Wishing a truly happy birthday to @clairlemon. I keep seeing kind of snarky or nasty swipes at @QuilletteM for being supposedly a pseudo-respectable cover for regressive ideas & for people in power who don't deserve it to justify their status & the status quo generally [thread]
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... & I want 2 acknowledge there are often pieces in
@QuilletteM that rub me the wrong way or I wish were more nuanced in taking a progressive/ social-justice/ feminist view more seriously. But I suspect@clairlemon would welcome such pieces & people should submit them! Also ...2 replies 0 retweets 21 likesShow this thread -
... I need to say that
@clairlemon has always been a pleasure to work with, very open-minded, supportive of me in my writing, especially as a student & when I had a much smaller platform, and hands-off as an editor in the best way, giving writers leeway to do their own thing ...1 reply 0 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
... finally, I think it's just incredible what she's done. For such a young person, and indeed as a woman in a man-heavy world, to stick her neck out & create her own magazine & give voice 2 many writers & perspectives that genuinely stimulate & do challenge ossified thinking ...
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... all while fending off daily abuse with confidence and even a sense of humor ... well, I think that's really impressive! ... And just one more thought --
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...As someone w/ feminist & progressive convictions AND interest in so-called 'classical liberalism' I would just encourage ppl who disagree w
@QuilletteM pieces on feminist/progressive/social-justice grounds 2 submit good-faith responses! I bet@clairlemon would happily publish!3 replies 3 retweets 40 likesShow this thread -
Brian, I don't believe that there would be good faith in accepting responses because the well has been wholly poisoned against whole categories of theorising. It's anything but an open-minded place – it's just closed around a worldview you/we have *some* agreement with.
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I'm less sure ... I think there may be a kind of self-perpetuating self-selection where ppl inclined to a particular way of viewing 'science & rationality' may keep submitting. But there exceptions like https://quillette.com/2016/05/21/giving-genes-their-due-but-not-more/ … & if more like this submit, I think more wld appear
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Don't regard the pub as entirely lacking in quality – it's not Breitbart for rationalists. But why give such a platform for people to write about social justice who are so misinformed about the subject that almost every article comes off to those in the know as a strawperson?
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