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"The reason I left [my pre-transition videos] up is because I dont see Philosophy Tube as being about me, its a bigger mission about education and peoples relationship to knowledge that I am trying to live up to."
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Abigail ThornIt’s not so much that I need a reason not to have my privacy invaded, — Abigail Thorn
"It’s not so much that I need a reason not to have my privacy invaded, it’s that somebody else should have a reason to do it. That’s kind of the point. That’s surely what it means for something to be “none of your business”. And yet, to refuse the search is to immediately mark oneself out as suspicious, as concealing something that is in fact somebody else’s business, because of the security-logic presumption that everyone is guilty until proven innocent."
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Abigail Thorn
Abigail Thorn
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Abigail Thorn is an English YouTuber, actress, and playwright. Thorn created the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube in 2013, when she sought to provide free lessons in philosophy in the wake of the 2012 increase in university tuition fees in England. In 2018, her videos became more theatrical, beginning to incorporate dramatic studio sets, lighting, costuming and makeup. The channel has been positive
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"Transhumanism makes a great conspiracy costume. Theres always a lot of tech news so you can rip stuff straight from the headlines about Elon Musk putting computers in monkeys and itll get clicks. Its also not explicitly religious or racial. If you just come out the gate and say "Jews are planning to exterminate Christian white people!" then a lot of folks will go "Yeah? Allreet, on your bike Adolf!" but if you frame it as Elites are planning transhumanism, then at least some people will go, Wait, really? and you can always add the hardcore stuff later once youve got their attention."
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"The other problem with saying that people like that are just a product of their time is that not everyone at that time did think like that, and it kinda lets them off the hook. A lot of people thought that slavery was okay, but you know what: The slaves didn’t. And they said so, pretty loudly and often. So if other people thought that slavery was alright, it wasn’t ‘cause they didn’t know, it’s because they chose not to listen to that. They chose not to know."
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"Racism is a full-blown normative theory in its own right. Writing it off as just “hate” which needs “love” to combat it can be a little bit reductionist; it can stop us from understanding it."
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"The nature of being raised in the way that I was, its like, you get told you will be the future leaders of the world and then you get there and you find out the world is not enough."
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"I did kind of construct a masculinity out of the best bits of every man that I could find, like the best bits of my brothers and my dad and the best bits of the Bond movies. I tried to do the man of the 21st century thing and, absolutely on it and woke but also compassionate and fun and charming and sexy and all the rest of it and with the muscles and the beard and, I tried to do all of it and it all made me sort of miserable really."
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