... & 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 ...
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@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
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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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There's a strong view that rationality and present scientific theorising map to each other and little acknowledgement of the degree to which culture and theory change what present scientists think. I've watched you long enough to know that this is not something you agree with.
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I mean, honestly, on Sam Harris:https://quillette.com/2018/07/17/what-is-the-tribe-of-the-anti-tribalists/ …
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Ok have given this a (light) read - I agree the stuff about rah-rah scientific rationality is rather unsophisticated & one-dimensional & this idea that one can argue from "view from nowhere" is not credible. I learned some things too, e.g. re: maths of opposition 2 ID politics
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That math doesn't tell you the world starts in the position of perfect initial distribution. Also fails to acknowledge that the thesis is that identities are often discovered facts, not assignations. This is something that keeps being missed, article after article.
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I agree with your point about the maths, and definitely agree re: identities being discovered (and also often created & shaped), something I've been thinking about a lot lately
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