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How disagreements used to happen: I think [idea]. Here's my evidence. How they happen now: Speaking as a [member in X class], I believe [idea]. We've started
by remarkEon 9y ago
How disagreements used to happen: I think [idea]. Here's my evidence.
How they happen now: Speaking as a [member in X class], I believe [idea].
We've started to tie up our identities into our arguments, and when you do that you can't get around attacking who someone is as a person when they link their membership in a group to the epistemology of why they think something. This is my working theory for why people have started to equate speech with "literally violence". Disagreeing has become an attack on their identity, so it's only natural to interpret that in an extreme form.
- jacalata 9y agoSo, where is your evidence that people used to have more evidence based discussions? How does it reconcile the historic role of religion in guiding the average person's beliefs and politics? Hell, how does it reconcile the historic prevalence of religion?
- xxXXxx- 9y agoYou have a very, very misguided view of the past, we have always tied up our identities into our arguments. In fact, I would say less so now than in the past not moreso.
- mLuby 9y agoit's perhaps misguided, but not very, very misguided. hyperbole fuels the mob.
- xxXXxx- 9y agoHyperbole? The definition of hyperbole is "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally." My statement is not hyperbole, it was not at all exaggerated is meant to be taken literally. People have gone to war over this shit.
- observation 9y agoI miss the days when nobody used their real name online and certainly didn't attach photos of their face to it. Most of us would be better off if we went back to those days, I expect a lot of HN users already don't have social media profiles.