Helen, you’re pointing to the extremes and making it out to be representative of the monolith. What about the extremes on the far-right: racism, sexism, homophobia. Even in the extremes of the far-left, I rather tolerate their, sometimes, misguided view on equality than bigotry
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Be objective
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Replying to @MX_Mollenthiel @benshapiro
This is what we argued here. I agree with you. https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ … I thought that was clear when I said I missed the memo about the left needing to judge people on race, gender, sexuality etc. I'm left and I don't. I am not alone.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @benshapiro
Okay, I’ve read your piece. I’ll share my views, as there are flaws throughout.
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Lets first touch on “objective truths.” Outside of mathematics, affirming an objective truth can be, well, sticky. Me and you see a tree, but from different vantage points, thus, are can objectively say that it is an objective truth that there is a tree in front of us. 1.
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Me and you both see a tree; both are objective truths,but with different subjective http://experiences.You can see a heart carved on a tree, an objective truth from your vantage point, but relative to the position to which I’m viewing the tree, would be outside of 2.
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my objective observation 3.
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Second, you speak of the Enlightenment bringing forth science, mathematics, etc., without acknowledging that much of these breakthroughs occurred in India, i.e., gravitational force, planet rotation, etc. 5.
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The essay is not about this. At all. Where would the intellectual history of India go? I pointed out the orientalism in postcolonial theory and intersectionality when it claims science is not for Eastern people.
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