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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      I don't think it's wrong to have these questions, which are natural I think these questions have answers and discussing the answers can be enlightening But as the old observational comedy routine about nine-year-olds points out, "WHY" questions have no limit They go on forever

      2 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      As @PhilosophyTube pointed out in his famous video about this, they are an excellent tactic from "skeptics" to just waste your time indefinitely without any intention of ever admitting you have a point

      1 reply 3 retweets 29 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      And as every freshman dorm room philosopher knows, the longer and deeper you go down the "WHY" rabbit hole, the harder it gets to talk about these things in ordinary, everyday small words, the more effort you have to put in to even know what you're talking about

      1 reply 3 retweets 23 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      Which is why when someone demands answers to these very deep questions that cut to the core of who you are, demanding you justify the basic way you see the world and live your life, and then they cut you off because the words you're using are too big, they're not in good faith

      1 reply 4 retweets 34 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      It's notable that Gender Trouble gets singled out here, because Gender Trouble was never intended for or marketed to your random conservative dad who doesn't get what trans stuff is about It was aimed at other academic feminists for whom this was an ongoing debate

      1 reply 2 retweets 28 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      It feels so abstruse and dense to an outsider because it's using language from within the field to defend "the performative theory of gender" from a specific line of attack Namely the feminist worry that "If anyone can just be a woman there won't be any more feminism"

      1 reply 2 retweets 24 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      This (extremely oversimplified) concern is, of course, what TERFs are obsessed with and what they think of as obviously true to the level of a religious tenet So of course they think of Butler as the Antichrist and this book in particular as an abomination they attack constantly

      1 reply 2 retweets 20 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      But to someone from outside that whole tradition this is likely to sound like so much white noise Which they exploit Much like crackpots in other fields

      1 reply 1 retweet 23 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      Explaining that the speed of light is a "universal speed limit" isn't that hard Explaining WHY that is is, in fact, incredibly difficult - I could just show you Maxwell's equations but then how do I put it in words so that you accept the logic behind them

      1 reply 4 retweets 23 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      And then if I'm some weirdo who thinks Einstein was a charlatan and relativity is a lie for vaguely antisemitic reasons I can show you the middle of an email argument I had with a professor and go "Look at how much abstruse jargon and math she's using, look at how upset she is"

      1 reply 3 retweets 24 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @JillTempered and

      "Look at how much easier it is for me to explain my ideas to you in plain English, just talking to you Doesn't that give you a sense of whose ideas are better"

      9:38 AM - 24 Sep 2020
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      0 replies 3 retweets 23 likes

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