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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. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30

      Anna Ellis Retweeted Helen Pluckrose

      I'm finding this conversation interesting, on a number of levels. I'd need a detailed definition of "far-right views" before I could join in a dialogue of whether it's "blindingly obvious" that they are wrong/don't have any substance.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/979764760009994241 …

      Anna Ellis added,

      Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose
      It's not hard at all. It just doesn't take very long, especially when talking to fellow lefties. It's blindingly obvious why far-right views are wrong. If you think it's harmful to say far-right views don't have any substance, can you say what the substance is? https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rivieria/status/979762815681445888 …
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 30
      Replying to @annaellis_net

      Could you suggest a far-right view which does have theoretical, ideological depth and complexity?

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    3. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Like I said, we need to ensure we're both talking about the same thing when we refer to far-right. For example, elements of classical fascism overlap with element of socialism. I'm interested in a moral framework approach as well as a sociopolitical historical approach.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
      Replying to @annaellis_net @HPluckrose

      How would you define far-right? Academic references are fine, I've got access to the university's online library.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 30
      Replying to @annaellis_net

      I don't think we'll find a single academic source which defines the far right tho many which look at aspects of it from Nazism, to KKK, to ethnonationalism, to antisemitic conspiracy theories to religious fundamentalism to extreme libertarians who want to make war on government.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      My issue is this: anti-semitism is prevalent across a linear political spectrum, tending to coagulate around the extremist fringes of both Left and Right. Ditto ethnonationalism (http://m4bl.org , SA political parties, etc.) Ditto AnCap/AnSoc. Horseshoe theory ftw.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 30
      Replying to @annaellis_net

      See. Now we can't have a conversation about extremism because we've got bogged down. In reality, we all know extreme versions of leftism and rightism exist and are known as far-left and far-right and can point to examples of it.

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        2. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I'd suggest we *can* have a conversation about extremism. It's arguable that shoehorning the subject into a linear analogy no longer works as our understanding of the political spectrum is now more akin to that of a radar chart.

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        3. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
          Replying to @annaellis_net @HPluckrose

          Assuming the radar chart approach, we could define key ideological points and then measure/assess ideologies in a a multivariate approach.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 30
          Replying to @annaellis_net

          We could certainly write an essay defining extremism, yes, but for the purpose of the context of this Twitter conversation, we have got stuck. I'm left back where I was which is saying that far-left extremists are citing current scholarship I can get my teeth into, not far-right

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        5. Anna Ellis‏ @annaellis_net Mar 30
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          As you've pointed out elsewhere on this increasingly bifurcated thread, that's almost certainly due to the lack of opportunity for academics to produce that research. I'm sure far-right extremists are citing scholarship, but whether it's either current or peer-reviewed is the q.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 30
          Replying to @annaellis_net

          You are? None of them are citing it to me. I get very bored, very fast coz nothing of substance. But I won't die on that hill. I might have missed them. It is the reason I am focused on the far-left tho. Their extremist loons are accessible and often published & I can address it

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