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"the left seems to be refusing to accept that coercing people to act a certain way does not actually change what people believe." I know coercion is not enough
by ReactiveJelly 6y ago
"the left seems to be refusing to accept that coercing people to act a certain way does not actually change what people believe."
I know coercion is not enough, but it's the only thing that can be pushed by the people with power to push anything.
As soon as I find out what _will_ change beliefs, I'd like to start doing it. Assuming that, as an individual, I _can_ do anything at all. But breaking up the radicalization pipelines is better than nothing.
- jchw 6y agoThis assumes that there are no serious negative externalities to the scorched earth mentality. It’s easy to assume nothing serious could go wrong; I disagree, I think it could potentially be very harmful, and I wish we didn’t have to find out how that might happen. Of course I am not actually against every time someone gets deplatformed; I think it is reasonable from a community standpoint to, for example, ban the doomsday cult garbage. That’s not a matter of banned opinion to me, even though it leans on a gray area.