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In order to detect bigotry you have to understand that it's fundamentally irrational. If you expect it to make sense, you'll miss it.
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"Rationalist skeptics" are especially bad at noticing bigotry because they disdain emotional intelligence. They read language as logical propositions. They're blind to subtext, connotation, innuendo.
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This works with good-faith rational debate, but not with bigotry. "Reason" and "logic" are only reflections on the surface of bigotry. Rationalists look into the lake and think they're gazing at clouds.
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A corollary of this is you can't reason someone out of bigotry. Facts and arguments are not relevant. Any argument you come up with looks like "not an argument" to them, because their position—their emotional position—is not rooted in rationality to begin with.
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Comparisons with why the James Randi prize used magicians alongside scientists. Scientists had problems detecting deliberate falesehoods.
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great comparison
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i guess that's why it is a "cannot compute" when i try to make any sense of what they say as someone with asperger
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"Vivisect the arguements of your opponents and lay bare the fleshy tumors of their bigotry"
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Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure. Henri Bergson The Creative Mind pg (I think) 78 or 80
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This is the good shit I want from Twitter
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Why do you put these words in contempt quotes?
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To protect them.
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That's a thing that kills me about skepticism. I'm a member of JREF and the Center for Inquiry, but it kills me how many skeptics are bigots
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Like, I go into full-body cringe every time someone thinks it's a good idea to give Richard Dawkins a live mic. Which he gets way too often.
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