Truly the day when libertarians could no longer troll the left by suggesting that income redistribution and "sex redistribution" are similar and comparing a mass killing to the June Uprising was when free inquiry died.https://twitter.com/patrissimo/status/990760719237853185 …
If you think that was trolling, you don't understand how Robin thinks. And if you don't understand how the ability to hypothesize freely is crucial to scientific inquiry...you're demonstrating that free inquiry is in poor shape. We need a return to U. Chicago norms.
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Yeah comparing incels to French revolutionaries would have been eviscerated at a U Chicago seminar in much harsher terms than anything he's been subject to so far
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Eviscerated for any errors, of course, as it should be. But never would it have been mocked as inconsiderate or read to mean he's "creepy". The idea would be evaluated on its accuracy, not its degree of snowflake-melting heat. At least in the old days - I've been away 20+ years.
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It can also be eviscerated for being morally repugnant - either in its premises or it's conclusions. Creepy in this context seems to mean "downplaying the moral severity of rape and violence against women"
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The idea that in order to have an academic debate we have to completely suspend our moral convictions is false. The slate piece considered his arguments and the complaint seems to be mostly about "tone"
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Finally he posted it on his blog. Nothing to stop him from not participating in the public and just writing academic pieces through normal channels. It you can't stand the heat etc etc
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