One thing I hate is "It's not the job of the marginalized to educate you." I hate it so much. Fuck that idea. It shuts down conversations, it demands submission and humiliation from the listener, is generally disrespectful, and cuts short increases in knowledge and connection.
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I think people have more obligation to defend their views when they're on the attack. I don't think blogger X is obligated to recite the same counter ad-nauseum to every rando who demands it. I wouldn't lump all "not my job" defenses together necessarily.
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But it also makes perfect sense. Putting the onus on victims to make you see why the perpetrator is wrong imposes an undue burden on them.
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But it assumes I'm the perpetrator. It assumes I am hurting someone. Which, like, *possibly* I am, but I'm not going to simply agree with that as a base assumption starting point in a conversation.
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A different perspective might show that we all have something to teach and to learn from one another.
Just by happenstance, I have an understanding of how we can end poverty and promote sustainability: Charge fees to industries ~ pollution put, resources depleted; share proceeds
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Frustrating as it may be when you are genuinely interested, they are right. Think they have to deal with trolls all the time, and many times their questions are ill-intentioned or one quick google search away.
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It's a "I'm going to blather unsubstantiated nonsense at you, how dare you not blindly accept it" move.
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Burden of proof is on you, if you demand change in a (huge) majority, to at least bother explaining why.
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"Epistemic exploitation" they call it - philpapers.org/rec/NOREE-2 . Feminist epistemology is a hell of a drug.
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Yeah, in the case of someone who's like, really being hounded by someone to explain a thing, I can see an expectation of engagement being tiring/annoying.
But 90+% of the time I see that line used it's just someone asking a reasonable question in response to something.
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