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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
by 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 agoI 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?