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>(recent examples "vaccines are a good idea" and "I like the idea of my local shops being a 15 minute walk away") Statistically nobody considers those things o
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>(recent examples "vaccines are a good idea" and "I like the idea of my local shops being a 15 minute walk away")
Statistically nobody considers those things offensive on face value. It's the nuts and bolts of the implementations and adjacent more extreme positions they can sometimes be dog-whistling for that piss some people off.
You're complicating things that don't need to be complicated by picking examples like that where something that is potentially offensive or not on its face value would have sufficed.
- ben_w 4y ago> Statistically nobody considers those things offensive on face value. Even if this were the case (and politicians repeating them indicates otherwise) the absolute number is what actually matters for human interactions — over Dunbar's number and it "feels like" everyone's against you, and that's less than 200 people.