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For me, general and surprising things are coming in the form of "X doesn't seem to work". The reasoning goes like this: X is described like a good thing and a
by thriftwy 9y ago
For me, general and surprising things are coming in the form of "X doesn't seem to work".
The reasoning goes like this: X is described like a good thing and a lot of resources poured in it. But there are documented failures of X - are they spurious or causes by X not actually doing what is advertised?
More often than not the working answer "it probably doesn't work" which is often "a thing you can not say" due to general consensus, good feelings and above mentioned amount of resources poured in X.
- jakubp 9y agoCan you give examples of such things that probably don't work, but you can't say it if you don't want to be ostracized?
- thriftwy 9y agoFor example, Yugoslavia had what was described as the most progressive ethnic minorities policy in the world (regarding official languages use, representation of minorities, etc, etc), and then it violently fell apart in a series of ethnic conflicts.
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