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At a glance this looks like just lengthy prose trying to position conservative ideas as the intellectual middle ground.
by b_tterc_p 7y ago
At a glance this looks like just lengthy prose trying to position conservative ideas as the intellectual middle ground.
- Nasrudith 7y agoI am not sure why it is downvoted - it is a commonly used tactic of the right dating back at least to "teach the controversy" for creationists and climate change deniers to try to legitimize themselves through a golden mean fallacy.
- lliamander 7y agoWhy is it downvoted? * because it's a low-effort comment that contains crass generalizations. * because Haidt et. al. are not right-wing partisan hacks, but bona fide liberals.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoI don’t see where I was crass. Nor do I think it’s especially low effort relative to the quality of the content. Much of the post is a recurring tactic of: stating a fairly tame conservative view, extrapolating that since liberals shut down some conservative views that they will shut down even the most nuanced ones, implying that therefore the ones trying to be reasonable are the conservatives. It’s... bad. I don’t know or care who Haidt is it what his rep is