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I’ve known people like this, and people who assume that those people are making claims when they are in fact, asking questions, are projecting. Specifically, pe
by gfodor 7y ago
I’ve known people like this, and people who assume that those people are making claims when they are in fact, asking questions, are projecting. Specifically, people who are unable to take questions at face value are often people who are good at using language that is in the form of a question to give commands or state claims (typical in politics for example.)
(For anyone that reading, no, my observation here is not making a claim about the justness of the treatment of RMS, if you can’t see that upon a re-read you too may be projecting.)
- DSingularity 7y agoWhat a confusing sentence. Are you saying the people who at mischaracterizing observations as claims are doing so because they are projecting their own positions?
- gfodor 7y agoNo, I'm saying that they themselves use questions as a way to direct or claim, and so, when they encounter a person asking a question that could be interpreted in that way, they project their own behavior onto that person even if the person has no ulterior purpose to the question. For example, "Do you think we should fix this bug?" can be a directive from your boss to fix the bug if they are this kind of person. If you respond "I'm not sure, is it related to work I did?" could be interpreted as a claim that it's not related to work you did, vs an actual question. The best way to deal with this kind of thing if you are the questioner is to try to craft questions in a way that they are not able to be re-framed as non-questions, but its challenging to do so on the fly.