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Is that request not a call to cancel cancel-culture?
by ISL 6y ago
Is that request not a call to cancel cancel-culture?
- holtalanm 6y agoi see we are in a conundrum.
- ISL 6y agoUnderstanding apparent paradoxes seems like an important place to start. The best history/government teacher I had in school had a recurring throughline for our classes. Paraphrasing: "It is better, in the long run, to be for something than against something." To be against something is to highlight a problem. To be for something is to offer a possible direction for the future.
- holtalanm 6y agoo.0 I like that a lot.
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- Der_Einzige 6y agoThat belief is directly hostile to critical thinking. Critical thinking is the ability to critique - specifically, to explain what is wrong or bad about a particular system.
- mooseburger 6y agoCritical thinking is supposed to be just one tool, everyone should have more than that in their mental toolbox. It's useless on its own, we need the capacity to build systems more than we need the ability to tear them down. It's also even harmful when only applied selectively (e.g. never to one's own, or to popular, positions(s)).
- Nasrudith 6y agoI see it more as acknowledging limitations. Critical thinking is a filter as opposed to a source. Besides because something isn't as good as another doesn't make something bad. A good new idea or appeoach and critical thinking is better than just a good new idea and can guide the approach. They aren't mutually exclusive.
- vorpalhex 6y agoNo, that would be if we called cancel-culture racist and anyone who perpetuated it a white supremacist. By assigning moral outrage to one side of the debate, we remove the pretense of a debate. It's no longer about evidence and facts but vilifying one side. It's ad hominem 2.0 if you will, and it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels. The problem is that pavlovian-esque training can be untrained. If you call everyone who does something you don't like a nazi, then pretty soon it doesn't seem like being a nazi is all that big of a deal. That in itself is bad because by abusing the term you buy cover for actual, literal nazis. The same issue applies when you label everything racist or sexist or otherwise. Words have power, but that power can fade if misused.
- hsod 6y agoCalling them dangerous and a pox on society seems in the same ballpark of moral outrage as calling someone racist.
- Nasrudith 6y agoMore the pox on society than dangerous per se. Dangerous is a big category with nuance while always advising caution. A car which works perfectly can be dangerous but a car which randomly catches on fire without warning is also dangerous. That nuance allows for far more room for debate.
- DagAgren 6y ago> it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels. Do you know why we have that reaction? Because of millions upon millions of dead, innocent humans. That is what those ideologies lead to. We learned this lesson once, and we learned it very well. We don't want that to happen again. We don't want to let those ideas spread again. We don't want to see the mass graves again they lead to again. We learned that. Some people have forgotten, though.
- monoideism 6y agoSome people remember the horror of Nazi Germany as well as the horror of the Red Terror, Stalinist Russia, and the Cultural Revolution.
- traverseda 6y agoTolerant of everything except intolerance et-all.