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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 Mar 16

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Casaubon

    No. This kind of leftism mostly just asserts that language is violence, that microaggressions are real and that freedom of speech must be limited to prevent harm. They just accept this as true & don't analyse where it came from & how it works.https://twitter.com/Sneaky_Disease/status/974613674945073154 …

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    Casaubon @Sneaky_Disease
    Replying to @HPluckrose
    Does the Left truly address this topic with such depth?
    5:26 AM - 16 Mar 2018
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    • Mrs. Lamp (((ɹoqǝɹʇs ɹ ɔ))) Finn Horsley charlie phillips Victor Baker³ Ian Foote Gita.J Kathryn Hogan Casaubon
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      2. NPC-Of-The-Year‏ @BilboBobgans Mar 16
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Words are not violence, at least in the traditional sense of the word. Words do not physically damage ones body. However, I think in some contexts, we ought restrain ourselves, words can lead to great peace, or great physical harm, and not only of yourself.

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      3. NPC-Of-The-Year‏ @BilboBobgans Mar 16
        Replying to @BilboBobgans @HPluckrose

        NPC-Of-The-Year Retweeted S.E. Cupp

        Here is S.E Cupp suggesting that people employ restraint wrt t their words/expression about Jr's divorce to prevent unnecessary emotional distress.https://twitter.com/secupp/status/974456169677848576 …

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        S.E. CuppVerified account @secupp
        Very disheartened to see many in media covering the Don Jr divorce news with glee, making jokes and memes about it. Divorce is sad and hard on kids, I speak from experience. Let’s have some sympathy and restraint.
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      4. NPC-Of-The-Year‏ @BilboBobgans Mar 16
        Replying to @BilboBobgans @HPluckrose

        NPC-Of-The-Year Retweeted Chelsea Clinton

        And, for the sake of some balance, here is Chelsea Clinton doing effectively the same thing.https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/974420021790126080 …

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        Chelsea ClintonVerified account @ChelseaClinton
        Please respect the privacy of President Trump’s grandchildren. They’re kids and deserve to not be your clickbait. Thank you.
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      5. NPC-Of-The-Year‏ @BilboBobgans Mar 16
        Replying to @BilboBobgans @HPluckrose

        And these are examples from just this day. People clearly recognize that words can cause emotional distress.

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      6. Akiva Cohen‏ @AkivaMCohen Mar 16
        Replying to @BilboBobgans @HPluckrose

        Yes. But where we don't restrain ourselves from causing emotional distress with our words, government ought not do it for us. If words were actually violence, that would not be true.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. The Rugby Dude, Esq.‏ @Juris_dudence Mar 16
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Reading the article I couldn’t help being reminded of a topic that came up during some classes in law school regarding the so-called “sovereign citizen” movement and their beliefs about the Constitution and how laws actually function.

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      3. The Rugby Dude, Esq.‏ @Juris_dudence Mar 16
        Replying to @Juris_dudence @HPluckrose

        SOVCITS believe they can make authoritative legal arguments in court by relying on essentially talismanic incantations of certain words or writing them in certain colored ink at a 45° angle.

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      4. The Rugby Dude, Esq.‏ @Juris_dudence Mar 16
        Replying to @Juris_dudence @HPluckrose

        They hold this this belief despite all evidence that it has ever been employed successfully and would rather devote countless hours to trying to improve their bizarre incantations than study the laws which actually bear on their situation.

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      5. The Rugby Dude, Esq.‏ @Juris_dudence Mar 16
        Replying to @Juris_dudence @HPluckrose

        It’s the bizarre insistence that the words contain some sort of power, separate and apart from the context and intent with which they’re used, which reminds me of the logocentrism issue discussed in the article. It’s just so bizarre.

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      1. Casaubon‏ @Sneaky_Disease Mar 16
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        How ironically religious this seems: power of the word

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      1. Steve Mundie‏ @SteveMundie Mar 16
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Do leftists address the question: What are the negative consequences of heavy handed word policing? Particularly since it’s been a key feature of totalitarianism. Because it seems that they believe that a societal paradise would be achieved if people only used the right language.

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