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Maybe instead of telling people to “go read into some of their politics” you can provide some examples and make the argument yourself?
by enraged_camel 4y ago
Maybe instead of telling people to “go read into some of their politics” you can provide some examples and make the argument yourself?
- abathur 4y agoThe "do your own research" meme works better when the initiator can make the target go refer to a corpus of questionable content (that is often already ideologically skewed), actively filter out whatever they find benign, and zero in on whatever lights up their confirmation bias.
- mpalmer 4y agoIt seems like you're trying to turn someone's objection to a weak argument into a weak argument itself by referring to it as an example of a "meme". I'm not sure I need to say anything else to be honest.
- abathur 4y agoSitting mighty high in the saddle for someone who didn't bother addressing anything I actually said. Edit: also unclear whether you realize I'm agreeing with the comment I responded to or not. /shrug
- kyrra 4y agoAdded a context link. Here it is for you https://www.wsj.com/articles/anticompetitive-woke-law-schools-aba-identity-politics-affirmative-action-11626364370 https://www.wsj.com/articles/anticompetitive-woke-law-school...
- malshe 4y agoThat’s an opinion piece like a blogpost
- kyrra 4y agoDoes it make it not true. Feel free to argue against it. Newspapers like New York times and WSJ require their opinion letters cite facts for statements they make. If the ABA is pushing woke curriculum on law schools, is that not the ABA being leftist with their policies? I'll save you some trouble, the ABA replied here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bar-association-aba-law-schools-woke-11626898295 https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-bar-association-aba-la...