https://twitter.com/PeterSinger/status/1723269850930491707

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Journal of Controversial Ideas

    This sounds like the name of a publication that posts articles promoting race science and Holocaust denial

    You asked me whether it is my view

    Yes, it absolutely is his view. Nobody who didn't think that would answer the question in such a way. He's saying yes, but he's too much of a coward to come right out and say it.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      (Cw: transphobia [big surprise])

      Let's have a look at the first issue!

      Are women 'adult human females'
      Is it ever appropriate to wear blackface?
      "Defending the defense of 'dumb ideas' on campus"

      Why would anyone with a finite lifespan waste their time on reading this dreck, much less writing it?

        • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Automatically assuming a public figure complaining about having 'controversial' opinions is using it as a smokescreen for bigotry has a remarkably high success rate.

          • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Because controversial idea don't get you canceled. The Last Jedi was good is controversial, people will argue with you but you won't be publicly lambasted. Actually blackface is cool is a little different

            • BeamBrain [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Something tells me this journal never publishes articles like "Why the proletariat should seize the means of production" or "In defense of expropriating the wealth of billionaires"