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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I've been enjoying seeing people make fun of this tweet and not being able to tell if they're woke or alt-right before clicking their profile; it's basically a toss up. This does update me a bit more in the direction of the two being similar.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
In my mind, alt-right stuff is roughly equivalent to the woke stuff, just on the other extreme. I don't know how true this is, or how much my reasoning comes from a "things are equal tho aren't they?" fallacy. What kind of evidence should I be looking for to prove/disprove this?
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DemocraticDespotism
@DemocraticDesp1
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@Aella_Girl
Well you’re bound to get weird responses when you ask a question that doesn’t even really have a clear meaning. What does equal mean hear? Equal in what? Equal distance from an ideological mean? Equally authoritarian? Equally wrong from your perspective?
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Kim
@launch2growth
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@Aella_Girl
Evidence? Which groups are being tolerated more by the legal authorities? Who seems to be 'getting away with it'? Alternatively, which groups are being quickly judged as being trouble and a threat?
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Higgs
@DiracWinsAgain
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@Aella_Girl
Well, here's an objective way to measure
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@DiracWinsAgain
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All social movements should be subject to a cost-benefit analysis As a rule of thumb net social good of a movement is maximized when social cost of it's prescriptions equals the social cost of what it is trying to fix Let's apply this to alt-right and wokism 1/3
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Rodney Tickle
@RodneyTickle
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@Aella_Girl
They are similar - they’re both about hewing to a tribal identity rather than reasonable beliefs. The ridiculousness of the respective ideologies is precisely to demonstrate loyalty.
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@vivianjanes
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@Aella_Girl
This is SO confusing. Are you able to clarify what you mean by "woke"? Originally it was coined to refer to the state of being alert to the pervasiveness of racism, etc I'm struggling to understand what exactly the term is supposed to mean when wielded as a negative term.
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Bizarro Romney
@Bizarro_Romney
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@Aella_Girl
The human brain is remarkable in its ability to create abstractions from details. Thus, by removing the details from "work" and "alt-right" what you are actually comparing are patterns in your own neurons whose job is to find patterns and make sense of them using nearby patterns.
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