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> hosted by an organization that many people consider highly ideological and politically divisive. Isn't your remark itself divisive? We should be paying atten
by lo_zamoyski 4y ago
> hosted by an organization that many people consider highly ideological and politically divisive.
Isn't your remark itself divisive? We should be paying attention to ideas and verifying them, not flirting with ad hominem. The last thing we need to encourage is more emotionalism and prejudice.
> It will make you appreciate that many societal problems we have today are... not new.
Indeed, as the famous passage from Ecclesiastes says, there nothing new under the sun. Another text worth reading is "The Republic" in which there is an analysis of the stages of political decadence which are also discernible in our own times[0][1].
[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562889060602916864.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562889060602916864.html
[1] https://americanmind.org/salvo/woke-ideology-is-a-psychological-disorder/ https://americanmind.org/salvo/woke-ideology-is-a-psychologi...
- cs702 4y ago> Isn't your remark itself divisive? I link to an easy-to-verify source, so, no, I don't think that remark is divisive. > We should be paying attention to ideas and verifying them, not flirting with ad hominem. The last thing we need to encourage is more emotionalism and prejudice. Couldn't agree more!