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You find yourself in a community of people who all share an ideology you strongly disagree with and find abhorrent. Would you be able, if you had to, to successfully masquerade as one of them, including as an active participant in discussions, without being found out?

Absolutely not
18.9%
Maybe?
34.8%
Very likely yes
46.3%

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7:06 AM · Feb 19, 2021

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Depends on the ideology, but for some absolutely yes.

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OMG I have extensive first-hand experience of this, growing up as a Jewish kid in a functionally anti-semitic country. My family passed just fine. Which is why I'm here now. AMA?

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Be able, yes. Be willing, no. Execute me.

Misha Gurevich, Photographer, VC, Wives 0/1

@drethelin

Feb 19, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

What if it’s all preference falsification?

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If I had a gun to my head....

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nah

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Absolutely not... probably I'll be keep my mouth shut.

Montmorillonite Miner

@HassLiebe777

Feb 19, 2021

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@Aella_Girl

I'm not even really in such a community anymore but I still find myself memorizing all the new lefty shibboleths out of habit. Probably a good skill to keep honed if you don't know where things are going.

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I'm too much of a smart ass

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I could probably talk the talk, but my poker face is pretty rubbish, so I’d do much better in a text-only medium than face to face, where I might not be able to conceal my disgust and scorn.