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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 19

    I don't care if you call me a hypocrite for criticising people who try to prevent others from hearing certain ideas at the same time as deciding whom I myself hear because this is perfectly consistent. I don't care if you call me a snowflake for this because I'm not 12.

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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 19

        The notion of freedom at the root of freedom of speech is clearly alien to these people. It includes the freedom to say things and not to say things, to listen to things and not listen to things.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 19

        This ludicrous idea that to defend free speech is to commit to listening to it all needs to die. I defend freedom of religion too. This doesn't mean I have committed to listening to evangelism from them all. Do your thing & let me do mine is what freedom is about, people.

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 19

        I am extremely picky about what I listen to. I can't think of a case in which I have argued that someone should have the right to speak and also personally wanted to listen to them.

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      2. Nylifer‏ @zofer11 Mar 19
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Did the schools and other adult influencer's stop teaching kids "sticks and stones..." or "I'm rubber..." as general ideas? How does anyone attending to 2 or more children survive without this concept?

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      3. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 19
        Replying to @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        A question I’ve been asking for about five years now.

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      4. Stephan Brun‏ @tibfulv Mar 20
        Replying to @citation_needed @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        Seems they're teaching very different things today. Radical Feminism and Relativism, from what I hear. I met a Relativist teacher who was also Marxist in the 80s. Toned down fellow, but my first inkling that not everything was as it should be.

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      5. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 20
        Replying to @tibfulv @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        I had an outright Marxist teacher in high school who also taught postmodernism; the thing is that she explicitly told us, and never restricted to just that. “This is the Marxist lens”, “This is the PoMo lens”, etc. It was obvious which one she preferred, but she never limited us.

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      6. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 20
        Replying to @citation_needed @tibfulv and

        When they’re open and honest and say “this is one perspective of many; I prefer it, but you don’t have to use it”, I’m ok with that. Even more with her method, which required we alternate and never just stick to one so we could show we understood and could apply it.

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      7. Stephan Brun‏ @tibfulv Mar 20
        Replying to @citation_needed @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        Seems you were taught to distrust falsehood as possible, as well as trust the applicability of those tools. I actually found out Marxism's central premise was false at 17, so might have accepted that before, and rejected the teacher as a loon after.

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      8. Mike‏ @citation_needed Mar 20
        Replying to @tibfulv @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        Pretty much; and the tools do come in useful at time. That said, I had a young radical lefty phase, but it was wounded when no-one could answer the question “if it’s so good, why did Russia abandon it?” and it died when I read Jung Chang’s “Wild Swans” at age 16; I was horrified.

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      9. Stephan Brun‏ @tibfulv Mar 20
        Replying to @citation_needed @zofer11 @HPluckrose

        Hehe. Before 1989, we didn't have the advantage of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, just the obvious oppression behind the Iron Curtain. I'll take a look at Wild Swans.

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      1. Owen Edwards‏ @OwenEdwards Mar 19
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's almost as if there's a difference between you deciding for other people what they can hear and you deciding for yourself. A logical distinction I hadn't realized could exist!

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      1. obiter dicta‏ @tweetness95 Mar 20
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        No problem at all, in reality, everyone’s a hypocrite. It’s just used as a convenient label to discredit others

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