If people think you are a kind and morally decent person, then they are much more likely to find your arguments compelling. That's why the fight against illiberalism should be conducted with as spirit of fairness and cordiality. It's the best weapon we have.
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Replying to @EPoe187
Bad take. I have no doubt you are kind and decent, and I'm unpersuaded. More seriously, the issue we face is not that people don't believe the truth, but that they are afraid of angering the clergy of the new civic religion, facing everything from social sanction to prosecution.
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Most people know the broad outlines of the truth and support rules that we could mostly agree to. The problem is that they have to lie to get along with their colleagues/avoid being fired, and the more influential their positions, the more they have to lie.
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There are low information normies out there who really think colleges actively discriminate against blacks and that black crime rates are purely a product of racist over policing. But they only think that because journalists who know better lie in order to keep their jobs.
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...and because they love lying. Not all of them are doing it out of fear - in fact, I'd say the ones doing it out of fear are greatly outnumbered by the ones who do it for the thrill of power - "I'm obviously lying and I dare you to call me on it"
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