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on the contrary, I think it’s impossible to make moral progress if you can’t look back at sexist and racist philosophers and condemn them and the normativities of their time in some way otherwise what does “moral progress” actually fucking mean? how do we know it when we see it? twitter.com/sapinker/statu…
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Clearly anyone who is/was not a vegan has no moral or artistic authority and should be ignored. That's the obvious trend today. More controversial: will be in 100 yrs that anyone who had more than two kids was clearly an irresponsible hedonist, also to be ignored.
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There's also a third stance that neither black flag or Pinker is taking: we can admire the contributions of people who are tragically flawed, past (with moral hindsight) or present.
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to be clear(er), I’d walk this back from condemning the people as individuals, woke hysterics is not particularly useful if your goal is some kind of “measurable” moral progress nor do I really think it has to be as strong as a condemnation per se
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