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Id 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-j
by 0thgen 3y ago
Id 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)