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Notable that this tweet is essentially trying to punish me for discouraging antisocial behavior. "The antidote to bad speech is more speech" doesn't work if you literally go out of your way to try and stop consequences from happening to people who deserve them.
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thread but another lesson you might take is that there are lots of things you dont know as much about and you're being constantly taken in by confidently stated crap so maybe have a little humility for yourself too you know there but for the grace of God and all twitter.com/jd_pressman/st…
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I understand the point you were making about epistemic humility and recognising your own blindspots - but “there but for the grace of God” seems to be doing a lot of work towards discouraging actively calling out confidently stated morally righteous bad takes
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everyone thinks that about their favorite topic and they're not really wrong either but there is no fix for it - twitter is a global communications channel and our social firmware interprets the mildest disagreement as social punishment
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