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It is interesting that nobody discusses the psychology around bringing up the other sides perspective. Why do these discussions tend to be so NOT nuanced or ob
by mikem170 5y ago
It is interesting that nobody discusses the psychology around bringing up the other sides perspective.
Why do these discussions tend to be so NOT nuanced or objective? Each side has a different view of the same events, different populations are fed different propaganda. Why are we seeing certain stories in the news and not others? Why at this time? Why the aggressive downvotes at the mention of other perspectives, with replies kind of shouting back and forth? Isn't there anything to be gained examining things from both sides? etc
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThere's too many discussions in the past that have gone bad. I mean, there are too many times when the subject is what China is doing in Xinjiang, and people bring up slavery or US militarism or whatever, not because they want to compare and contrast and learn, but because they want to distract from an honest discussion of what China is doing in Xinjiang. And the exact same thing happens on the other side, for the same reasons. Try to talk about US militarism, and people bring up China and Xinjiang. So when you're in a discussion about one side of that, and someone brings up the other side of that, the priors lean toward it being bad faith. Because there has been so much bad faith in the past, it's hard to believe that someone bringing it up now is doing so in good faith. If you want to actually have that discussion, you almost certainly can't do it in a thread that started off talking about one side or the other. You'd have to begin in a neutral place. (I don't know if you can pull it off even there...)