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My comment was probably too snarky, but do we not have a duty to at least gently push back against our in-group labeling the out-group as stupid?
by satyrnein 6y ago
My comment was probably too snarky, but do we not have a duty to at least gently push back against our in-group labeling the out-group as stupid?
- Stupulous 6y agoThat's a good point, and I agree. But I do think it would be more pragmatic to justify why the outgroup isn't stupid than it is to go after the people who are saying so. The anger response you'll get for saying someone is arrogant probably won't get the open-mindedness you'll need to persuade someone to act differently. Even just pointing out that the word being said is 'stupid', but the actual in-group/out-group divide is technical literacy or systems-awareness. And really just in the frame of social media. Perhaps there should be a word to describe the local ignorance that everyone engages in when they are turned off and relaxing.