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My theory is that the 'woke' have trouble distinguishing between the legitimately intolerant folks they oppose, who are not looking for any good faith expressio
by rootusrootus 5y ago
My theory is that the 'woke' have trouble distinguishing between the legitimately intolerant folks they oppose, who are not looking for any good faith expression of free speech, and other people who don't agree with them but are in fact making a good faith attempt to discuss it.
The situation isn't helped by the continued existence of bad faith 'free speech' trolls. That's probably by design.
- csee 5y agoI wouldn't assume good faith. There have been psych studies on virtue signallers and victim signallers, and they found much higher levels of narcissism and psychopathy than in the general population.
- rootusrootus 5y agoSure, but I think assuming bad faith is a big contributor to how we ended up in this mess to begin with. So I assume good faith as much as I can, until I have a convincing reason to believe otherwise.
- csee 5y agoThe study is convincing reason to believe otherwise. Not in any one specific case, but in terms of understanding where the phenomenon comes from in general.