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Faik Kurtulmus
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Political philosopher at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Working on distributive epistemic justice, political philosophy of science & freedom of expression.

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A bar chart titled 'Prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants, 2021, 2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 100 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants for both years. Turkey stands out with the highest figures, exceeding 300 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants in both 2021 and 2022, significantly above the EU average.
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Here are two data points to put their bravery in perspective:
A bar chart titled 'Police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, average 2020-2022' displays data for various European countries. The EU average is represented as a bar around 350 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. Turkey stands out with one of the highest figures, exceeding 600 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants, significantly above the EU average. O
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Sophie Smith at the LRB, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But speaking up isn’t easy and the hard distinction between the ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’, makes these conversations even more difficult. Patriarchy does not mean that men cannot act decently, and kindly, indeed that the men in our lives may not sometimes be better and more reliable than the women. But it does mean that there are no men, no people, who can ever claim to be entirely beyond its reach. It is always there in the background, incentivising, rewarding and giving cover to good men who decide, however briefly, not to be. The point here is not that all men are rapists-in-waiting, nor that all women who put their trust in men are at risk. The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw. (It is not just women who suffer here: consider the man who really does just want to read to his daughter.) How many women have wondered whether a behaviour should be interpreted as a warning or instead as something they can safely ignore – perhaps even participate in and enjoy? Women in this situation are not helped by the tendency of men to get defensive, to use their comparative ‘goodness’ (‘I’m not that guy’) to shut down these conversations. (Many French men have expressed fury at the attempt to use Dominique Pelicot to start a national conversation about sexism.) It is certainly possible that the man who gets off on ‘sleeping girl’ porn or who sleeps with much younger women is not a creep. But if he is not to be, then might he need to be the guy who takes this sceptical scenario seriously, who is open to a conversation about where these desires might come from and what they might mean? If t
January 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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And I've known colleagues like this:
Text reads: There are people who just kind of wait for their opponent to get carpal tunnel — and that's not productive for anyone.
December 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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This puts department meetings into perspective:
Text reads: Editing can seem incredibly inefficient sometimes, given that Wikipedia is so democratic and anyone can enter into any discussion. Take the page for yogurt. The debate over whether to call it “yogurt” or “yoghurt” lasted seven years and totaled over 140,000 words. What happened there specifically, and what makes the process so inefficient in general?
December 25, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Nobody does snide as good as Brian Barry.
January 17, 2024 at 1:19 PM