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I've always had an undercurrent of "we just need to try to understand each other" with people I disagree with. Forever. But I'm starting to feel myself losing it with the woke infection. I'm watching myself shut down and curl up and go "actually no just go away." 1/

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Is there some way you can quickly assess with accuracy whether someone sending very small woke signals is actually very "infected", hopefully without taking too much mental damage yourself? A strategy like that could help your problem

Aella

@Aella_Girl

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@developdignitas

I generally trust subconscious pattern recognition - the things that you naturally find yourself experiencing revulsion to in people are probably things your pattern recognition has tagged as a dangerous correlation.

3:12 AM · Aug 7, 2020

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Yea if that's working, you'll just have to live with accidentally filtering the x% of exceptions to the subconscious filtering. not ideal but that's what happens when there's costs for interaction and talking isn't free.

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I think your subconscious filtering generally tends to adjust for that; as in it updates more the longer it takes to find an exception.

@flancian@social.coop

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Aug 7, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

This seems dangerous, could yield pretty much the opposite of rational thought. One data point: the one other person I saw espousing "what is repugnant to you is bad, trust your gut" here in a Twitter was an actual fascist (someone that wanted to "supress and eliminate queers").

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While I was seeking understanding and common ground, time and time again, it became apparent that I was in discussion with friends who simply wanted to “win”, to “be right”, and to exercise some degree of control or power over others. No longer interested. And I tried a lot.

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