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 @bariweiss and
If you like Charles Murray get out.
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Replying to @nathanoseroff @bariweiss and
Also can you please connect with the fact that I conceded a huge point you. Like not noticing that just deters people from having productive convos where they concede where they are wrong.
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Nothing's been conceded; you just said you like these people, hence why you're defending them. But there's nothing to like in Charles Murray, Ben Shapiro, Jordan B Peterson, Bari Weiss or Sam Harris. Hence there's no point in having a 'productive conversation'.
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I conceded that I was not harsh enough of the strawmans made by them. I didn't just claim I liked them? Please try harder to understand the claims I am making.
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Replying to @LevelOAnalysis
You did claim you liked them, though. And there's no real point in talking about any underlying, principled reasons for why you like them when there are no principled reasons for doing so. So you like them. Cool, I guess?
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