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Understand how "just asking questions" has been co-opted by a group so thoroughly, that its use of a rhetorical or dialogue device associates one's self to that
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
Understand how "just asking questions" has been co-opted by a group so thoroughly, that its use of a rhetorical or dialogue device associates one's self to that group. It's a well poisoned by bad faith.
Realize that people are generally able to tell the difference between authentic curiosity and Socratic-curiosity. The later, as you well know, involves asking leading questions to arrive at a predetermined destination whereas the former does not.
There's many more answers to this question, but leaving those there feels like a good enough place to start as any.
- yieldcrv 4y agocan you give an example? despite my meticulous wording, you/someone interpreted it as a defense of “just asking questions” when I didn’t say that or have an argument for that at all can you give an example of a compliant way to be curious? what about curious and not accepting of the new desired norm but open to understanding it more? its easy to not even know what/how to ask, that leads people to start a conversation based around a reaction to the change, the predictable pushback from looking the exact same as a bigot just radicalizes the person that said anything. so if you know a better uniform way, you can help prevent this
- rnk 4y agoIf you keep doing it over and over like Tucker Carlson, then it's clear it's wrong. He keeps asking questions as a way to push people to certain views. He's alarmist in these 'questions'. He asks them that way as a rhetorical strategy for things that are pretty controversial if he just said them. If you did it rarely but it was combined with observations and facts (not happening w Mr Carlson that much) there is a difference.