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An issue with your reasoning is it can be liberally applied, including to your very own message. You provide no basis for discounting the opinion piece you disa
by regentbowerbird 3y ago
An issue with your reasoning is it can be liberally applied, including to your very own message. You provide no basis for discounting the opinion piece you disagree with other than projecting stuff you don't like onto it.. But anyone can do that to anyone.
- 0thgen 3y agoId agree with you here. I didn't offer any substantial criticism or engage with the articles points. I'm just throwing shade at articles with intense ideology-jargon, which isn't the best thing to do. However, do you think ideological language is a predictor of a valid, fact-based take on an issue, or the opposite? I'd be hard pressed to say "more ideology -> more empirical validity", but maybe they're orthogonal
- leshow 3y agoI would bet other things your read are laden with ideological language, you just don't notice because you've already decided you agree with it.
- 0thgen 3y agoSure, but that would still make it bad, right? I may be a hypocrite (for argument's sake), but that doesn't change whether being steeped in ideology is a bad thing. Would you agree? Or do you think being steeped in ideology leads to more rational decision making? (independent of whether ideology is needed for social mobilization)