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Helen Pluckrose

@hpluckrose

Still just wanting you to value evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal principles. Contact me at [email protected]

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How can I be clearer that this is the issue for me and always has been? If you believe my ultimate issue is defeating the woke & that I am happy to do this with liberal or illiberal means, you are simply mistaken. I'm not hiding my true aims. You just didn't read my bio.

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Yes, that could be argued, but you'd struggle to show why letting same sex attracted people commit to each other openly would make everything rotten. Imaginary counterfactual scenarios & slippery slope "BUT THEN PEOPLE WILL MARRY DOGS" arguments won't cut it.

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Well, we can't go back and change our minds about what the evolution of postmodern thought into wokeness looks like now & unpublish our writings & books on the subject so nobody notices that the same mentality & epistemology also apply to elements of the right.

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Ultimately, yes, but the one "You must not (impose your beliefs on other people)" of liberalism is the least coercive system possible. All the others have many "You musts" as well. We only compel you to leave other people alone.

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Well, no, that's not how we defined it & if we had understood it that way, we'd never have got anything published in their journals and been able to show what the problem was and how it worked, because there's a bit more to it than that re: mentality & epistemology.

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Yeah, it relies on it corresponding with reality. It's not my specialised definition. I didn't create the theories & a whole industry out of them. I just helped show it to exist & explain it. If people use 'woke' to mean 'left' they are wrong & being wrong won't help fix it.