seen, rights can be weaponised and equality often gets mistaken with equity.
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Very tricky, yes. A constant struggle to get it right defines liberalism. So much better than not trying to, though.
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