Iconoclast

Editor of Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars.

[Iconoclast @IconoclastWars]

@ConceptualJames @SwipeWright Language, and by extension taxonomy, is not something that is ‘unnatural’. There can be however more or less useful or accurate taxonomies. The development of classification is is our way of communicating effectively with each other and understanding the world.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

Downright Dangerous Opinions | Peter Boghossian & Lionel Shriver https://t.co/qreYTgpbSd

[Iconoclast @IconoclastWars]

@PeterSinger Would other effective altruism projects be beneficial to Indigenous remote communities (I know there is the Fred Hollows Foundation). What barriers are there to setting up effective altruism in these communities?

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@RoadknightThe Sutton and Walshe’s ‘Farmers or Hunter-Gathers’ is a direct repudiation of Dark Emu - hard to come back from such a comprehensive critique.

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@ErnieDingo1 @vyvyanbstd Dja Dja

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@peterboghossian It’s called deindividuation. It was first identified when looking at the dynamics of militias and lynch mobs.

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@peterboghossian Thanks @peterboghossian appreciate your support.

[Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian]

Australian psychologist Mark Halloran, Ph.D., has published a collection of essays about the current culture war.

He's graciously allowed me to publish my chapter, "Postmodernism and the Failure of Moral Triage," on my Substack: https://t.co/LBRIfstvQR

[Iconoclast @IconoclastWars]

@Anthonywodillon I seem to remember John Howard quoting Noel Pearson writing for The Australian in ‘Lazarus Rising’ in defence of his own Indigenous policies. Another biblical reference.

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https://t.co/8tDnFJovr2

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

"Most of the young people who are now declaring themselves trans are not trans..." .@HeatherEHeying shares a piece first published in 'Iconclast', an anthology edited by Mark Halloran (@IconoclastWars), PhD, and published by Academica Press in 2022.
https://t.co/1YMZyphyyM

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@HeatherEHeying Thanks for your contribution to https://t.co/VzcuNuEW8o @HeatherEHeying. Given that trans is real (i.e., genetic) and rare, then is medical intervention at least sometimes warranted in these rare cases?

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Me, She, He, They, by @HeatherEHeying https://t.co/jkbwaYS0xM

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A still pertinent interview with @Anthonywodillon in regards to BLM and Aboriginal deaths in custody. https://t.co/tzEwsDL8CV

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@GadSaad for https://t.co/VzcuNuEW8o: 'When you actually try to challenge people with "Can you give me five reasons why you
hate Trump?" They’ll respond with: "He disgusts me, he’s a brawler, he’s vulgar." So, they are using peripheral cues to judge him. It’s not substantive.'

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@HeatherEHeying writing for https://t.co/5VpJVMG5SL: 'Sex is real and ubiquitous. Trans is real, but extremely rare. In the 21st century WEIRD world however, both of those points are increasingly taken as hostile to individual autonomy.'

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In conversation with @peterboghossian for https://t.co/5VpJVMp2QL: 'I will say that there was a lot of truth to the idea that if you can control - this is kind of Orwellian in a sense - if you can control the language, you can control people’s cognitions.'

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In conversation with @peterboghossian on cultural appropriation: 'Some white people had a taco stand (in Portland) and people went crazy because they culturally appropriated Mexican food... I mean that's a fucking derangement.' https://t.co/nGqn2vk0ru

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In conversation with the indefatigable @GadSaad in regards to nomological networks, gender differences and the replication crisis in psychology. https://t.co/oUm8JWfwFx

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@coldxman It’s interesting because the author of this article Stan Grant once wrote an excellent essay on the legal complexities of identity and yet he now seems to have succumbed to the type of identity politics he warned about in that very essay.