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It would be useful to put together a taxonomy of error modes that a social issue can have when it becomes famous. For example, accusing the victim of faking it
by javajosh 6y ago
It would be useful to put together a taxonomy of error modes that a social issue can have when it becomes famous. For example, accusing the victim of faking it ("crisis actors"), accusing protestors of overreacting ("thugs"), claiming that protestors have foreign elements making things worse ("auslander thugs"), and of course claiming that nothing happened to begin with, or the evidence for the claim was faked. No doubt this is a very long list, limited only by human rhetorical ingenuity.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoSome claims are fake, though. Your strategy for distinguishing between true and false claims can't just be "oh I've identified that as an error mode".
- javajosh 6y agoOh I didn't say anything about truth value of the error mode! That's a different matter. I just think its remarkable how creative humans are when it comes to being sneaky.
- jmspring 6y agoHere is a photo. Food Not Bombs is a broader organization, but Keith McHenry, a founder of FNB, will do everything to promote his agenda atop of what is popular - https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/101659755_10222370868330582_9004543148180897792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&_nc_sid=ca434c&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=QhBaGiPGmeQAX8IMg1T&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&_nc_tp=14&oh=8fec22aadfacc4068839fa5f5e417421&oe=5EF8F30C https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65...