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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
29 Aug 2018 24 published claims 2 attributable people
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“Jonathan Haidt has identified about seven victims’ groups who are entitled to feel offended and slighted over sort of microaggressions: women, blacks, Muslims, I think indigenous or native peoples, LGBT, and perhaps immigrants would be another one.”
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“I think there’s a difference between political correctness and being left-wing. I think one can be left-wing and not be politically correct.”
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“I think the sensible left is necessary and important, and people advocating for marginalized groups, and particularly lower socioeconomic groups, is very important.”
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“You’d have to assess a piece of writing on a case-by-case basis, but I think some of the best writing that is coming out at the moment is by people under pen names.”
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“I think anyone who’s cynical or disenchanted — if you can come up with creative ways to .”
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“I don’t know. Simply stop trying to work within established structures such as the world of media or world of higher education and split off.”
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“If I think about Australian intellectuals, from my great distance in Fairfax, Virginia, they seem to me more left-wing than American intellectuals.”
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“I think for people who want to be clinical psychologists and working with actual clients, which is not all psychologists, but for people who want to be clinical psychologists, they should start working in a mental health setting much earlier on.”
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“I think the performative nature of transgenderism itself should allow a woman like Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender person.”
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“One of our deputy prime ministers, John Anderson, has been having conversations with people from around the world like Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt, and I think he’s really trying to move discourse in a more intellectual, open .”
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“I’d have to look at the data and the numbers to make an accurate judgment, but I think that classical liberalism is very strong at the moment through the Internet, and then the nationalists, people who identify as right-wing, but are opposed to free trade dogmas and who want to question immigration, basically.”
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“Zimmermann is a great brand, which is known all over the world, but I don’t know what it is about them that’s particularly Australian.”
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“You either have it or you don’t, I think, but you can fine-tune certain techniques, and articulate your vision more clearly, and that kind of thing.”
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“If I think of the comparative histories of Australia and New Zealand with regard to political correctness, I have the sense New Zealand gets there first.”
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“I think the fact that they’re public makes a big difference because students are not paying vast sums to go to university in the first place, so students have less power.”
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“I think having social norms that frown upon racism and sexism are very important and useful.”
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“A norm will either be too tough or not tough enough.” And they say, “I’d rather the norms against racists, in a sense, be too tough and maybe catch some cases that don’t deserve to be caught because that’s the only choice we have.”
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“If one can understand statistics and read scientific papers and can couch arguments in a scientifically literate way, then their skills are going to be in demand, I think, because there’s just a scarcity of people who can do that at the moment.”
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“I think libertarians have been because they’re very rationalist and systematizing, they’re skeptical of the utility of narratives and manipulating people’s emotions.”
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“It matters because people who go through elite colleges and go into the professions, particularly in journalism and law, are often trained and inculcated with these theories.”
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“Another aspect is that we also have very high-skilled immigration. It’s very noticeable that our immigrant communities are filling up professions and are very hardworking, and have immediately gone into the highest income brackets because we poach a lot of very talented people from all over the world to come out to Australia.”
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“I think the setting up of women’s studies departments in the 1970s was a big mistake because, if you look at other humanities disciplines, they’ve been developed over hundreds of years, and they developed scholarly foundations.”
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“There are things in psychology in the therapy side of things that could be quite effective that we don’t know about because we can’t accurately measure.”
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“Among transgender individuals, only a small percentage of those are activist. So it’s the tiniest minority you can think of, but they have all of this political power because they’re very noisy.”
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