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This is a good point. It is true in life and particularly true on twitter that you don't get to ask questions without people imputing a motive. Frankly, it doe

by lukev 8y ago

This is a good point. It is true in life and particularly true on twitter that you don't get to ask questions without people imputing a motive. Frankly, it does sound here like he is (at best) uninformed about the emotional experience of sexual assault survivors (irrelevant to the specific case of Dr. Ford), or at worst a partisan hack. He should spend less time publicly digging into the motivations of those he has "offended" and more time introspecting on whether he is actually in fact a being of pure logic who can perceive all from a position completely uninfluenced by his personal history and experience.

weaksauce 8y ago
> uninformed about the emotional experience of sexual assault survivors (irrelevant to the specific case of Dr. Ford) She stated that she was pretty emotionally torn up because of that attempt for many years after the event. I'm not sure how an attempted rape is irrelevant to her emotional well being. an attempted mugging is nearly as emotionally draining as a successful one I'd wager... there is still a violation in trust there.
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zepto 8y ago
What do you think the motivations of the people he has offended actually are?
- lukev 8y ago
  I'm quite certain that (correctly or incorrectly) the perception was that he was engaging in bad-faith rhetoric: "just asking questions" or similar. Like it or not, you can't just transparently "ask a question" on Twitter. Even Robin admits in the original post to not being transparent about his motives when conducting twitter polls. Add in the fact that 95% of everything on Twitter is already posturing or naked assertions and it's not surprising that people reacted badly. The priors for a given tweet being a good-faith effort at discourse are very very poor, and his tone/style was doing him no favors.
  - zepto 8y ago
    I agree with you that people will impute motives, like it or not. I also agree that his tone and style are doing him no favors. I’m less sure about whose priors for his tweets you are talking about, since that depends on how much you know about him and what you think of it. But I am still curious what you think the motivations of the people he offended actually are? What do you think they are trying to do?

by lukev 8y ago

weaksauce 8y ago

> uninformed about the emotional experience of sexual assault survivors (irrelevant to the specific case of Dr. Ford) She stated that she was pretty emotionally torn up because of that attempt for many years after the event. I'm not sure how an attempted rape is irrelevant to her emotional well being. an attempted mugging is nearly as emotionally draining as a successful one I'd wager... there is still a violation in trust there.

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zepto 8y ago

What do you think the motivations of the people he has offended actually are?

lukev 8y ago
I'm quite certain that (correctly or incorrectly) the perception was that he was engaging in bad-faith rhetoric: "just asking questions" or similar. Like it or not, you can't just transparently "ask a question" on Twitter. Even Robin admits in the original post to not being transparent about his motives when conducting twitter polls. Add in the fact that 95% of everything on Twitter is already posturing or naked assertions and it's not surprising that people reacted badly. The priors for a given tweet being a good-faith effort at discourse are very very poor, and his tone/style was doing him no favors.
- zepto 8y ago
  I agree with you that people will impute motives, like it or not. I also agree that his tone and style are doing him no favors. I’m less sure about whose priors for his tweets you are talking about, since that depends on how much you know about him and what you think of it. But I am still curious what you think the motivations of the people he offended actually are? What do you think they are trying to do?