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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. Ryan Dee‏ @Ryan__Dee May 23
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @HeatherEHeying

      Fallacy of the excluded middle.

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    2. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 23
      Replying to @Ryan__Dee @HeatherEHeying

      I would blame those who identify a "free speech crisis" at the academy of creating a false dilemma. In practice, there can be both people who disrupt free speech while free speech continues on at the university as a whole.

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    3. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia May 24
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @Ryan__Dee @HeatherEHeying

      You can only tackle threats to free speech while you still have free speech. At what point does it constitute a crisis? Opinions differ. She doesn't want to be tagged right now because working but you should look up Helen Pluckrose's work on this. (She did surveys & got numbers).

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 24
      Replying to @IonaItalia @Ryan__Dee @HeatherEHeying

      Sure thing. In general, I would say that professors have a particular responsibility to expose their students to good (if not also controversial) ideas. Free speech just for the sake of it really doesn't match with the mission of the university.

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    5. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia May 24
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @Ryan__Dee @HeatherEHeying

      No, nothing should be done just for the sake of it. But bad ideas are important. Both in order to understand history & sociology & in order to learn how to counter them. Also, we should push the boundaries of free speech to ensure they don't start constricting...

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    6. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 24
      Replying to @IonaItalia @Ryan__Dee @HeatherEHeying

      Sure: as long as they are presented as bad ideas. Creationism is worth discussing but creationists have no place lecturing in the university.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 24
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

      They really need to be presented by people who think they are good ideas. Can't just spoonfeed students 'Here is a bad idea and this is why it is bad.' That's not teaching them to pinpoint & challenge the problems in potentially dangerous ideas & we'll need people who can do that

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    8. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
      Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and

      Sure you can. If I teach about the way the fascists used Nietzsche, I can certainly present it as a degradation.

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    9. Iona Italia‏ @IonaItalia May 25
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @HPluckrose and

      If it's unfaithful to Nietzsche.

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    10. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
      Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose and

      Right. But, it would be my interpretation. I am not going to get in someone who thinks it is a "good idea."

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
      Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

      Why wouldn't you? Do that first. Encourage your students to think for themselves about why it's a bad idea and then provide any arguments they might have missed. They can't rely on you to interpret everything for them forever. They'll be needed to run the world at some point.

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        2. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and

          No. I am able to provide an interpretation without getting in someone each time to provide an alternate view.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
          Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

          Of course you can provide an interpretation. Everyone can. But do they go to university to learn the interpretations of David Tabachnick? I am asking whether you think students need to be able to analyse an argument for fascism/Islamism/communism/nationalism/whatever themselves?

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        4. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and

          Of course! That is the goal. Free and critical thinkers.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
          Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

          Then show them to them! Don't filter it through your representation which will be that it is bad. They need to be able to identify that themselves.

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        6. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and

          They take many classes from different professors. That is the point of undergraduate education.

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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
          Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

          But you trust all of them not to show students arguments for bad things made by people who believe in them so this isn't much good, is it?

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        8. David Tabachnick‏ @DeTabachnick May 25
          Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia and

          No. I have no say in what they teach in their classrooms.

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose May 25
          Replying to @DeTabachnick @IonaItalia and

          Your reasoning is chaotic and inconsistent.

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