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It's gotten to the point where people going out of their way to say they support this sort of talk are kind of weird. You didn't have to make that your headline
by nathanvanfleet 4y ago
It's gotten to the point where people going out of their way to say they support this sort of talk are kind of weird. You didn't have to make that your headline, but you decided to make it that. You could have just said you think what he is saying is problematic etc, if you disagree with them you can say you disagree.
- ChainOfFools 4y ago"go there-ism." As if someone is saying "see that paradoxical/hostile bit of mental terrain over there? I can go there. _Ordinary_ people can't go there, but _I_ can. I have (for progressives) the exceptional acrobatic courageous flexibility / (for conservatives) the unbreakble mental backbone necessary to occupy and even defend a place that others can't tolerate even contemplating from a distance. " wish I had a better term for this specific flavor of one-upsmanship, but it's creeping into dialog more and more on a lot of fronts, from a lot of different corners of society. I have a hunch that the boom in podcasting is a symptom and also an aggravating cause. People have given up on talking to each other, and now prefer to broadcast at each other.