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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 18

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Bradley Campbell

    Good piece. I get impatient with 'There's nothing wrong with the ideology! People are just doing it wrong!' whether it's communism, Sharia, intersectionality whatever.' Benign interpretations of almost anything can & do exist but the reality of what a thing is in practice mattershttps://twitter.com/CampbellSocProf/status/975076836236390401 …

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    Bradley Campbell @CampbellSocProf
    What @conor64 gets wrong about intersectionality (or what @sullydish and @DavidAFrench get right): http://victimhoodculture.com/index.php/2018/03/17/the-intellectual-source-of-victimhood-culture/ …
    3:56 AM - 18 Mar 2018
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    • Michael Walsh Tina Russell 🏛 Ἱερόδουλη Ἀφροδίτης Mr Grieveson Rian Schmits ୧(╬ಠ益ಠ)૭ Bear-Ass Rob Stevens AtticusOz Regina🎃 Gareth
    13 replies 45 retweets 150 likes
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 18

        I wrote about how intersectionality could be valuable if it were part of a liberalism which also valued shared humanity & individuality & didn't box people into acceptable views for their identity like some kind of feudal or cast system.https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 18

        But, in practice, it does. I also recognise the drive to 'reclaim' good concepts from bad actors rather than abandon them to them. It's why I hung on to the label of 'feminist' for so long and still respect truly liberal feminists who do this.

        3 replies 6 retweets 32 likes
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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 18

        But we need to be careful that we are not prioritising and defending an ideology at the expense of defending actual human beings being harmed by the ideology.

        1 reply 6 retweets 27 likes
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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 18

        No point saying that communism, properly understood, is about sharing & fairness when mass murder & starvation have been the reality. No point saying Islam, properly understood, says there's no compulsion in religion when apostasy carries the death penalty in 13 countries.

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 18

        Similarly, there is no point saying that intersectionality, properly understood, is just a hermeneutic for understanding how people can be marginalised on many levels when in reality it leads to stereotyping, discrimination, tribalism, science-denial & violent censoriousness,

        4 replies 22 retweets 85 likes
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      7. End of conversation
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      2. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        pic.twitter.com/w8qwb9Yvqy

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Sceptical Canuck‏ @Surrey_Atheist Mar 19
        Replying to @citation_needed @HPluckrose

        Is that Shohreh Aghdashloo? I love her.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 19
        Replying to @Surrey_Atheist @HPluckrose

        It is - playing the role of Chrisjen Avasarala, a woman exactly two heartbeats from ruling the planet Earth in the SyFy series "The Expanse".pic.twitter.com/JipyGTnLPB

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      5. Sceptical Canuck‏ @Surrey_Atheist Mar 19
        Replying to @citation_needed @HPluckrose

        I need to start watching that show.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 19
        Replying to @Surrey_Atheist @HPluckrose

        I'll be honest; a good portion of its appeal is the stunning wardrobe they have for her. Another portion is hearing her drop f-bombs like she's an Aussie.pic.twitter.com/FamPxLKZKJ

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Sceptical Canuck‏ @Surrey_Atheist Mar 19
        Replying to @citation_needed @HPluckrose

        Be still my gay heart. 💜

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      8. End of conversation
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      2. Phil McCutchen‏ @PastorPhilBCC Mar 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Agree 100%. I realize u may classify my Christianity similarly, but so be it, I still agree with your implication (my take) that doctrines & ideas can in themselves be deadly.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      3. Phil McCutchen‏ @PastorPhilBCC Mar 18
        Replying to @PastorPhilBCC @HPluckrose

        Looking for goodness in Marxism is like looking for a sandwich in a sewer; you’ll find one but it will still kill you.

        0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg Mar 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If only the leeches had been properly applied, and the correct number used in the appropriate locations, bleeding would have worked.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Bob White  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🐸‏ @Bob_NW123 Mar 18
        Replying to @Ramcgreg @HPluckrose

        I hate to be this guy but: Acktchyually, now they use leaches properly (to improve blood circulation to reattached limbs and fingers) they work really well.pic.twitter.com/wBbvikL0lc

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg Mar 18
        Replying to @Bob_NW123 @HPluckrose

        Grr.... ... .. . Interesting. I did not know that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Bob White  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🐸‏ @Bob_NW123 Mar 18
        Replying to @Ramcgreg @HPluckrose

        They also use blow fly maggots, in festering woods that wont heal, to do debridement of necrotic tissue. Ain't modern medicine wonderful. Imagine lying there with the little wrigglers in your open festering wound eating your dead flesh. LOL

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg Mar 18
        Replying to @Bob_NW123 @HPluckrose

        Are you in the medical field, or do you just read a lot.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Bob White  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 🐸‏ @Bob_NW123 Mar 18
        Replying to @Ramcgreg @HPluckrose

        I just read a lot and stuff like that sticks in my mind.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. End of conversation
      1. Laura Seizer, BRD‏ @LiglyCnsrvatari Mar 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        All of these ideologies deny people's individuality and reduce them to their group status, just like Nazism.

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