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It's harder to be a dissident than ever because everything has been politically weaponized and the public discourse is absolutely saturated with bad faith argum
by api 3y ago
It's harder to be a dissident than ever because everything has been politically weaponized and the public discourse is absolutely saturated with bad faith argument.
- monero-xmr 3y agoI have a lot of opinions but I have to post them anonymously or my life’s work will be destroyed. I’m hopeful that once I retire and move all my income-generating assets to a trust that I can advocate more for my opinions. People in my city have had their retail businesses destroyed for donating to Republicans. It’s just a very dangerous world to say anything so you have to be very careful.
- gochi 3y agoWhy do you think they should be free of consequences for their actions?
- monero-xmr 3y agoIn a world where there are only 2 political parties, and supporting the wrong one is life-destroying, the only way to win is not to play. It is unfortunate.
- xqcgrek2 3y agoA lot of people are in this situation.
- stonogo 3y agoAre we talking about the same country? Supporting a specific party is "life-destroying"? Tell me, is it the one in control of the House or the one in control of the Senate?
- xqcgrek2 3y agoIt is definitely life-destroying if one is wedded to a specific industry or academia. Certainly career ending for some jobs.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago"I want to work in field X, and I believe Y" "But most people in field X believe that Y is crazy talk, and there's literature going back 127 years explaining why they have come to that conclusion" "Sure, but they won't be nice to me if I try to work in field X" "Right, but that's because they believe, and can explain why, they think you're crazy" "They are destroying my life".
- hotdogscout 3y agoYou greatly exaggerated how rational leftists or religious people are. (DAE do "cancelling"?). I've attended classes as a listener where the professor was lecturing about how attempts to go to space are just modern equivalents of racist White Colonialism. I don't think there's a limit to how stupid people in supposedly high positions in society can be.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoIt's not the contents of a belief that makes it ridiculous. It's the behavior of the person espousing the belief. I can imagine an entirely rational and quite deep argument regarding whether or not attempts to go to space are just modern equivalents of White Colonialism. And I might not agree with one or all sides of such an argument, but they are not prima facie ridiculous. What makes them ridiculous is a failure to engage with counter-points, a failure to grapple with reasonably established facts that conflict with the stated position, and a failure to engage in falsification (i.e. "well, if X and Y, then clearly my position would be wrong"). Someone who can do those things on behalf of their stated position deserves respect, but someone who cannot deserves much less.
- finite_depth 3y agoThis is the real underlying problem. Discussion is a commons. It relies on trust and symmetric cooperation. When those things are betrayed, the commons breaks down.