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Aella
@Aella_Girl
One cheap debate trick is reframing opposing opinions as having some sort of 'moral failure' and therefore foregoing all rights. For example, lots of attempts to shut down 'open debate' do so by framing the opposing opinions not as wrong, but as as "interruptive"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
This is the same as shutting down speech because it comes from someone outside of the class of people "morally approved" to express opinions about things - for example, refusing to allow "oppressor" classes to speak.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
To be clear, I'm not saying that the "oppressor" classes are necessarily right, but only that we shouldn't prevent people from speaking because of moral judgments. If your position is strong and you understand it well, then you shouldn't be threatened by by dissenters.
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@Aella_Girl
I also feel like the queer community suffers deeply from this problem. In most of my interactions with them they require very high 'moral signalling' before they agree to engage with any discussion or questions. They seem to feel highly threatened by dissent.
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Azura, daedric prince
@_azura85_
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@Aella_Girl
I don’t see how ‘black people aren’t people’ is an opinion. It’s wrong on such a basic level that treating it with validity in such a way is dangerous. I understand you want to keep an open mind about as many things as possible but you are wrong on this.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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I disagree. It is an opinion and I think it can be reasoned with. Did you ever hear about that one black guy who 'deconverted' like 200 neonazis because he simply went around and engaged with their opinions instead of shutting them down with moral righteousness?
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