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    1. Nassim Nicholas Taleb‏Verified account @nntaleb 6 Jul 2018

      ANACHRONISTIC BIGOTEERING You cannot flow today’s rules of morality backward in time & judge people THEN based on rules developed later. Morality <=customs (mores) No law should be RETROACTIVE, something these idiots don’t get @mattewasears shd be working for local McDonaldspic.twitter.com/fjuebVnZSV

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jul 2018
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      Dude, he was making a factual statement, not a moral one. It's absolutely true that Athenian egalitarianism for citizens was built on slavery, misogyny & xenophobia.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jul 2018

          The moral content is whatever values the reader brings to sentence.

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        1. Steven Klein‏ @stevenmklein 6 Jul 2018
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          also, retroactive moral judgments, within reasonable limits, are fine. cannot tell if the comparison to "retroactive laws" is meant to be serious

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        1. Christian Cueva‏ @christian7cueva 6 Jul 2018
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          Apparently this is when political correctness is “acceptable,” except the potentially triggered have long been dead?

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        1. Nanne Zwagerman‏ @nanne_z 5 Jul 2019
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          No. Stating that Athenian egalitarianism was “built on” slavery, misogyny and xenophobia is ambiguous and value-laden, given that contemporaneous states practiced the same, but were not egalitarian. Egalitarianism went against the current. “Coexisted with” would be factual.

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