Has @bariweiss, @SamHarrisOrg, @jordanbpeterson, @benshapiro, or @charlesmurray responded to @NathanJRobinson's article on @curaffairs yet? It's been four months. Nothing but crickets. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/pretty-loud-for-being-so-silenced …
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Replying to @nathanoseroff @bariweiss and
Free speech can both be under assault and people making this point can be popular. I’m not even going to make some subtle Simpson’s Paradox like point. It’s as simple as obesity and starvation can happen in the same society.
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Replying to @LevelOAnalysis @nathanoseroff and
As long as food is not evenly distributed throughout the population, you can have both. As long as free speech values are not evenly distributed throughout the population, you can have both a crisis of free speech and popular free speech advocates.
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Replying to @LevelOAnalysis @bariweiss and
So what you're saying is the NY Times should hire
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Replying to @nathanoseroff @bariweiss and
I think Nathan Robinson doesn't use the principle of charity enough, so I wouldn't recommend him to work for any popular publication. I'm not sure how that's relevant to what I said though.
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Replying to @LevelOAnalysis @bariweiss and
Nathan Robinson: 'doesn't use the principle of charity enough'. Bari Weiss, Sam Harris, Jordan B Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Charles Murray: well-known for using the principle of charity. Am I in Hell?
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Replying to @nathanoseroff @bariweiss and
Definitely I am more responsive and offended by strawmans and mischaracterizations when they happen to people I like than people I dislike, and that's bad.
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Replying to @LevelOAnalysis @nathanoseroff and
Peterson & Harris haven't written long essays about why specific thinkers are bad--recommending they not be taken seriously by sane ppl. When you do that you shouldn't strawman, mischaracterize, and not contend /w the true and useful things that explain some of their popularity.
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No, Harris just blithely compares Vox journalists to the Klan. What a fundamentally unserious man undeserving of attention. https://twitter.com/aiizavva/status/1007622441487695873 …
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Replying to @nathanoseroff @bariweiss and
This is the exact thing I'm critiquing Robinson for. Dismissing a person using a half-sentence out of context quote that uncharitably understands what he's trying to get at is hack. You wouldn't accept someone doing that to Popper or Quine. It's not good to do in general.
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Plausibly Harris is pointing to the level of unreason on the left where people's moral and empirical claims can be dismissed out of hand because of their race. This is something you would expect from the far far right, but is common in mainstream lefty circles.
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