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Twitter is poison for academic debate. It is already impossible to discuss a complex matter over email—most nuance gets lost. Twitter is much worse, a) because
by periheli0n 4y ago
Twitter is poison for academic debate. It is already impossible to discuss a complex matter over email—most nuance gets lost. Twitter is much worse, a) because of the character limit, b) because of the crossfire that is a wild mix of relevant and irrelevant comments, plus pure trolling.
- qubex 4y agoIt’s got to the point where if I find myself in cordial debate with so,embody whose thesis I disagree with (in 280 character chunks at the time) I thank them for the debate. And that’s the thing: if you go into a conversation only to ‘right’ the other person’s views and are unwilling to revise/question yours then you’re not debating, you’re preaching… and there’s way too much of that already. Furthermore some of people are very ‘polite’ (in that they let you expound your views) but I’ve noticed many just wait for an option to lunch into their monologue. That isn’t debate either. It’s socially less jarring but in a way intellectually dishonest.